On September 19, 1962, The Virginian made its debut on NBC, and 50 years later, this seminal series was honored at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles,...
The Mean-Nice Man
Before his extraordinary career as director of more than 500 hours of television, including 62 episodes of Dallas and 70 of Walker, Texas Ranger,...
The 5-Man Army
When the stunning Italian horror film Suspiria was released in 1977, audiences and critics cheered the arrival of a new genre stylist in...
February 2013 Events
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West. ART SHOW TRAPPINGS OF TEXASAlpine, TX, Starts Feb. 22: Nation’s second-oldest...
Inventive to a Fault the inventor and the tycoon
One was the “man who stopped time.” The other was the man who drove the golden spike. Photographer Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-action...
Object: Matrimony
Billed as an “entertaining look at the serious business of finding a husband or wife by mail-order in the wide-open days of the Old West,” Chris...
With Blood in Their Eyes
On February 10, 1918, brothers John and Tom Power, their father and a hired hand named Sisson engaged in—sorry O.K. Corral fans—the bloodiest...
Comanche Crusader
The first time LaDonna Harris got involved in a civil rights issue, she was not fighting on behalf of her Comanche people, but for her black...
Weapons of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Today’s American eats about 185 pounds of meat per year. The 32 humans and one large dog making up Lewis & Clark’s Corps of Discovery each...
Geronimo by Robert M. Utley
The newest offering from historian Robert M. Utley, Geronimo, is a masterpiece. While Geronimo was never a chief and never held the sway of Mangas...
Frontier “Forty Four”
Colt’s handsome Model of 1860 was a favorite on the frontier and saw use by notable Westerners such as Frank and Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin,...
Bruce Boxleitner
I just wrapped production on The Thanksgiving House for Hallmark. As many fans of True West already know, I’m also starring in the Western...