The Homesman will be Tommy Lee Jones’s next project, and, like in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Jones will act, produce and direct....
A Black Cowboy Opera
The bounty hunter film, They Die By Dawn, is “set in 1890 with every single black actor in Hollywood, swagged out cowboy style,” says Jeymes Samuel,...
Natalie Portman’s New Western
Jane Got a Gun will star producer and actress Natalie Portman, who recently won an Academy Award for her role in Black Swan. This story centers on...
Django Unchained Preview
A preview of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is now available on YouTube. The other big news is that Kurt Russell, who worked with Tarantino in...
Jeremiah Johnson
What makes John “Liver-Eatin’” Johnson unique among Mountain Men is his long feud with the Crow Indians, which resulted in as many as 300 dead Crow...
Dawn Rider
Dawn Rider has whiskers on its whiskers; the movie started life in 1931 as an Oater starring Tom Tyler, followed with a John Wayne remake in 1935,...
Shoot-out at Hanska Slough
September 21, 1876 Four fleeing outlaws, believed to be the robbers of the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, slip into a slough on foot...
Bully Country
I lived in Texas too long. The Lone Star State is all about Big, Biggest, Best. What’s the first thing that strikes me as I make my way toward...
Gary Zaboly
Mountain Men, unsettled land and lawless characters first kindled this artist’s desire to create credible illustrations that would preserve Old West...
How were stagecoach teams selected?
How were stagecoach teams selected? Sammy Leonard Brentwood, California Good ol’ Charley Eckhardt, a regular on the Ask the Marshall Forum, stepped...
What do you know about a southern Arizona rancher named Pete Kitchen?
What do you know about a southern Arizona rancher named Pete Kitchen? Barry WaldbaumCentereach, New York In a sense, Pete Kitchen represented...
During stagecoach holdups, did outlaws catch the coach on a dead run, while shooting the armed guard, driver and passengers?
During stagecoach holdups, did outlaws catch the coach on a dead run, while shooting the armed guard, driver and passengers? Michael J....