“It’s just nice to live in a community where you’re not rushing every place you go.” The Lakota Sioux and the Cheyenne fought over what eventually...

My favorite Old West artifact at the Clark County Museum is a southern Paiute bow and arrow collected in the Vegas Valley about 1900. It is a...

Rex Rideout is a multi-instrumentalist who travels the West with groups of varying sizes, playing historical music from the 19th century. In Cowboys...

John Wayne was in such a fertile period in his career when he made The Comancheros—coming off Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo, John Ford’s The Horse...

Quentin Tarantino is making good on his long-standing promise to direct a Spaghetti Western. The script for Django Unchained has been delivered, and...

The Warrior’s Way is a cross between a Western and an epic Samurai tale, telling the story of the world’s greatest swordsman-assassin, Yang, the...

The pleasure of watching Rango at home, especially as this terrific-looking Blu-ray DVD, is catching all the sly asides, the throwaway lines and...

Mars needs cowgirls. Whether the aliens have much interest in deadly Daniel Craig or leathery old Harrison Ford has not been established, but...

Western Heritage, edited by Paul Andrew Hutton (University of Oklahoma Press, $19.95), is an excellent selection of prize-winning magazine articles...

Britt Johnson, a former slave, is put to the ultimate test to reclaim his family after a band of Kiowa takes them during the Elm Creek raid in 1864...

Following his hunting trail on Morning Peak Mountain, Jubal Young hears the explosive finale of a land wrangle between his farmer Pa and the...