How often can you find Doc Holliday, Quanah Parker and John Wilkes Booth in the same story? In The Legend of Hell’s Gate, actor, director and writer...

Tarantino’s “Southern” Western
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
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...

Rango
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...

The “Heart” of Cowboys & Aliens
Mars needs cowgirls. Whether the aliens have much interest in deadly Daniel Craig or leathery old Harrison Ford has not been established, but...

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Wrangler Winners
Western Heritage, edited by Paul Andrew Hutton (University of Oklahoma Press, $19.95), is an excellent selection of prize-winning magazine articles...

Killed by Indians 1871
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...

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

The First Dance
Once again six-time Western Writers of America Spur award winner Richard S. Wheeler shows how smooth prose and careful historical accuracy, combined...

Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde is America’s newest outlaw lady as the mysterious Ella in the Sci-Fi Western Cowboys & Aliens. Wilde’s Ella is a throwback Western...

The Sierra Packers
Jedediah Smith made the first reported crossing of California’s unpredictable and treacherous Sierra Nevada Mountains. Deep snows had forced him and...

A Screaming Session at Cowboys & Aliens
I was in Taos, New Mexico, in May 2010 lecturing on Davy Crockett when executive producer Denis Stewart tracked me down. Stewart, an old pro who had...