If we can be expected to accept animated cowboy chameleons and marauding aliens in our newfangled Western movie world, we may as well toss in...
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True Grit
The 2010 True Grit may not have grabbed any Oscars, but it did rake in more money than any Western since Dances With Wolves. The DVD and Blu-ray...
Stars in My Crown
The 1950 movie Stars in My Crown stars Joel McCrea as a Civil War vet, Josiah Gray, who arrives in a Tenneesee town as the new pastor. The story is...
Ambush
Robert Taylor’s second Western after Billy the Kid, 1950’s Ambush, is an underrated cavalry picture. Hard boiled characters were everywhere in that...
Tim Holt Western Classics
Warner Bros. has issued the first of what I hope will be several Tim Holt collections. This five-disc, 10-movie set shows Holt at the beginning of...
Home on the Rango
Since the movie Rango opened nationally in March, the critics have struggled to get a fix on it. They can’t seem to make up their minds whether...
Lynn Anderson
In 1966, I ran for Miss Rodeo California in Salinas. I didn’t win the contest. Won the “Horsemanship.” Won the “Written Test.” Placed Fourth . . ....
Pocatello, Idaho
“The cowboy factor seems to be a common thread in our daily life,” admits Margaret A. Barrett, director of the Bannock County Historical Museum. “We...
So, Who was Dan Dedrick?
His real name was Daniel Charles Dietrich. Born of Pennsylvania Dutch stock in Indiana on January 25, 1847, he grew up near Plymouth, Kansas....
Frontier Fort Favorite
After receiving many e-mails from Equitrekking viewers who raved about their experiences riding at Fort Robinson, I had to find out why this...
Tracking Roosevelt’s River Pirates
Theodore Roosevelt stood fuming at his Elkhorn Ranch on the west bank of the Little Missouri River in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. Thieves had...
Skirts and Spurs
Cowgirls have often forged friendships at ranches across the American West. Whether they were part of a multi-generational ranching family or 1920s...