Sopranos creator David Chase is working with HBO on a new miniseries, Ribbon of Dreams, about the early days of Hollywood. The two principal...
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Colt’s Last Wild West Six-Gun
The Old West may have been gone by the early 1900s, but the West was still a place where a man needed to be “well heeled.” It was the era of the...
Nocturnes Hit Million-Dollar Marks
The moonlit views the artist saw from his skiff as he paddled near his retreat, Inglenook Island, inspired Frederic Remington’s first nighttime...
Love Will Find a Way
July 25, 1853 Saddling up at 2 a.m. Harry Love and his fellow California Rangers ride out of their rugged mountain camp and make their way to...
1972’s Ulzana’s Raid
Ulzana’s Raid is one of the rare movies that has a particularly strong theme—violence: what does it mean, and how is it used? To perfectly...
The Civil War
Michael Shaara’s novel The Killer Angels inspired Ken Burns to make his documentary, The Civil War. When Burns’s series first aired on PBS for five...
Bobby Bridger
The craziest thing that ever happened to me at a performance occurred during a full-company musical production of Seekers of the Fleece in Cody,...
El Jovencito
As blazing timbers crashed downward, destroying a once lovely adobe home and the dreams of its occupants, an era of hostility and bloodshed also...
The Civil War on the Silver Screen
For fans of Western movies, the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War kicked off a few months early, when True Grit opened at...
Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899
Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899, by Clifford R. Caldwell and Ron DeLord (History Press, $29.99), focuses on the 800 or so Texas lawmen (“good and bad”) who...
The Suppressed History of America
Suppressed history indeed! In The Suppressed History of America, sparks fly from Xaviant Haze and Paul Schrag’s documented raid upon America’s...
Pansy’s History
Margaret E.P. Gordon lived a century (1866-1966) and documented the changes and progress she witnessed in her amazing life. In the volume Pansy’s...