While nearly everyone knows the song ''The Streets of Laredo,'' not everyone knows it was actually a reworked old Irish tune called “The Cowboy’s...

The author’s easy prose takes his readers along the journey of Will Rogers’ life. Not just a humorist, movie star or newspaper columnist, Rogers was...

Westward Migration and Manifest Destiny brought hundreds of thousands of folks out West, not the least of which was the cowboy. Roughly one in four...

Thank God—a book that looks past Tombstone to share the exploits of the West! Respected historian Dugan tells the story of a small-time Midwestern...

Let’s get this straight—author Herda channels Doc, who tells his tale in his own words. It could be an interesting approach, except the deadly...

As folks are being reintroduced to the Western classic True Grit, a topic at some dinner tables has been the appeal of executions, especially since...

Seven Men from Now is the first, best and least-known of the seven films Producer-star Randolph Scott and Director Budd Boetticher made together....

Turner Classic Movies is going to celebrate Roy Rogers’ 100th birthday this year as part of its annual Classic Film Festival. The restored prints of...

Turner Classic Movies has released a two-disc, four-movie collection of John Ford films. The collection features 1949’s She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,...

By early 1959, when these episodes of the number one show on TV aired, all three networks were loading their prime-time slots with Westerns that...

Clint Walker never really made sense; he was six feet, six inches tall and made average men look and feel like Mickey Rooney standing next to him....