Charles Eldridge Griffin’s memoir, Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill, makes an interesting sidebar to the biography of William F. Cody and the...
Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill
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Outlaw Tales of Nebraska
Among the 12 outlaws featured in Outlaw Tales of Nebraska is James “Doc” Middleton Riley, a horse thief who actually gained admiration! From the...
Forts, Fights, and Frontier Sites
Bringing history forward is what Candy Moulton has done with Forts, Fights, and Frontier Sites. Detailed maps and clever symbols indicate if the...
The Truth to Chaco Canyon
Scholars and archaeologists may debate why the great Pueblo Indian society existed in Chaco Canyon, but everybody agrees on one thing: It’s in the...
The Seeds of Navajo Soul
“Tears” from the album Spirit of a Woman by Radmilla Cody / Courtesy Canyon Records License #2010-067. All rights reserved. Visit Canyon Records to...
Uno, Dos, Tres!
October 28, 1884 While visiting Upper Frisco Plaza in western Socorro County, New Mexico, 19-year-old Elfego Baca is asked to arrest a drunken...
Convict Cowgirls
Finally, a documentary has been made with the True West reader in mind. Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo will be touring cities through late October...
Louis L’Amour Western Collection
A middling Western, 1971’s Catlow is worth watching to see Yul Brynner tapping an inner rascal that no one even imagined existed. Brynner spent so...
Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex, the 2010 movie, was a disaster at the box office. But Jonah Hex is a fine movie, in some respects; Josh Brolin’s performance as the lead...
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven is a terrifically satisfying Western, and 2010 marks its 50th anniversary. The picture launched several actors, including...
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
In October, Warner Brothers is launching its Humphrey Bogart collection ($99.98) that will box up 42 of Bogart’s choicest pictures on 12 discs,...
“That Cockeyed Little Old Thing”
The Rounders was Director and Screenwriter Burt Kennedy’s first shot at making a Western comedy, and it’s one of his best. Other movies about aging...