When Shane Cooper (Ryan Kwanten) signs up as the constable in the sleepy outback town of Red Hill,he misplaces his handgun on his first day—never a...

When Shane Cooper (Ryan Kwanten) signs up as the constable in the sleepy outback town of Red Hill,he misplaces his handgun on his first day—never a...
The Western changed in 1969, and that evolutionary shift can be credited to three movies, each unique, each as good as the other two and each one a...
The guy who ripped me off the most was the late writer/director Richard Brooks. I adapted Jack (Shane) Schaefer’s historical book The Great...
Tanque Verde Ranch’s history of bandits and cattlemen, mixed with Apache warriors, Spanish explorers and gold prospectors, makes for interesting...
Teddy Roosevelt packed one of his 1876 Winchesters through a true Wild West adventure. During his stint as a rancher in the Dakota Badlands in the...
This is surreal-and, no, I’m not stoned on peyote. I’m at a Cache, Oklahoma, trading post, a 1970s-era cinderblock building full of ... well, not...
As a volunteer at Arizona’s Lost Dutchman State Park, Mitzi Rinehart thought the most oft-asked question she’d ever answer was “Where’s the Gold?”...
James Coryells’s sweet tooth proved fatal. On May 27, 1837, the Texas Ranger and four or five fellow Rangers headed out from Fort Milam, a frontier...
Cowboys had little time for breakfast, which must be eaten quickly and with no fuss. “Each man, as he comes up, grasps a tin cup and plate from the...
One of the most unpredictable, harrowing, sometimes embarrassing and always painful misfortunes that a cowboy could expect in the Old West was being...
Eschewing the bustle for the hustle, rodeo cowgirls donned long, wide-legged...
Frederic Remington’s bronzes took in most of the top Western art bids at Altermann’s auction on November 14, 2010, yet the bottom five of the top 10...