Western these days don’t often open in the heart of the summer tentpole season; Appaloosa and 3:10 to Yuma, the two biggest Westerns of recent...
A Dark Circus
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Stay on Target When Collecting Gun Shots
How many times have you looked at an antique photo and thought, “If this old photo could only talk?” Well, they do, in a way. As a collector of...
Dreams of Gold on the Starvation Trail
Gold seekers intent on finding the quickest ways to the Colorado gold fields forged the Smoky Hill Trail, but many of them paid a terrible price in...
Calgary’s “Exotic” Stampede
As I walked among the concession stands at Stampede Park, I was continually surprised by what I saw and smelled; fried Oreos, BBQ ribs, Tornado...
Joe McNeill
I first became interested in the history of Western film after moving to Sedona, Arizona, in 2001. My interest in Westerns jump-started when I could...
Bandera, Texas
When you ask Genie Strickland, a fifth-generation Banderan, how a town of 957 people can produce so much Western heritage entertainment, she breaks...
The Digital Frontier
On vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a stiff President Calvin Coolidge cut a comical figure, wearing cowboy boots and a 10-gallon hat, as...
Ethnic Fare
“Those were exciting days. A regular pageant of non-descript people, coming and going, all the time. “I have but to close my eyes to live it all...
What Would Billy Say?
With the convoluted and contested efforts during the past decade to dig up Billy the Kid, we wondered what a Billy the Kid expert might ask the...
A New Comanche Hero
Johnny D. Boggs continues to give us some of the best Westerns of his career. He hits the readers’ interest dead center with two fast-paced, but...
Wildwood Stables
Grades 3-7: No matter how much classmates tease her, nothing interests eighth-grader Taylor Henry as much as horses. In Daring to Dream, when a...
Blue-Eyed Devil
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back after their wild ride in Appaloosa in Robert Parker’s Blue-Eyed Devil. This time they are on the wrong side...