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Remaking TV’s Big Valley
A film based on ABC’s 1965-69 Big Valley is the brainchild of producer Kate Edelman Johnson, the daughter of the late Louis Edelman, who co-created...
On the Trading Post Trail
They were cultural centers, these trading posts on the Navajo reservation. “A community place for people to meet, get their mail, maybe make a phone...
Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 4, Volume 1
On a dark and stormy night, sheets of rain pounded the window of Paladin’s suite in San Francisco’s swank Hotel Carlton. Inside, the...
The Man Who Would be Clint
When one tries to describe Clint Eastwood, it’s difficult to avoid hyperbole, even when stating the simple facts of the man, as an actor and as a...
The Book of Murdock
Loren D. Estleman, winner of five Spur awards, is known for his snappy writing and well-developed characters. In The Book of Murdock, Estleman...
Roy Bean’s Gold
W.R. Garwood writes a fictional, first-person account of Judge Roy Bean’s early days before he became known as the “Hanging Judge.” In Roy Bean’s...
Return to the Arrowhead
Having spent most of his life working on cattle operations in Colorado, Eugene C. Vories writes realistically from experience. In Return to the...
A Mind-Boggling Casa of History
It takes a special house to hold the 8,000 books and the priceless photographs and Indian objects collected by our Emeritus Publisher Robert...
A Modern Stagecoach Adventure
How comfortable would the ride really be inside a Concord stagecoach? I’m not sure if I buy into Ed Heimann’s claim that the Concord is the “Rolls...
John Wayne’s Six-Gun Clone
Arguably, the most iconic firearm of the silver screen West is the Peacemaker Colt, with the mellow ivory-looking stocks, so often carried by John...
Digging Up San Jacinto
All that’s left now is an old cistern sitting in a pasture where cows graze-a tree growing out of it, standing as the only sentinel to this place...