Everybody who loves movies has a wish list of pictures they’d like to own, that have not yet been made available as DVDs. Which is why Warner...

Gunsmoke: The Third Season, Volume 2
If a single year in the life of Gunsmoke could be responsible for winning the show its place as the “Greatest TV Western Series of All Time” by...

Aged Beauties
Handling an antique, iron gray firearm stimulates thoughts and images of a long lost time. One can visualize hard use and wild days on the American...

Looping Across Kit Carson’s Southwest
A banner whips in the wind over the main drag as I drive into Taos, New Mexico, and I figure that Kit Carson is getting his due. I should have known...

All Roads Lead to Chaco Canyon
"This is the best place on the planet. If you don’t come back, there’s something wrong with you.” These words spoken by G.B. Cornucopia, a 20-year...

Preservation: Remember the Alamo (Replica)
Remember the Alamo (Replica) John Wayne starred in 1960’s The Alamo, filmed on a 500-acre set that took two years to build. When the actors and...

Brimstone
Robert B. Parker’s lawmen for hire, Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, trail the troubled Allie French to the town of Brimstone in Parker’s Appaloosa...

Death Mask
Cotton Smith’s Death Mask follows a trail of ghostly revenge. After ex-Texas Ranger Tanneman Rose is jailed for bank robbery, he passes a death...

Hard Winter
Johnny D. Boggs’s Hard Winter has all the impact of that deadly winter of 1886-87 with its murderous cold, hellish gales and impassable drifts. But...

Homeplace Ranch
Where a family of seven once bunked together in 1912, three modern-day cowboys now sleep. The Canadian Pacific Railway’s entrance in 1883 and the...

Uncle Chick, Me and the Christmas Tree
The aging Chevrolet Carryall van turned off the Old Black Canyon Highway at Poland Junction between Mayer and Humboldt, Arizona, and began to follow...

Shooting Stars of the Small Screen
Teacher and historian Douglas Brode has published studies such as Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment, as well as...