What is the title of the beautiful song sung by the villagers who lined the road as the outlaws ride out of town in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch?...
Who was Will McLaury, the Texas lawyer and brother of “Cowboys” Frank and Tom, who were gunned down in Tombstone? Glade Fawson Riverton, Utah...
What Western features an outlaw gang in Seymour, Indiana, and what do you know about the gang? Helen and Dick Mullis Melbourne, Florida True West’s...
Paul Hutton Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, Paul Hutton is the author of Phil Sheridan and His Army and the...
The story behind the Scots at the Alamo “I was fascinated with the role the Scots played in early Texas history.... I used this connection to tell a...
In this book, the Rocky Mountains somehow includes Arizona. Jan MacKell’s observations of the Earp women and the “control of prostitution” for the...
These women, many teenagers themselves, often faced unruly children. You have to admire the pluck of these frontier women. Working with wit, quick...
A popular writer of the early 1900s, Foote would gain fame much later, in 1979, when Mary Ellen Williams-Walsh exposed Wallace Stegner’s liberal...
As unlikely as it seems, a remake of the very terrific John Wayne Oater, Angel and the Badman, is due out in 2009, starring Lou Diamond Phillips...
Watching No Country For Old Men once again, this time as a DVD, only serves to remind me how thoroughly terrific Joel & Ethan Coen are at mixing...
An interesting book, Circle the Wagons! is a deliberately controversial one, combining early Western movies with actual events in an effort to...
In this first biography of Agnes Lake, the woman finally steps out of the shadows of her famous husband Wild Bill Hickok. Working through Agnes’s...