Writing about Western history as a not-by-a-damn-sight Robert Utley, traveling across the West as a not-by-a-damn-sight Candy Moulton, absorbing...
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Kemo Sabe Unmasked
The history of the Texas Rangers is the history of Western movies. When Broncho Billy Anderson told director Edwin S. Porter that he could ride like...
Outlaw Trail Collection
Back in the early 1970s, when a handful of Country singers and songwriters decided that they could bypass the stranglehold of the Nashville...
Stranger on Horseback
Every so often a Western sneaks up on my blind side and surprises me. I’ve always respected Jacques Tourneur as a director, and his better known...
Radio Westerns
Speaking of Rangers on the radio, Old Time Radio Catalog (otrcat.com) is a company that offers a huge variety of radio programs on disc for...
Creepy Bastards
Dwight Yoakam and Kris Kristofferson are two singers who have played complete bastards in any number of movies. So the prospect of the two of them...
Sturges Biography
Coming in November from the University of Wisconsin Press is the first biography of director John Sturges, who was responsible for Gunfight at the...
A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
To write this excellent biography of John Muir, Donald Worster zealously ransacked the letters and journals of the great, self-taught naturalist....
Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
Trials by “Judge Lynch” were euphemisms for mob vengeance from colonial America to the frontier West. This scholarly study analyzes the documented...
Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Nonfiction)
In 1953, twelve Spanish Colonial-period settlements were inundated by Falcon Reservoir’s rising waters—the U.S. and Mexican government’s effort to...
San Diego, California
“Oh, what’s to become of all my beautiful seven deadly sins? Jesus!” “Exactly,” Asmodeo responded to the tail end of his boss Lucifer’s enraged...
Needles and Cats
In 1985, shortly before we were to set off on a vacation to Argentina, Dan read Larry Pointer's In Search of Butch Cassidy and learned that Butch...