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Best Reads (And They Aren’t All Westerns)
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The Beecher’s Island Boys
I haven’t seen fog this thick since ... well, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen fog this thick, unless you count the time I walked into the room across...
Rifle Packin’ in the Old West
While the six-gun may have reigned as king of the silver screen West, in the real Old West, it was a different story. True, the handy six-shooter...
Best Reads (And They Aren’t All Westerns)
“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers,” said Steven Spielberg, the man who first revealed his instinct for a good story...
A Ranger War & Billy the Kid
-"That avaricious Americanized way of thinking measured individual achievement in terms of acquisition. Rapaciously conquering and dominating the...
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
The Civil War was traumatic to most Americans, but it was a double whammy to the Cherokees. Already badly split into warring factions over...
A People at War
This is not, exactly, a history of the homefront during the Civil War. Its subtitle, “Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War,” includes the...
Seraphim Falls
While Seraphim Falls has all the trappings of a traditional Western, at heart, it’s a metaphoric chase picture, more Les Miserables than Last Train...
A Girl is a Gun
Like most French film directors associated with the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, Luc Moullet adored the American “primitives,” directors like Sam...
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Citizens of Cheyenne definitely know what it takes to “Live the Legend.” Millions have been poured into renovation projects of the Union Pacific...
Did Bat Masterson actually have to use a cane after being shot by Sgt. Melvin King in 1876, or is this just part of the legend?
Did Bat Masterson actually have to use a cane after being shot by Sgt. Melvin King in 1876, or is this just part of the legend? Rick Austin East...
Why do so many Westerns show bacon and beans as the campfire meal? And how did the characters cook the beans so fast?
Why do so many Westerns show bacon and beans as the campfire meal? And how did the characters cook the beans so fast? John Howard Topeka, Kansas...