A gambling spirit is what inspired many people to head West in the first place. After working hard on a cattle drive or digging in a mine, men...
Writing the Wicked West
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To Tame A Land
Orphaned by Indian raiders, Ryan Tyler would have grown up wild save for the steadying hand of Logan Pollard, a wandering man with a mysterious past...
Rock Island’s Rare Rig
Severs is a well-known name in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and a holster rig tied to that family has set a world record. In downtown Muskogee, you can...
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...
UPDATES: The Lone Bandit and Shalako
UPDATES: The Lone Bandit and Shalako We received some feedback about our June 2007 ATM column: Writing in about the cowboy on horseback who robbed a...
In the Old West, did men carrying six-shooters leave one chamber empty as a safety measure?
In the Old West, did men carrying six-shooters leave one chamber empty as a safety measure? Bob Wood Hugo, Minnesota It’s likely that at least some...
DEADWOOD: The complete Third Season
Like The Winning of Barbara Worth, Deadwood tells the story of a community on the edge of the world, a couple of bad breaks away from extinction, in...
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Half or more of the fun in watching this 1979 TV special is seeing the actors entering the set—a Western saloon, of course, on some Hollywood...
Gary Cooper MGM Movie Legends Collection
The production of The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) offers a great deal of history, not the least of which is the moment when the world met Gary...
WAYNE’S WORLD
It’s not easy to make a choice among the innumerable John Wayne box sets and single editions commemorating his 100th birthday. The market is flooded...
The Vengeance Brand
Four injured Civil War veterans meander toward California at war’s end. Without a well-defined protagonist or a clear plot in this book, the reader...
Courting Trouble
The setting for this Christian Romance is 1874 Corsicana, Texas. The heroine is Essie Spreckelmeyer, a tall, skinny, opinionated 30-year-old...