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...
UPDATES: The Lone Bandit and Shalako
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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...
A Fistful of DVDs
If anybody needs convincing that the boomers still wield considerable cultural and economic clout, consider this: The Beatles still rule, as...
The Great Houses of Chaco
Chaco is a majestic ancient city in the forbidding landscape of northwest New Mexico. The ruins are famous for the five-story stone houses built...
The Look of the Old West
A mini encyclopedia of the Old West, this book is a great reading adventure as well as a handy tool. Just about anything you can imagine in the Old...
The Secret War For Texas
Texans have long vilified James Grant, a Scot with grandiose ambitions of forming the state of northern Mexico. He depleted weapons, munitions and...