Articles Archive

A Time for Peace: Fort Lewis, Colorado, 1878-1891

by Linda Wommack | Mar 1, 2007

Smith brings to life the story of Fort Lewis located in southwestern Colorado. And what a story it is. Originally located on the banks of the San...

The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns

by Cynthia Green | Mar 1, 2007

This collection of 12 essays examines films from an ecocritical point of view. Ecocriticism generally means exploring the role of nature in a given...

Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier

by Chuck Lewis | Mar 1, 2007

Justice as meted out on the frontier still has a strange appeal at times, and Bill Neal has given us a big dose of it. A litany of old Texas murder...

Railroad’s First Lady

by Jana Bommersbach | Mar 1, 2007

If any man in 1901 had been asked about women in business, he’d have laughed and said they didn’t have any “business sense.” Besides, women were too...

Rock Hudson Screen Legend Collection

by Henry Cabot Beck | Mar 1, 2007

The Last Sunset (1961), a typically curious Robert Aldrich film, features the talents of the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo and Kirk Douglas. It’s...

Legendary Outlaws

by Henry Cabot Beck | Mar 1, 2007

Howard Hawks once said in an interview that he often visited fellow director John Ford as Ford neared the end of his life. He told the writer that...

Gunsmoke: The Director’s Collection

by Henry Cabot Beck | Mar 1, 2007

Serious Gunsmoke fans have been grousing about the curious way the show has been made available on DVD. Diehards think that the series, all 20 years...

Have Gun, Safe for Travel?

by Phil Spangenberger | Mar 1, 2007

In this post 9•11 world, where it is getting harder to travel with firearms or wear one as part of an Old West outfit, help is on the way! John...

Whiskey-Runnin’ Whoop-Up Trail

by Candy Moulton | Mar 1, 2007

The landscape along the Whoop-Up Trail was “rolling prairie, cut up occasionally by collies [coulees]—covered with short, dried up grass and prickly...