I found this book to be as equally ponderous and intellectually pretentious as the subject movie was. Fawell constructs what is essentially a...
THE ART OF SERGIO LEONE’S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
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The Salish people and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
This book on the Salish Indians of Montana, and their Pend d’Oreille kin, is the result of many hands from the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Cultural...
The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899
This book is a beautifully done photo history of the Klondike Gold Rush—what the author refers to as one of the strangest mass movements in history....
WESTERN TRADITIONS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Frederic Remington and Charles Russell are introduced here as the grandfathers of contemporary Western art. Their lives and examples of their work...
Preserving an “Uninhabitable Wasteland”
An “uninhabitable wasteland.” That’s what Army explorer R.B. Marcy called the wilds of west Texas. Most folks took the captain at his word and...
Bad Guy Tracks Good
Whether reporting on actual artifacts or proverbial, W.C. Jameson’s research scoops a prospector’s pan of information about locating lost treasures....
A Light in the Wilderness
This is a true story. One day, in 1907, C.W. and Olin Light—brothers and owners of the F.M. Light & Sons clothing store in Steamboat Springs,...
Noonan’s Last Stand
The proud slayers of a huge grizzly are memorialized in one of the most famous photographs in all of Western history. By August 7, 1874, when the...
Following Wyatt Earp
Heavily armed men are lying in wait for me when I pull into the Holiday Inn Express—enough to make me nervous. I try to make it to my room...
A Trail of Two Cities
I’m sneaking across the Missouri River, as it may be safer traveling incognito. It seems I ticked off a resident or two the last time I mentioned...
Lost Riders of the Segregated Cinema
They were the trailblazers of their day—a visionary group of actors, writers, directors, producers and businessmen whose stage was the old Negro...
From Outlaw Hideouts to Cozy Cabins
Ned Christie’s cabin was under attack. More than two dozen lawmen surrounded the Indian Territory home in November 1892. They were trying to capture...