This Burbank-based company specializes in fitting DVD packages with bells and whistles, like last year’s John Ford collection, which contained the deluxe two-disc editions of The Searchers (1956) and Stagecoach (1939). Western-wise, they’re currently refitting Howard Hawks’ classic Rio Bravo (1959) and Mark Rydell’s The Cowboys (1972). Rio Bravo will be another double edition. Besides a newly remastered print, it contains a nearly 50-minute conversation with Peter Bogdanovich, Walter
May 2007
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Black Hats
- Tough Towns
- The Great Mormon Cricket Fly-Fishing Festival
- Spanakopita Western
- Cisco Kid
- The Big Valley Season Two, Vol. 1
- Wild Indigo
- The Canyon of Bones
- A Fate Worse Than Death
- Arizona Sheriffs
- John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman
- Yellowstone Denied
- Rio Bravo/ The Cowboys
- Frontiers
- Boomtown Saloons
- Hard and Noble Lives
- Broken Trail Spin-Offs
- Moses Taite’s War
- An Endless Attraction to Billy
- From Hondo to Big Ike
- On Location!
- The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
- Vengeance Moon
- Texas Showdown
- Under the Sunset Rim
- Sunset Trail
- Give Me Mountains For My Horses
- Spreading the Word
- Bandidas
- The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
- BALLOTS AND BULLETS: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas
- Lone Star Lawman
- Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town
- Following the Royal Road
- Great Train Robberies of the Old West
More In This Issue
- The Tale of the Empty Chamber
- Stories Behind the Song
- On the Trail of John Wayne
- Honoring Mothers and Fathers
- Weapons as Art
- Preservation: Splish Splash Bath
- Not a Leg to Stand On
- Collecting the West Roundup
- Rendezvous Deja Vu
- Deadwood, SD
- Harry Young, a bartender at the #10 Saloon in Deadwood, was present when Wild Bill Hickok was killed. In a 1915 book, Young claimed that Hickok lost his last hand to William Massie, Kings full to four 7s. So what is the source of the Dead Man’s Hand of Ac
- What can you tell us about the movie lot called Cudia City in Phoenix, Arizona? The TV series 26 Men was shot there.
- I own an 1883 photo taken in Hunter’s Hot Springs, Montana, that supposedly shows Wyatt and Morgan Earp, Teddy Roosevelt, Butch Cassidy, Judge Roy Bean and other notables. Is it legit?
- In El Paso on August 19, 1895, did John Selman shoot Hardin in the back of the head, as many believe, or did he shoot him in the face, as Selman swore?
- Where can I find a definitive biography on Jim Miller?
- Sacking Lawrence
- Top 10 Western Museums of 2007
- What insurance companies cover Old West re-enactment groups?
- Tracking the Great Bear
- One Man With Courage Makes A Majority
- No Compromise with War
- Ugly Ducklings of Frontier Six-shooters
- Preservation: Roll Along, Wagon Train
- Queen of Country Swing’s Tough Mamas
- Sacking Lawrence
- A Gun Exchanged for Billy the Kid’s Mare
- A Man That Won’t Bend
- St. Joseph, MO
- Stories Behind the Song
- Trailing the First Indian Person
- ATM Update: Hunnewell, KS
- What can you tell me about Cimarron, New Mexico?
- If John Wayne was granted deferment from military service during WWII because he had a large family, wouldn’t this make him a draft dodger?
- What can you tell me about hat cords in the frontier military?
- What pistol did Wild Bill Hickok favor?