Coming in November from the University of Wisconsin Press is the first biography of director John Sturges, who was responsible for Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Magnificent Seven, Hour of the Gun and many other remarkable films. Author Glenn Lovell states in the introduction of Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges, that he thinks Sturges has been somewhat overlooked as an artist, and that he belongs in the same discussions as Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher. Sturges certainly ma

November/December 2008
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Oklahoma Rough Rider (Nonfiction)
- Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory (Nonfiction)
- The American Far West in the 20th Century (Nonfiction)
- The Long Knives are Crying (Fiction)
- Adelsverein: The Gathering (Fiction)
- Ride the Desperate Trail (Fiction)
- From a Distance (Fiction)
- Sagebrush and Paintbrush (Children’s Book)
- A Priest, a Prostitute & Some Other Early Texans (Nonfiction)
- Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Nonfiction)
- Kemo Sabe Unmasked
- Outlaw Trail Collection
- Stranger on Horseback
- Radio Westerns
- Creepy Bastards
- Sturges Biography
- A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
- Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
More In This Issue
- San Diego, California
- Worst Turkeys of the West
- Dashing Through the Snow
- A Good Enough Mine
- Retreat at the Homestead Ranch
- Paul Andrew Hutton
- History, Not For Sale
- Preservation: Hold the Fort
- That Cowboy Stench
- Centennial Winchester Sells High
- Following the Wild Bunch
- Sheriff’s Sale
- Gloomy Blumy’s Beautiful World