Walter Hill, well-known for his Westerns, is making his recording debut at the age of 77. Hill wrote and narrated The Cowboy Iliad, the story of a shootout that occurred in Newton, Kansas, in 1871 and its legendary aftermath of violence and controversy.
Hill began his film career as a screenwriter, notably working with filmmakers Sam Peckinpah (The
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In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Did Old West Lawmen Carry their own Weapons?
- Did She or Didn’t She?
- Toppenish, Washington
- Did Doc Holliday “Open the Ball” Behind the O.K. Corral?
- Natural Disasters in Ancient Times
- What are the Origins of the Code of the West?
- Prehistoric Americans and Science
- Canyon Springs Ambush
- What History Has Taught Me: Walter Hill
- The Old Pueblo’s Historic Cuisine
- After the Battle for the Alamo, Did Any of the Wives or Children of Crockett, Bowie or Travis Visit the Site?
- Bringing Law and Order
- Old Wrist-Breaker
- Outhouses In Hotels
- Did the Punitive Expedition influence the start of the Immigration and Naturalization Service/U.S. Border Patrol?
- George Catlin Paints the West
- Bad Bill Longley
- What Can you Tell me about Joaquin Murrieta?
- Burial Site: Battle of the Alamo
- Guns That Won the West
- Butch Cassidy Would Do a Double Take
- What Exactly is Locoweed?