DVD & TV Series Anne Hillerman The author discusses her father’s legacy, her 10th Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel, and how Dark Winds blow...
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Henry C. Parke
The Pretendians
From Apache To Cree To Mohawk, here are some great pretenders that never were. In 1980, on a lunch break from our security guard gigs, I...
A Century of Tribal Disenrollment
First the Dawes Commission, Now Casino Tribes, Profit by Erasing Indian Heritage Starting in 1887, The Dawes Commission tried to...
Val Kilmer’s ‘Billy’
Billy himself would have approved The late Val Kilmer’s acting career delved into films of so many genres—from Top Secret to Top Gun, from...
Western Movies
AMERICAN PRIMEVAL GOOD AND EVIL The Mountain Meadow Massacre is center-stage in this brutal and enthralling pioneer docudrama American...
Mormons in the Movies
From Mormonsploitation to edification, Latter-Day Saints Cinema runs the gamut The early screen portrayals of Mormonism were not...
An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
She assembled artisans, Historians and linguists to keep their three Nations’ portrayals accurate Not so long ago, in many Western...
Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
Does American Primeval Tell The True Story? The two most compelling characters in American Primeval are, not coincidentally, the two...
Kris Kristofferson— A Texan at Oxford
The scholar, songwriter, pilot also acted in dozens of Westerns If he’d done nothing but write Me and Bobby McGee, and Sunday Morning...
Best of the West 2025: Western Movies, DVDs, and TV Shows
The Passion Projects of the Modern Western A Year of Underrated Excellence I saw two Westerns in theaters in 2024: Horizon: An American Saga Chapter...
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen Fifty years after its first release, the film’s recent version is considered the best....
Wyatt Earp at 30
Screenwriter Dan Gordon reveals the real story behind the making of the blockbuster biopic. When it comes to the events in Tombstone on October 26,...