Eighty years ago, director John Ford and screenwriter Dudley Nichols combined their talents, and those of star character…
Butch & Sundance & Pike & Dutch How two films from the summer of ’69 changed Westerns forever.
Every period picture, consciously or not, reflects two periods, the time in which the story is set, and the time the fil…
Hartley of the West A New England actress reflects on how she went to California and became a cowgirl.
“I knew that it was something special; Sam (Peckinpah) was terrific, everybody was terrific, especially Randolph S…
Deadwood Déjà Vu After a 13-year hiatus, the cast and crew re-team to finish the tale.
“It’s Doc Cochran’s office—I’m sure of it! And there’s the Bella Union!” Over a decade after HBO’s Deadwood had le…
Clearing the Gunsmoke Prolific teleplay and screenplay writer Jim Byrnes is still writing 61 years after his first sale.
With 635 television episodes, 480 radio shows and five movies, no other series in any genre has equaled the longevity of…
Kevin Costner The award-winning actor, director and producer reflects on Silverado, Yellowstone, his new Netflix series The Highwaymen, and on acting and his love of the western.
Back in 1989, when Life Magazine asked Hollywood legends like James Stewart, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland to pick …
Rescued From Oblivion— The Forsaken Westerns Western enthusiast Bob Terry has brought lost Old West TV pilots and anthologies to audiences worldwide on YouTube.
A Western TV fan stumbling upon the Forsaken Westerns Channel on YouTube might well conclude that they’d entered an alte…
Morgan Woodward The villain Matt Dillon couldn’t stop killin’.
Actor Morgan Woodward is known for many things, most of them unpleasant: he’s so good at playing bad that, “although it …
Max Evans in Hollywood At 93 years old, the award-winning New Mexico author is reflective on the movie business, actors, directors, and his legendary friendship with Sam Peckinpah.
“Ol’ Tony Hillerman told me one time, ‘Max, you know, if you option a novel, you’ve got to hope they don’t make th…
Cowboy Pens Best Rodeo Movie Ever Made Jeb Rosebrook’s highly personal memoir of the writing and producing of the Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen movie Junior Bonner recounts the special relationship between the historic Arizona city and its residents in the summer of 1971.
Prescott, Arizona, has been a center of Cowboy Culture since 1888, when civic-minded merchants first posted cash prizes …