You know you’re in Texas when a pair of ski-masked men rob a crowded bank and nearly every customer pulls a gun and opens fire. The impromptu posse...
A Defiant Outlaw-Hero Ballad
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Henry C. Parke
Ford Set the Bar High
The Buffalo Soldier and his crucial role in the post-Civil War West went unacknowledged for so long in history annals that his story was rarely told...
Sutherland’s Ride Together
This was a film that I’ve been dreaming of making for 30-some-odd years,” Kiefer Sutherland told the audience when Forsaken premiered at the Autry...
The Godfather of Westerns
With seven Emmys won, Lonesome Dove is unquestionably television’s most respected Western achievement. The roles were so good, the nominations of...
The Lonesome Dove Trail
Making the film should have been easy. Movies from Larry McMurtry’s novels—1963’s Hud and 1971’s The Last Picture Show—had already earned five...
Indie Westerns Lead the Way
After years on a starvation diet of barely one movie per year, Westerns fans face a feast of entertainment unseen since the early 1960s. While this...
Best of the West 2016: Western Movies DVDs & TV Shows
As this special issue honors the best pictures of cowboys, it certainly seems fitting that we also honor the best Cowboy Pictures, those movies that...
The Highest Peak
On the eve of the release of The Revenant, inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass’s fight for life, the film rights to the character of Grizzly...
The Australian Jesse James
Can a film be a Western if the story takes place on the other side of the globe? Writer-Director Matthew Holmes makes a convincing case. “In the...
Robin Hood of El Dorado
The Oscar-winning Cisco Kid, Warner Baxter, stars as farmer-turned-bandit Joaquin Murrieta, in 1936’s Robin Hood of El Dorado. Though MGM sold the...
Wanda the Wonderful
Carolyn McCartney’s documentary about her grandmother, sharpshooter Wanda Savage, is a mind-boggling pleasure. Part Chickasaw and born to a family...
Longmire’s Vengeance Ride
When the final episode of A&E’s Longmire, season three, came to a close, audiences were left with some tantalizing questions: Now that Walt...