When Sam Peckinpah invited his close friend Jim Silke, an illustrator, to Western Costume in Los Angeles, California, in…
The Western Real and Imagined (University of Arizona Press, $35)
Arguing that Western movies have for more than a century “reflected American history and culture,” Richard Aquila’s ambi…
The Faults Do Not Matter How Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garret and Billy the Kid illuminates the historical record.
Because we are dealing with a legend everyone seems to feel that it must be authentic. I am not interested in authentici…