Sixty years ago Davy Crockett was not only king of the wild frontier on TV, he was king of the box office for Walt Disney. In 1954-1955, Walt Disney...
Long Live the King of the Wild Frontier
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Stuart Rosebrook
Trail’s End for a Southern Son
John Henry “Doc” Holliday is one of the most mythic well-imagined characters in the annals of Old West popular culture. Victoria Wilcox’s challenge...
Rough Drafts 7/15
Congratulations to the Western Writers of America annual Spur Award winners in biography, nonfiction and fiction presented in Lubbock, Texas, June...
The Cowboys Lament: The Kansas Origin of a Western Classic
Did you know that an Iowa born cowboy Frank Maynard, who moved to Kansas when he was just 16, is the author of the famed Western song, “The Cowboy’s...
Where Magic Meets the West: The Para-Western
Weird Westerns? Sci-Fi Westerns? Para-Westerns? Para-Mystery Westerns? Steampunk Westerns? Western Graphic Novels? At the Tallgrass Writing Workshop...
Flyover No More: The Heart of the West is in Emporia, Kansas
Where is the center of the West? Try Emporia, Kansas. Last weekend, I was the keynote speaker and faculty member at the Center for Great Plains...
Battle of The Little Bighorn Reenactment
On the weekend of June 26-28, 2015 thousands will pilgrimage to the Battle of Little Bighorn National Monument to commemorate the 139th anniversary...
The Searchers: Seeking Cinema History in Monument Valley
Sixty years ago, John Ford and his film company left Hollywood for Goulding’s Lodge and Monument Valley to make The Searchers, a film that many...
Summer Reading: Give Your Heart to a Classic
Western author Win Blevins will receive the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature at the Western Writers of America...
Texas Rising, the Alamo, Davey Crockett and John Wayne
The History Channel, on the boot heels of FOX News documentary series, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends & Lies: The Real West, has debuted its...
Country Star Marty Stuart Honors the Duke and the Lakota
As the sun went down on Saturday night May 23, 2015, in Winterset, Iowa, Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives, with special guest star, Opry...
A Homecoming for the Duke in Winterset, Iowa
On May 23, 2015, over 1,000 fans, friends, family, honorary guests and dignitaries, from as far away as Australia, Ireland and France, gathered in...