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....
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen
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Western Books & Movies
Legends of the West
In the annals of North American history, the fabled lore of the horse and the mountain man are two of the most chronicled and beloved. From...
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,...
California Dreaming
Two new books about the rise of Los Angeles and Hollywood, plus an overlooked story of slavery in Nebraska, a Western detective novel, the real and...
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Seventy-five years after its debut, John Ford's second cavalry Western is considered one of the greatest Westerns. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, the...
Saddle Up with a Western
Old West fiction and nonfiction are the perfect genres to fill your summer reading list. Every season is a good season to read, but summer is when...
Tale of Two Cities
Two new mining town histories, plus a Ford film trilogy history, a biography of Buffalo Bill, Lincoln’s spies and a conman for the ages. The history...
In Search of the Real Bass Reeves
For a century, slave-turned-Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was legendary among history buffs, but with the general public, he couldn’t get...
Tucson Book Festival
On Saturday morning, March 9, 2024, the sun rose over Tucson, Arizona, after two days of overcast skies and rain. Fifteen years since the first...
Grit and Grace
Across the past 150 years of Western American history scholarship, dozens of authors have been inspired to research and write about mining in the...
Blazing Bergman!
A half-century after Andrew Bergman penned Blazing Saddles, the epic comic Western is still a cultural tour de force. Sure, Andrew Bergman has...
The Shadow Catcher
Larry Peterson’s extraordinary new biography of Edward S. Curtis, plus two new classic Westerns, a Pony Express travel adventure and a history of a...