The scholar, songwriter, pilot also acted in dozens of Westerns If he’d done nothing but write Me and Bobby McGee, and Sunday Morning Coming Down,...
Kris Kristofferson— A Texan at Oxford
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Western Books & Movies
Three for the Road
The Bird Cage, the Butterfield and the Bunch The Gilded Theater In Old West history there are few cities as infamous as Tombstone, Arizona, and as...
Best of the West 2025: Western Movies, DVDs, and TV Shows
The Passion Projects of the Modern Western A Year of Underrated Excellence I saw two Westerns in theaters in 2024: Horizon: An American Saga Chapter...
Best of the West 2025: Western Books
Then and Now The state of Western history and fiction publishing in 2024 is one of grit and determination. In 2013, I received a call from my friend...
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen
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....
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...