Billy himself would have approved The late Val Kilmer’s acting career delved into films of so many genres—from Top Secret to Top Gun, from...
Val Kilmer’s ‘Billy’
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Western Books & Movies
Building your Western Library
Arizona Author and Museum Director’s Five Favorite Biographies of Arizona Women Stuart Rosebrook, executive director of Sharlot Hall Museum in...
2025 WWA Spur Awards
Best Biography: The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels by Sandra E. Bonura (University of Nebraska Press) Best Contemporary...
Heroes and Heroines of the West
New biographies by James B. Mills and Chris Enss, plus a rollicking volume of Western short stories, a history of Fort Worth, and insightful bios of...
Western Movies
AMERICAN PRIMEVAL GOOD AND EVIL The Mountain Meadow Massacre is center-stage in this brutal and enthralling pioneer docudrama American...
Western Books
From the Lone Star West to San Juan Hill Three new books on Texas, Davy Crockett and the Spanish-American War, plus a classic Western anthology on...
Kris Kristofferson— A Texan at Oxford
The scholar, songwriter, pilot also acted in dozens of Westerns If he’d done nothing but write Me and Bobby McGee, and Sunday Morning...
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,...
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...