Western Books & Movies Archives

Best of the West 2025: Western Movies, DVDs, and TV Shows

by Henry C. Parke | Dec 20, 2024

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 19, 2024

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

by Henry C. Parke | Oct 17, 2024

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 17, 2024

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

by Henry C. Parke | Aug 12, 2024

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Aug 12, 2024

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

by Henry C. Parke | Jun 11, 2024

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jun 11, 2024

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

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jun 11, 2024

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...