Review of Eli Paul’s The Frontier Army: Episodes from Dakota and the West.
Soldiering On The Frontier
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Western Books & Movies
True Grit’s 50th Anniversary
John Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance as Rooster Cogburn in the Paramount film culminated the greatest year in Western film history.
Bloody War, Bitter Peace
Review of historian Robert N. Watt’s “With My Face to My Bitter Foes”: Nana’s War 1880-1881.
California Robber Baron
Review of Roland De Wolk’s American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford.
Born to the West
Robert Carradine reflects on his career in Westerns and his family’s rich legacy in Hollywood.
Living and Dying Along the Rio Grande
Review of Mike Blakely’s, A Sinister Splendor: A Mexican War Novel, an ambitious novel of the Mexican War.
Chronicling the West
Western novelists and historians keep the Old West alive through hard work and their dedication to the crafts of writing and research.
Wild Western Action
Review of Eric Red’s Hanging Fire.
A War to Remember
Review of Mark Santiago’s A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799.
Franco Nero
The once and future “Django” is still a star 55 years after being cast in his first Western role.
The War Between the States on the Southern Border
Review of The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876.
Western Art Treasure Trove
For collectors and aficionados of Western art and Western art books, the publishing year of 2019 is shaping up to be one of the best.