Larry McMurtry’s novel, Boone’s Lick, is under negotiation to be directed by Lasse Hallstrom. The Universal Studios film will be adapted by McMurtry...
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Western Books & Movies
Skeletons of the Sahara
American sailors shipwrecked off the North African Coast in 1815 are sold into slavery in DreamWorks and Intermedia’s Skeletons of the Sahara, based...
Right Brain Overload
Cotton Smith is a right-brain guy. He paints. He draws. He develops creative ad and marketing campaigns. He has written poetry, plays, short...
Custer’s Last Film
In his own time George A. Custer was quite the celebrity-soldier, so it is certainly appropriate that he has become such a frequent character in the...
Training Painted Paints
It’s a breathtaking scene in a beautiful movie. Hundreds of wild horses run free across the Montana prairie in the final scene of Hidalgo. The...
He Speaks the Language
Larry Jay Martin did a lot of living before settling down and getting serious about his writing career. “I’ve been plane wrecked, car wrecked, boat...
He Speaks the Language
Larry Jay Martin did a lot of living before settling down and getting serious about his writing career. “I’ve been plane wrecked, car wrecked, boat...
Why Did The Alamo Flop?
First off, there were no male action stars and no hot babes, so there goes the action and sex-comedy crowds. Look at the four biggest grossing films...
Why Did The Alamo Flop?
First off, there were no male action stars and no hot babes, so there goes the action and sex-comedy crowds. Look at the four biggest grossing films...
Celebrating Pioneer Women
Ida May and Edith Eudora Ammon homesteaded in North Dakota in the 1880s, expecting their venture to be a lark. They intended proving up, getting...
Pounds of “Character Gold Dust”
The little mining camp that could and did survive is none other than Deadwood, South Dakota, the best character found on HBO’s Deadwood series,...
Following the Hawks
For years, novelist Win Blevins honed his storytelling skills by creating characters and events in Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park for his youngest son...