"Ol’ Tony Hillerman told me one time, ‘Max, you know, if you option a novel, you’ve got to hope they don’t make the movie. Because then you can’t...
Max Evans in Hollywood
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Western Books & Movies
Golden Jayhawkers
After news of the discovery of gold in California in 1848, thousands of individuals made their way to the west coast of America. Fueled by the...
Building your Western Library: Peter Corbett
Peter Corbett moved West in 1974 to attend Northern Arizona University. He had a 35-year career in Arizona journalism and recently was a “roads...
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The new Netflix Western anthology film from Joel and Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is the best Western comedy since 1969’s Blazing...
Rough Drafts
As we begin a new calendar year of publishing, I am hopeful for a big year in Western history, culture and biography publishing. Here are three...
Riding Shotgun Across the West
In 2019, 170 years after the commencement of the Gold Rush, Wells Fargo remains an icon of growth and development of the American West. Established...
More than Animal House
Despite 183 acting credits, two Emmy nominations and no signs of slowing down, the suave and funny actor Tim Matheson will be forever remembered as...
Building your Western Library: Matthew P. Mayo
Matthew P. Mayo is the award-winning author of dozens of novels and nonfiction books about the West, including the recent multi-award-winning YA...
The Fabled Doc Holliday
Historians and enthusiasts have long debated the existence of the correspondence between John Henry “Doc” Holliday and his first cousin Mattie. An...
The Last Cowboy
Men trapped outside their times—it was the great theme of Sam Peckinpah’s best movies, and Brad Smith makes it his own in his first-rate novel, The...
The Legendary Buckskin Frank
Buckskin Frank Leslie is one of the great names in Old West history, but there’s been no full-length biography of the man—until now. Historians Jack...
DVD Review: Dawson City Duo
Those Redheads from Seattle (Kino Lorber; $19.95); Dawson City: Frozen Time (Kino Lorber; $29.95 and pictured above). A perfect pairing: two movies...