Western Books & Movies Archives

Books: Rough Drafts

by Stuart Rosebrook | May 2, 2018

Springtime is awards season for books, television and film, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum of Oklahoma City recently...

Brides for Indians

by Karen Casey Fitzjerrell | Apr 30, 2018

Jim Fergus’s sequel to The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel (St. Martin’s Press, $26.99) is based on...

DVD Review: 6 Bullets To Hell

by Henry C. Parke | Apr 23, 2018

When Billy Rogers (Crispian Belfrage) returns to his sun-blasted ranch to find his wife (Magda Rodriguez) raped and murdered, he vows revenge on...

River Master of the Colorado

by Leo W. Banks | Apr 20, 2018

Cecil Kuhne tackles one of the West’s great stories in River Master: John Wesley’s Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand...

Building Your Western Library: Kip Stratton

by Kip Stratton | Apr 12, 2018

W.K. (Kip) Stratton has deep roots in the West. He was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, the son of a rodeo cowboy from Denver and a woman whose forebears...

Unforgiving Frontier

by Lucia St. Clair Robson | Apr 10, 2018

Laura Little’s escape from a Texas Sanitarium for the Curable and Incurable in a fast-paced prologue is a brilliant introduction to her...

Reality Cowboy Stars

by Henry C. Parke | Apr 5, 2018

This April 26, Chris “Booger” Brown, Cody Harris and Bubba Thompson saddle up for their third season of INSP’s The Cowboy Way—Alabama, the most...

Sand Creek Complexity

by John Langellier | Apr 3, 2018

Sand Creek, like Little Bighorn or Wounded Knee, serves as a lightning rod evoking polemic responses. Gregory F. Michno knew this well when he...

Titans of the West

by Stuart Rosebrook | Apr 2, 2018

For fans of Western cinema, 2018 is an anniversary year of great importance as the 80th anniversary of John Ford directing his first John Wayne film...