Western Books & Movies Archives

Classic Western Tale

by Jeb Rosebrook | Mar 28, 2018

Anyone who loves Charles Portis’s style of writing in True Grit, or readers ready to fall in love with a great yarn well told, should look no...

National Park Treasures

by Bill Markley | Mar 26, 2018

Treasures of the National Parks: Yesterday & Today (Golden Valley Press, $45) is a feast for the eyes. Paul Horsted takes you on a journey to...

Building Your Western Library: Andrew Patrick Nelson

by Andrew Patrick Nelson, PhD | Mar 23, 2018

Andrew Patrick Nelson is assistant professor of film history at Montana State University. Though born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Nelson can’t...

Mexican Revolutionary

by Salomé Hernández | Mar 22, 2018

With shelves upon shelves of books about the Mexican Revolution in both Spanish and English, it would seem that one more would be unnecessary. But,...

DVD Review: Barquero

by Henry C. Parke | Mar 15, 2018

For a Few Dollars More and The Wild Bunch propelled former bit players Lee Van Cleef and Warren Oates to Western movie stardom. Van Cleef is the...

The End of the West

by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 9, 2018

Since 1988, when award-winning author Richard White published his first volume of history, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and...

Eternal Texas Rangers

by Jim Wilson | Mar 5, 2018

The history of the Texas Rangers is the story of real people surrounded by the legends and the legacies of that historic organization. In Texas...

Building Your Western Library With Kevin Hogge

by Kevin Hogge | Feb 28, 2018

Kevin Hogge is an Old West enthusiast who is part of an elite group of riders and historians who have ridden the trails of Wyatt Earp in southern...

Legendary Westerners

by Steve Friesen | Feb 26, 2018

Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship Between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill by Deanne Stillman (Simon and Schuster, $27) explores the...