Western Books & Movies Archives

Blazing Bergman!

by Henry C. Parke | Feb 21, 2024

A half-century after Andrew Bergman penned Blazing Saddles, the epic comic Western is still a cultural tour de force. Sure, Andrew Bergman has...

The Shadow Catcher

by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 21, 2024

Larry Peterson’s extraordinary new biography of Edward S. Curtis, plus two new classic Westerns, a Pony Express travel adventure and a history of a...

Best of the West: Western Movies

by Henry C. Parke | Dec 7, 2023

Everybody’s West: 2024 will be remembered as a bellwether year for diversity in Western film productions and subject matter. “Compared to the 20th...

Best of the West: Western Books

by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 7, 2023

The Wild, Wild West Western writers—and True West’s editors—are fighting hard to keep the genre alive. If you love to read about the...

Jack London at the Movies

by Henry C. Parke | Oct 29, 2023

For nearly 120 years, filmmakers from around the world have adapted the American adventurer’s novels into captivating films and television. Read...

The Man, The Myth, The Meal

by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 29, 2023

A culinary biography of Buffalo Bill, plus a new bio of Newton Earp, a range-war Western, a classic rediscovered and a dramatic debut Old West...

The Tenacity of the West—and the Western

by Stuart Rosebrook | Sep 22, 2023

A year ago, I asked the question: “Will the Western survive?” I was concerned, and rightfully so, with the anti-Western sentiment of many if not...

Voice of the West

by Stuart Rosebrook | Sep 22, 2023

A remembrance of Larry McMurtry, a new history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a wild Western tale, Apache boarding schools and a new collection...

Journey to Lone Pine

by Henry C. Parke | Sep 22, 2023

The iconic Western film location is celebrated every year at the internationally famous Lone Pine Film Festival. Among the hundreds of long-running...