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...
The Tenacity of the West—and the Western
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Western Books & Movies
Voice of the West
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
The iconic Western film location is celebrated every year at the internationally famous Lone Pine Film Festival. Among the hundreds of long-running...
Dana Delany
The woman who wanted the West tells her side of the story of Tombstone and more. "I’m a huge fan of the Western,” Dana Delany says. “I just...
Big Sky Dreaming
Thomas Minckler’s masterpiece, plus a biography of Patton, a Western love story, a guide to guns and a grand collection of Western short stories....
The Taylor Sheridan Universe
Producer and actor Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Western movie icon Joel McCrea, is enthusiastic about acting in The Contested Plains, about a...
Brave and True
Just in time for great summer reading, Tom Clavin’s latest Western history, Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier...
Clint Howard
From kid to character actor, the film and TV veteran has entertained fans for over six decades. In Nicholas Cage’s new Western, The Old Way,...
Pack Your Bags and Pack a Book…or Two or Three or More!
Travel and books go together like summer and sunshine, and the publishers of Western history and fiction have recently released a great catalog of...
A Season of Destiny and Infamy
Chris Wimmer’s The Summer of 1876, plus a revised biography of Sitting Bull, an ode to Billy, a classic Western and a new compendium on Spain’s...
Walter Hill Returns
The award-winning Hollywood icon saddles back up for Dead for a Dollar, a new Western. Having not directed a Western since 2006’s...
Expanding Horizon
Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning, plus a Texas Ranger history, a dual biography of Cody and Hickok, a novel of the Mississippi frontier and a...