Deadwood has always attracted big names. In 1874, even before the town’s creation, George Armstrong Custer and his command scouted the Black Hills...
Gambling, Gold and Women
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Western Books & Movies
Building Your Western Library with William Groneman III
William Groneman III, born and raised in New York City as a member of the Baby Boomer generation, grew up on a steady diet of Western television...
Jersey Argonauts
The 1848 discovery of gold on the American River by New Jerseyan James W. Marshall set off an international migration. Jersey Gold—The Newark...
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
In this engrossing follow-up to his bestseller about The Searchers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning international reporter reveals much more than the...
“To Honor Men Who Dig For Gold”
Ghost Towns of the West (Voyager Press, $24.99) by Philip Varney and Jim Hinckley, is a must for lovers of history and solitude. The book features...
The Best of the Weird Western
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, an endlessly-in-the-works film that finally premiered on August 4, disappointed fans because, unlike the novels, it’s...
Farewell to Curly Bill
On May 14, 2017, actor Powers Boothe died just short of his 69th birthday. A magnetic and commanding presence, he enjoyed simultaneous stardom as...
Building Your Western Library With Harlan Hague
Harlan Hague grew up in Texas and never quite got over it. He was posted with the U.S. Navy in Japan, later lived in England, visited about seventy...
Princess Wenona
While Annie Oakley is well known as the demure darling of the lady sharpshooters of the Wild West shows of old, only the more ardent Western...
Utah Sovereignty
Antebellum America saw continuous political conflict over the expansion of slavery into new Territories. Popular sovereignty—allowing Territories...
The Practical and Spiritual Mores of the High Plains Peoples
Michael Gibbs’s first volume in his “High Plains Warrior” series, Spirit Wolf (CreateSpace, $12.95), plots catastrophic events in the lives of the...
Buffalo Bill in the Movies
The first actor to play Buffalo Bill in the movies was the man who had perfected the role for over a quarter century on the stage and in the show...