As a youngster, Leo W. Banks watched too many TV and movie Westerns. The summer before entering Boston College High School, the Jesuits sent out a...

As a youngster, Leo W. Banks watched too many TV and movie Westerns. The summer before entering Boston College High School, the Jesuits sent out a...
Robert Coover tackles the impossible in Huck Out West (W.W. Norton, $26.95), a sequel to Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that puts...
John Horst’s Roosevelt’s Boys (Five Star Publishing $25.95) is a thoughtful, well- told story of Arizona cowboys caught up in the great adventure in...
Douglas C. McChristian’s Regular Army O!: Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891 (University of Oklahoma Press, $40) has breadth and depth, a...
Sam Shepard died July 27, 2017, at the age of 73, after a hard-fought battle with A.L.S. His understated, natural style recalled actor Gary ...
Deadwood has always attracted big names. In 1874, even before the town’s creation, George Armstrong Custer and his command scouted the Black Hills...
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...
The 1848 discovery of gold on the American River by New Jerseyan James W. Marshall set off an international migration. Jersey Gold—The Newark...
In this engrossing follow-up to his bestseller about The Searchers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning international reporter reveals much more than the...
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...
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...
On May 14, 2017, actor Powers Boothe died just short of his 69th birthday. A magnetic and commanding presence, he enjoyed simultaneous stardom as...