Western Books & Movies Archives

‘Never Take No Cutoffs’

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jun 6, 2017

Roman slave and poet-playwright Terence famously wrote in his 163 B.C. play Heauton Timorumenos, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto,” or “I...

Slim Pickens

by Henry C. Parke | May 30, 2017

Show me a magazine cover with a pretty girl, a baby or a dog...and I’ll show you a magazine that sells,” publishing legend William Randolph Hearst...

High Times in the Bitterroots

by Leo W. Banks | May 23, 2017

When the Bitterroot Mountains exploded in wildfires in 1910, Buffalo Soldiers from the 25th Infantry helped evacuate the town of Wallace, Idaho. The...

Building Your Western Library: Preston Lewis

by Preston Lewis | May 18, 2017

Midland, Texas, native Preston Lewis has spent much of his life working and writing in his beloved West Texas. During his award-winning four-decade...

Kill or Be Killed

by Stuart Rosebrook | May 10, 2017

Since Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902 and Zane Grey published The Last of the Plainsman in 1908, Western authors have mined the West’s...

Rustled for Hollywood

by Henry C. Parke | Apr 28, 2017

In the 1950s, Universal Pictures hit on an absurd premise that would delight millions and make millions: the Francis the Talking Mule military...

Hero on the Run

by Bill Markley | Apr 28, 2017

In Matthew Mayo’s The Outfit: To Hell and Back (Five Star, $25.95) Rafe Barr, Civil War hero, wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and son, is...

The Son Rises on AMC

by Henry C. Parke | Apr 27, 2017

On April 8, a new series, The Son, will premiere on AMC. Starring Pierce Brosnan, the four-time James Bond who rode West in 2006’s Seraphim Falls,...

The Vengeance Trail

by Ollie Reed Jr. | Apr 21, 2017

C. Courtney Joyner’s Shotgun: The Bleeding Ground (Pinnacle Books, $6.99) is the follow up to Joyner’s Shotgun, the novel that introduced us to Dr....