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Western Books & Movies
High Times in the Bitterroots
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO
DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO (Kino Lorber; $29.95) In this Blu-ray release of the 1940 classic, Tyrone Power stars as Diego, outwardly the effete...
Battle for Paradise
David K. Randall has fully recounted for the first time the legendary Southern California Rindge Family land war in The King and Queen of Malibu:...
DVD Review: One-Eyed Jacks
After languishing in unwatchable 99-cent copies, 1961’s One-Eyed Jacks (Criterion Collection; $29.95), the last Vista Vision movie, has been...
Frontier Justice For Sale
For nearly 40 years, film distributors and filmmakers from around the world have annually converged in Santa Monica, California, to buy and...