Western Books & Movies Archives

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....

DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO

by Henry C. Parke | Apr 6, 2017

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

by Brian Dervin Dillon | Mar 20, 2017

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

by Henry C. Parke | Mar 20, 2017

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

by Henry C. Parke | Mar 17, 2017

For nearly 40 years, film distributors and filmmakers from around the world have annually converged in Santa Monica, California, to buy and...

Building Your Western Library: Jim Turner

by Jim Turner | Mar 13, 2017

Jim Turner was the eighth generation living in the family’s Connecticut home until they moved to Tucson in 1951 because of his asthma. He has been...

Woman of Gold

by Catherine H. Spude | Mar 8, 2017

Every tale of the Klondike gold rush of 1897-’98 begins with the discovery of gold by George Carmack and his Tagish brothers-in-law. In Wealth...

A Divided America

by Henry C. Parke | Feb 23, 2017

The story of the Underground Railroad, the antebellum, sub-rosa conspiracy to lead escaped slaves from Southern plantations to freedom in the North,...