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Western Books & Movies
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The best DVD edition of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” from 20th Century Fox. We love it for the “making...
The Iconic Duo
The last great year for Western movies was 1969, which saw the release of three classics: The Wild Bunch, True Grit and Butch Cassidy and the...
Hard Country
Ex-cop Michael McGarrity is known for his police procedural mysteries featuring Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney (Tularosa, Dead or Alive)....
8 Classic Westerns
That the train would inspire the world’s first narrative film, Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 Western The Great Train Robbery, makes complete sense to us....
Route 66: Lost & Found
The famous Mother Road pathway lingers in our memories, and Russell A. Olsen highlights its charms in Route 66: Lost & Found (Voyageur Press,...
Cleaving an Unknown World
By 1869, Lewis & Clark, trappers, U.S. Army surveyors and pioneer emigrants had pretty much explored most of the continental United States, but...
The Great Plains Guide to Custer
When folks ask me about the goals I have as the U.S. Congress’s “Foremost Custer Living Historian,” I tell them that, in addition to reading the...
Little Big Man
The Western was fair game in 1970, when the movie Little Big Man was released. Those were cynical times, and people were polarized—politically,...
Train Keeps A’Rollin’
When Joe and Tony Gayton, the brothers responsible for creating Hell on Wheels, pitched their series to cable station AMC, a Western wasn’t...
Our Favorite Reads of 2011
True West editors weigh in on our favorite reads. BIOGRAPHIES THE KILLING OF CRAZY HORSEBy Thomas Powers (Knopf/Vintage)The shadowy warrior of...
MARY DORIA RUSSELL
Author of Doc, which Ron Howard will be filming for HBO. On Ron Howard’s HBO Project:Here’s a little Hollywood wisdom I’ve learned: it’s not a movie...