The 2011 summer blockbuster film turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments, if you listen to Hollywood. With the brain trusts of Steven...
Why Did Cowboys & Aliens Fail… Or did it?
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Western Books & Movies
Pulp Fiction
From the time of his birth in windswept Tilden, Nebraska, on March 11, 1911, L. Ron Hubbard wandered through a West criss-crossed by his parents,...
REX RIDEOUT
Making his movie debut as the cowboy fiddler in last year’s Cowboys & Aliens, Rex Rideout is a 19th-century music historian who can often be...
The Lone Rango
One film that touched everyone—from the kiddies to us grizzled veterans—was 2011’s Rango. We enjoyed it more because we understood all the inside...
Quanah Parker Rides Again
All Sam Gwynne wanted to do was write a book about the American West, specifically about Quanah Parker and the Comanches. “I would have been happy...
Clint The Icon of a Generation
Clint Eastwood is a mystery. He’s been a cowboy, a cop, a National Geographic photojournalist, a clown, a honky-tonk singer, a jazz DJ and a...
Call of the Canyon
In 1906, novelist Zane Grey visited the Arizona Territory for the first time. The Southwestern landscape fired his imagination; after a few return...
The TopTen Must-Have Books On Arizona History
Your must-have books on Arizona history! 1. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes Written by...
Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State
The Maynard Dixon cover is not the only reason to love this new Arizona book. Jim Turner’s family moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1951, to cure his...
Spur-Winning Novelists—Blue Heaven
Buffalo Bill’s stock packer, young Fenton Pardee, sometimes wonders if Cody’s Wild West show’s rough riding, sharpshooting and scally-hooting...
Spur-Winning Novelists—The Richest Hill on Earth
Wheeler excels again, with his 1892 tale of New York editor John Fellowes Hall digging for yarns at a two-fisted gold camp in Butte, Montana. He...
Yuma Gold
In 1904 Ben Ruby walks from the Yuma Territorial Prison after doing eight years on the false testimony of his crooked boss, L.J. Gorum. Ruby carries...