Western Books & Movies Archives

Pack Your Bags and Pack a Book…or Two or Three or More!

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jun 9, 2023

Travel and books go together like summer and sunshine, and the publishers of Western history and fiction have recently released a great catalog of...

A Season of Destiny and Infamy

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jun 9, 2023

Chris Wimmer’s The Summer of 1876, plus a revised biography of Sitting Bull, an ode to Billy, a classic Western and a new compendium on Spain’s...

Walter Hill Returns

by Henry C. Parke | May 5, 2023

The award-winning Hollywood icon saddles back up for Dead for a Dollar, a new Western. Having not directed a Western since 2006’s...

Expanding Horizon

by Stuart Rosebrook | May 5, 2023

Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning, plus a Texas Ranger history, a dual biography of Cody and Hickok, a novel of the Mississippi frontier and a...

The Unsinkable Raquel Welch

by Henry C. Parke | Mar 30, 2023

The groundbreaking star left a legacy of courage in Western films. "I’m glad you’re writing about Raquel Welch because she shouldn’t be forgotten....

East vs. West

by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 30, 2023

H.W. Brand’s major new dual biography of Geronimo and Sherman, plus a new history of Western prostitution, a pair of classic Westerns and a new...

Robert Duvall – A Western Career

by Henry C. Parke | Feb 24, 2023

The actor is not ready to hang up his hat and spurs. Robert Duvall would be one of the finest actors in the history of film if he never appeared in...

The Rascal Highwayman

by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 24, 2023

John Boessenecker’s new biography of Black Bart, plus three new history-travel books, a Southern Plains adventure and a collection of rip-roaring...

Battle for the New World

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jan 20, 2023

A bold, new interpretation of the conquest of North America, plus two new books on Western borders, a biography of King Fisher and a classic Western...