Western Books & Movies Archives

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...

Mescal Reborn

by Henry C. Parke | Jan 20, 2023

The stores of Far Haven and the rebirth of an iconic film location are both tales of redemption. Beginning with the deadly nighttime ambush of a...

Best of the West 2023: Western Movies, DVDs & TV Shows

by Henry C. Parke | Dec 8, 2022

2022 was the Year of 1883 From Taylor Sheridan's popular series to director Walter Hill's latest film, the past year was one of the decade's most...

Best of the West 2023: Western Books

by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 8, 2022

The Hero’s Journey The heroic efforts of the men and women who write and publish about the West must be celebrated. This year will mark the...

A Legendary Year, an Epic Story

by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 30, 2022

A rollicking chronicle of the West, plus a new Arizona Rangers history, new bios of Hopi potter Nampeyo and Apache Chiquito, and a new classic...

Jeremiah Johnson

by Henry C. Parke | Oct 30, 2022

Half a century later, it’s still the best mountain man movie ever made. Long before there was a grid to live off of, there were mountain men,...

Ulzana’s Raid

by Henry C. Parke | Sep 22, 2022

Fifty years after its release, Robert Aldrich's Western stands out as a classic in an era when the genre is waning. In 1972’s...

War and Peace

by Stuart Rosebrook | Sep 22, 2022

Linda Wommack’s new history of Colorado’s Indian Wars, a collection of essays on the Silver State, a tale of a Cheyenne hero, a classic Western from...