Western Books & Movies Archives

The Bloody Benders

by Henry Cabot Beck | Nov 8, 2011

Scare master John Carpenter, who created the Halloween franchise, wants to make a picture about The Bloody Benders, a German family of serial...

Meek’s Cutoff

by Henry Cabot Beck | Nov 8, 2011

Director Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff is not an action picture or a conventional Western, any more than The Assassination of Jesse James was a...

Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938

by Henry Cabot Beck | Nov 8, 2011

The National Film Preservation Foundation has dedicated an entire three-DVD collection to the American West and the Western. For hardcore fans, this...

The Lonely Road

by Linda Wommack | Nov 8, 2011

Kraft walks the reader over the dusty trails with Wynkoop to the point that the reader gets to know Wynkoop’s most intimate activities as he...

Butch is Back!

by Henry Cabot Beck | Nov 8, 2011

We’ve seen them ride off into the sunset at the end of the story, but what happens when the heroes and outlaws, the men of myth and grand adventure,...

From Deadwood to Hollywood

by Henry Cabot Beck | Jun 28, 2011

Sopranos creator David Chase is working with HBO on a new miniseries, Ribbon of Dreams, about the early days of Hollywood. The two principal...

1972’s Ulzana’s Raid

by Josh Becker | Jun 28, 2011

Ulzana’s Raid is one of the rare movies that has a particularly strong theme—violence: what does it mean, and how is it used? To perfectly...

Hearts Aglow

by Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza | May 24, 2011

In Hearts Aglow, by Tracie Peterson, Deborah Vandermark lives in Texas after the Civil War. Interested in becoming a physician, she studies with the...

The Golden West: Fifty Years of Bison Books

by William Garwood | May 24, 2011

In 1961 Bison Books blazed a paperback trail to some of the best stories about Nebraska and the Great Plains. Mari Sandoz’s Old Jules led a prairie...