In Colorado Territory, 1866, a handsome young rancher discovers a beautiful young woman trapped inside a cave on his property. He rescues her, and,...
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Western Books & Movies
1959’s No Name on the Bullet
About 30 years ago, my younger sister Pam had to write an essay on a “hero” for NYU. She chose Bruce Springsteen. I said, “I like Bruce, but he even...
The Bloody Benders
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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...
West of Here
West of Here, by Jonathan Evison, is a five-generation saga that begins with the arrival of 1890s idea man Ethan Thornburgh at the fishing village...