Thomas William Ward was a remarkable figure in the Texas Revolution. Losing his right leg to cannon fire, he steadfastly remained in the military...
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Western Books & Movies
High Plains Invaders
In the year 1893, something nasty lurks in the woods near the mining community of Amarenth, Colorado. Any seasoned monster movie aficionado knows...
Tombstone: Blu-Ray Edition
Like 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1993’s Tombstone is a movie that appeals to audiences inside and outside the Westerns fan base. Also...
Fifty Years After The Alamo
Just how or why John Wayne first came upon the idea of making a movie about the Alamo is possibly the only mystery remaining in a movie that has...
Depp as Pancho Villa
Johnny Depp and Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica will be collaborating once again on a picture, Wild Roses, Tender Roses, that is an adaptation of...
Gunsmoke Gossip
Who’s big enough, fair enough and fast enough to handle the rowdy cowhands of Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s? Right now, for the Gunsmoke remake,...
Remaking TV’s Big Valley
A film based on ABC’s 1965-69 Big Valley is the brainchild of producer Kate Edelman Johnson, the daughter of the late Louis Edelman, who co-created...
Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 4, Volume 1
On a dark and stormy night, sheets of rain pounded the window of Paladin’s suite in San Francisco’s swank Hotel Carlton. Inside, the...
The Man Who Would be Clint
When one tries to describe Clint Eastwood, it’s difficult to avoid hyperbole, even when stating the simple facts of the man, as an actor and as a...
The Book of Murdock
Loren D. Estleman, winner of five Spur awards, is known for his snappy writing and well-developed characters. In The Book of Murdock, Estleman...
Roy Bean’s Gold
W.R. Garwood writes a fictional, first-person account of Judge Roy Bean’s early days before he became known as the “Hanging Judge.” In Roy Bean’s...
Return to the Arrowhead
Having spent most of his life working on cattle operations in Colorado, Eugene C. Vories writes realistically from experience. In Return to the...