Canadian Paul Gross is an actor, director, songwriter, producer and screenwriter, but Americans will recognize him primarily as Darryl Van Horne in...
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Western Books & Movies
Laurie’s Wild West
Laurie Powers is a Los Angeles-based writer who has a deep interest in Westerns and Pulp Fiction, which makes sense since her grandfather was Paul...
On the Set of The Gundown
Gammons Gulch is not entirely real; movie sets generally aren’t, but this collection of buildings and props, encompassing a chunk of American myth...
Lineup at Encore Westerns
Encore’s Westerns Channel has announced that, beginning in 2010, the channel will be broadcasting a new batch of vintage TV Westerns, including...
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns
The complete title of Paul Green’s book is Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics,...
Darn Good Westerns, Vol. II
This year’s truth-in-advertising award ought to be given to VCI for its DVD series of “Darn Good Westerns.” You’ll find no shouting and no lurid...
The Wild Bunch: Forty Years Later
In November, the 40th anniversary of 1969’s The Wild Bunch was celebrated in grand fashion at the Million Dollar Theater in downtown Los Angeles....
Old West Locales
Nevada: Through the engaging narrative Lost in Austin: A Nevada Memoir (University of Nevada Press, $21.95), the reader is transported to Nevada’s...
In Their Own Words
Although derided by some egghead professors as “Cowboys and Indians, 101,” the Western Americana field of history is, actually, remarkably rich and...
To Hell on a Fast Horse
Billing his book as a dual biography of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, Mark Gardner bails into the oft-told tale (there are more than a thousand...
Remembering a Western Literary Icon
Elmer Kelton leaves behind some big boots to fill. Well, he would have, had he worn boots. “I’ve got two glass ankles and flat feet,” he told me...
Gunsmoke: The Third Season, Vol. 1
Gunsmoke made its initial debut in 1952 as a radio program created by writer John Meston and producer Norman MacDonnell. When it arrived three years...