Western Books & Movies Archives

To Hell on a Fast Horse

by Bob Boze Bell | Dec 20, 2009

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

by Johnny D. Boggs | Dec 19, 2009

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

by Henry Cabot Beck | Oct 24, 2009

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...

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon Season One

by Henry Cabot Beck | Oct 24, 2009

He was dedicated, loyal and fearless; never hesitating to leap into the fray in the name of justice and fair play. He traveled throughout Canada’s...

Warner Archival DVDs

by Henry Cabot Beck | Oct 24, 2009

Everybody who loves movies has a wish list of pictures they’d like to own, that have not yet been made available as DVDs. Which is why Warner...

Gunsmoke: The Third Season, Volume 2

by Henry Cabot Beck | Oct 24, 2009

If a single year in the life of Gunsmoke could be responsible for winning the show its place as the “Greatest TV Western Series of All Time” by...

Brimstone

by William Garwood | Oct 14, 2009

Robert B. Parker’s lawmen for hire, Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, trail the troubled Allie French to the town of Brimstone in Parker’s Appaloosa...

Death Mask

by William Garwood | Oct 14, 2009

Cotton Smith’s Death Mask follows a trail of ghostly revenge. After ex-Texas Ranger Tanneman Rose is jailed for bank robbery, he passes a death...

Hard Winter

by William Garwood | Oct 14, 2009

Johnny D. Boggs’s Hard Winter has all the impact of that deadly winter of 1886-87 with its murderous cold, hellish gales and impassable drifts. But...