Paul Newman, nominated for Oscars nine times, was way overdue when he finally took one home for The Color of Money in 1987. My favorites include:...
Paul Newman Tribute
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Western Books & Movies
Bonanza Classic Revived
Bonanza is so much a part of our cultural history and our TV past that its familiarity disguises the fact that the show is genuinely odd. Of all the...
“Everyone Stayed Home to Watch Gus Die”
The triumph of the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove is such that to once again name the awards and repeat the ratings and draw quotes from the universal...
Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky is currently shooting near Glen Rose, Texas. Producer Glenn Helm has brought aboard Alan Chan to direct the HD picture, so one can...
The Good, Bad, Ugly Comic?
Western movies these days are few and far between, but Western games and comic books continue to appear with some regularity. Movie heroes Zorro,...
Lonely Are The Brave
Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) is the kind of cowboy that mamas are warned not to let their babies grow up to be. He has no respect for authority, and he...
Ken Burns’s Best Work Ever
Ken Burns is more than a chronicler of American history and culture. As early as 1981, when Burns presented his film on the history of the Brooklyn...
Following Isabella
I admire books where a writer uses another writer’s book as a guide to the territory, as Ivan Doig does with a 19th-century diary in Winter Brothers...
The Savage Breed
The Savage Breed unfolds with a rush in a time and place rarely visited by the average Western writer. Randy Denmon takes the reader down a...
Time of the Rangers
Much history and legend of the Lone Star State involves the Texas Rangers. Mike Cox’s Time of the Rangers powerfully carries forward their story...
Sacred Memories
Texas is part of the South as well as the Rangers’ West. Sacred Memories is Kelly McMichael’s guide to Confederate statues on Lone Star courthouse...
Ten Deadly Texans
In Ten Deadly Texans, Lawrence Yadon, Don Anderson and Robert Barr Smith discuss the meanest hombres to encounter Rangers. Among them are Cullen...