Western Books & Movies Archives

The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (Nonfiction)

by Linda Wommack | Mar 3, 2009

The “mystery” of the ghost dance has been written about for many years. Finally, thanks to impressive research by Andersson, the “mystery” has been...

Movie Westerns Back in Print

by Henry Cabot Beck | Mar 1, 2009

Dorchester Publications is among a fairly finite number of publishers who continue to print both original and older Western novels. In its latest...

Hoppy Re-Upped

by Henry Cabot Beck | Mar 1, 2009

Joining his fellow spur-bearing good guy, the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy may return to big screens in 2011. Producer Mark Canton (300) seems to...

The Man Behind the Cape

by Henry Cabot Beck | Jan 30, 2009

As the dust continues to settle, and the perspective changes in our grasp of what the Western was and who played a significant role in shaping it,...

Uncle Ernie’s Guide to Old Time Rodeo (Nonfiction)

by Linda Wommack | Jan 28, 2009

The typesetting is quirky, the illustrations are cartoonish and yet this book is a hoot! A brief history of rodeo events, including bulldogging,...

The Lost Boy: With Penny the Mustang Pony (Children’s Book)

by Cynthia Green | Jan 28, 2009

Ages 4-8: This is the fourth story in a picture book series about the wild pony named Penny. The playful mustang and her friend Star discover a...

A Promise For Spring (Fiction)

by Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza | Jan 28, 2009

Emmaline Bradford nervously leaves her home in England and ventures to the Kansas plains into an arranged marriage with a man she hardly remembers....

Zane Grey Western Legends (Fiction)

by William Garwood | Jan 28, 2009

Thousands of readers have blessed the day Pearl Zane Grey dropped the dental profession to pen memorable Westerns such as the classics in this...

Where Law Ends (Fiction)

by William Garwood | Jan 28, 2009

Fast with a gun, Montana Territory Sheriff Henry Plummer is the right man for hunting down the road agents swarming the bullion-toting coach lines....