Fifty years after its release, Robert Aldrich's Western stands out as a classic in an era when the genre is waning. In 1972’s...
Ulzana’s Raid
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Western Books & Movies
War and Peace
Linda Wommack’s new history of Colorado’s Indian Wars, a collection of essays on the Silver State, a tale of a Cheyenne hero, a classic Western from...
Barry Corbin
The veteran actor has defined the art of bringing bad news to good Westerns. There are a certain very few actors whose presence lends the...
El Bandito Simpático
James B. Mills’ major new biography of Billy the Kid, plus a geographic history of Nebraska, an alternate bio of The Kid, a Wild West Western, and...
True Grit
Director Brian Downes has made it his life's work to build and fill the expanded John Wayne Birthplace Museum. If you’ve visited the John...
Patrick Wayne
An actor in his own right, the Duke’s son entertained audiences for decades in Westerns and action movies. In the golden years of Hollywood,...
Reveille to Taps
A poignant biography of the survivors of Little Bighorn, a new collection of short stories, a biography of a Chinese frontier leader, a history of a...
Lee Martin
A born storyteller, the California ranch girl has worked hard at her craft to become a successful Western novelist and screenwriter. ...
Hallowed Heroes Sacred Lands
A dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, plus a novel of the Mexican War, a history of slavery on the border, a classic Western and a...
Katy Haber
Sam Peckinpah’s Girl Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday, and… Film is the most collaborative of arts: no one makes a movie alone. So, how...
An Epic Tale of Life and Death
A great novel about the legendary Geronimo, a new history of U.S.-Mexico’s La Frontiera, two classic Western novels and a new history of Silver...
The Thrill of the West
Discover the tourist West in American Dude Ranch, and read a frontier murder-mystery, a novel of Libbie Custer, a Santa Fe Trail adventure and a bio...