The Wild Wild West, a TV series that ran from 1965-69, was a definite curiosity, a strange hybrid of Spy Drama, Science Fiction and traditional...
The Wild Wild West: The Complete TV Series
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Western Books & Movies
The Ultimate Westerns Collection
Available only at Costco, this remarkable box set of Westerns is for anyone wanting a fine group of classic pictures at a decent price. Included in...
Excerpts from Escape Artist: The Life and Time of John Sturges
You have to work backward from Yul Brynner, who would ultimately star as Chris, the leader of the gunfighters, to figure out whose brainstorm the...
Hopalong Cassidy
As Tommy Lee Jones mentions, Hopalong Cassidy meant a lot to kids of that generation. William Boyd, who started his career in the Silent Film era,...
Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands (Nonfiction)
In 1953, twelve Spanish Colonial-period settlements were inundated by Falcon Reservoir’s rising waters—the U.S. and Mexican government’s effort to...
Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
Trials by “Judge Lynch” were euphemisms for mob vengeance from colonial America to the frontier West. This scholarly study analyzes the documented...
A Passion for Nature The Life of John Muir (Nonfiction)
To write this excellent biography of John Muir, Donald Worster zealously ransacked the letters and journals of the great, self-taught naturalist....
Oklahoma Rough Rider (Nonfiction)
Never heard of Billy McGinty? Most of us haven’t, but this guy did everything. He was an Oklahoma cowboy, a Roosevelt Rough Rider, a performer with...
A Priest, a Prostitute & Some Other Early Texans (Nonfiction)
Don Blevins often ferrets out the quirky elements in history, and he has just added another gem to his fine works on Texas history. The subjects...
Sagebrush and Paintbrush (Children’s Book)
Ages 6-13: Although born into a well-to-do Missouri mining family, Charles Russell (1864-1926) wanted to live the Western dream. At 16, he dropped...
From a Distance (Fiction)
In this Christian Romance, 33-year-old Elizabeth Westbrook moves from her home in Washington D.C. to Colorado Territory where she hopes to make a...
Ride the Desperate Trail (Fiction)
The Western frontier was a cruel stretch of lonesome land where fate sometimes struck like a sidewinder. Ex-Missouri slave Free Anderson and his...