This novel is the first of a trilogy focusing on the 1836-53 migration of German people from the Old Country to the Texas wilderness. Thousands...
Adelsverein: The Gathering (Fiction)
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Western Books & Movies
The Long Knives are Crying (Fiction)
Summoned by the visionary Sitting Bull to the Sioux summer rendezvous on the Little Bighorn River (Greasy Grass), a medicine man shares his vision...
The American Far West in the 20th Century (Nonfiction)
Richard W. Etulain has rescued and edited the last manuscript of the late University of Oregon professor. Pomeroy proves his thesis that the 20th...
Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory (Nonfiction)
Here’s a new literary treasure for all fans of the frontier wars and military posts. Fort Abraham Lincoln is examined at length here, from daily...
Sturges Biography
Coming in November from the University of Wisconsin Press is the first biography of director John Sturges, who was responsible for Gunfight at the...
Creepy Bastards
Dwight Yoakam and Kris Kristofferson are two singers who have played complete bastards in any number of movies. So the prospect of the two of them...
Radio Westerns
Speaking of Rangers on the radio, Old Time Radio Catalog (otrcat.com) is a company that offers a huge variety of radio programs on disc for...
Stranger on Horseback
Every so often a Western sneaks up on my blind side and surprises me. I’ve always respected Jacques Tourneur as a director, and his better known...
Outlaw Trail Collection
Back in the early 1970s, when a handful of Country singers and songwriters decided that they could bypass the stranglehold of the Nashville...
Kemo Sabe Unmasked
The history of the Texas Rangers is the history of Western movies. When Broncho Billy Anderson told director Edwin S. Porter that he could ride like...
Captain Ransom, Texas Ranger
Yet another biographical tribute to a Texas Ranger, this one written by the subject’s granddaughter. Henry Ransom served as a ranger in the first...
Nebraska’s Cowboy Trail
Keith Terry believes travel is an escape from the routine—combining new vistas and tangible history that stimulates the soul, opens the mind and...