When Bob Fussell edited his grandfather’s memoirs, he wondered if the stories were true. Consulting his cousin for suggestions, the response was...
Unbridled Cowboy (Nonfiction)
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Western Books & Movies
The Training Ground (Nonfiction)
Although the subtitle of Martin Dugard’s excellent book is “Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-48” and the author protests that...
Unbridled Dreams (Fiction)
In this Christian Romance, Irma Friedrich is the spoiled teenage daughter of a banker and a matchmaking mother. Rather than settle for finishing...
Amazing Girls of Arizona (Children’s Book)
Young Adult: The young women described in these 11 short profiles reflect the ethnic diversity, varied lifestyles and resourceful character one...
Val Kilmer Returns
Ever since Val Kilmer first appeared as a parody of Elvis in the 1984 comedy Top Secret!, he's had one of the most interesting careers in Hollywood...
Runaway Horse Reined in
When New Line pictures was folded into Warner Brothers recently, the fate of several films was left uncertain, including Appaloosa, which is based...
The Phantom Empire
Gene Autry wasn’t completely green when he starred in the 12-chapter serial The Phantom Empire in 1935. He’d made a musical appearance in 1934’s In...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Vol. III
Indiana Jones may have been a professor and an archaeologist, but he always had the DNA of Western heroes. Guns, whips, horses, hats and the Yakima...
High Noon
Many regard High Noon as one of the supremely significant moments in American film, especially as it relates to the players, and the politics, of...
Oh, the Horror!
Director Neil Marshall (The Descent) has been talking about filming a Western, Sacrilege, which he describes as “Unforgiven, by way of H.P....
Billy the Brit
Liverpool native Frederick W. Nolan is not only one of the world’s foremost scholars on the American West—in fact he cofounded the English...
Many a River
It happened again and again, families torn asunder by the sudden onrush of horseback red raiders. One such was the Barfields of Arkansas who made...