Pierce Burns brings us the true story of his family during the Depression years in West Texas. The family ranch, begun in 1873 by his grandfather,...
A Few Good Horses (Nonfiction)
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Western Books & Movies
Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier (Nonfiction)
The primary purpose of the Western frontier army was to subdue Indians. The reason it took so long was because the Indians could probably smell...
Arc of the Medicine Line (Nonfiction)
Here is the story of the mapping of the “Medicine Line,” the segment of the U.S.-Canada border across the Great Plains (named so by the Indians...
Inventing the Fiesta City (Nonfiction)
What is the corazón (heart) of San Antonio as reflected in the April citywide festival called Fiesta? Like so much of Southwestern culture, the...
Stricken Field: The Little bighorn Since 1876 (Nonfiction)
This is the first full history of the most famous battleground in the West, the Little Bighorn. After re-sketching the dramatic events of the...
Pat Green’s Dance Halls & Dreamers (Nonfiction)
“If I had every beer that has spilled on that dance floor, I could drink for a lifetime,” Country star Kevin Fowler says of the 1910 Coupland Dance...
Close-Ups on the Outcasts
Although director Arthur Penn made only three Westerns, his ranking is secure as one of the genre’s greatest interpreters. Actually, Penn’s first...
Comanche Moon
I won’t poke any more holes into what promises to be the final production in the Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove series, starring Val Kilmer (Inish...
There Will Be Oscars
The single element that both connected and distinguished David Milch's HBO series Deadwood from the Westerns that preceded it was that the corrupt...
The J. Golden Kimball Stories (Fiction)
This is a serious look at a humorous figure of the Mormon church, J. Golden Kimball. His gaunt figure, magpie voice and fiery delivery made him the...
Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Nonfiction)
This famed Apache left historians with little written record with which to study his life. Although Dan Thrapp's biography adequately utilizes...
Walk Proud, Stand Tall (Fiction)
Lin Garrett is 70 years old, down on his luck and living on a "poor farm" in Flagstaff, Arizona. Suffering from arthritis and kidney failure, he...