On an artist’s studio tour, a decade or two ago, an elderly woman, upon seeing a sketch with very straight pencil guidelines, asked the artist, Ed...
Married to the Camera
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Western Books & Movies
3:10 to Yuma, on Track?
Everybody wants to make a Western. It’s a fact. Few directors of note, if you were to ask them, would say, “I’m not interested in Westerns; I have...
For the Love of a Horse
These true tales begin with Evans’ first horse, Cricket, a $10 steel bay that accompanied Evans across the Texas plain in search of rabbits. Among...
Legacy of the Tetons: Homesteading in Jackson Hole
In the story of Mormon Row near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, all of the classic Western settlers’ tribulations played havoc on the May and Moulton...
Seven Trails West
If a student of the exploration and expansion of the American West were to have only one book to cover it all, this big volume would be the one to...
The Cherokee Trail of Tears
Duane King expertly recounts this tragic tale with historic maps, diaries, military accounts and oral traditions. What he does best, however, is...
The Flintlock: Its Origin, Development, and Use
The flintlock reigned supreme for 200 years, making it the longest used form of firearms ignition in history. Originally published in Sweden in...
Atascocita Gold
Two happily unemployed cowpokes are unfairly arrested after a card game inside a Kansas saloon. Given the choice between jail or helping an old man...
Blood Trail to Kansas
Peeking under the batwings of the Four Bits Saloon, tomboy Joey Shea is sure she has found the right man to help her strapped father Ted Shea....
The English Horses
This 1800s New Mexico Territory range war tale includes barbed wire, rustlers, mustangers, rape, child abuse and unrequited love. The novel is...
Cowboys & Aliens
What makes the graphic novel and comic series Cowboys & Aliens particularly good is the way it unites Apaches and cowboys to fight a supertech...
Supernatural Snipes
Gallow Walker, a supernatural Western by Intandem Films, stars Wesley Snipes as a gunfighter who carries a curse from his ex-nun mom. Apparently...