Western art historian Larry Len Peterson has reached new heights in The American West Imagined: Gems from the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction (The Coeur...
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Western Books & Movies
Edward S. Curtis and the Hollywood Headhunters
The famed photographer's leap into silent films was anything but successful. While Edward S. Curtis’s photographs, and especially his 20...
La Frontiera
Jeff Guinn’s new book War on the Border, a fresh biography of Custer, a collection of Western classics, and updated histories of the Blackfoot...
L.Q. Jones, a Villain With a Grin
The highly respected Texas actor and director reflects on a 50-year career in Hollywood. L.Q. Jones, the sandy-haired giant with the high...
Riding the Rails into History
The well-known story of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Irish and Chinese men who built it has been recounted many times,...
Blood on the Trail
The latest biography of Daniel Boone, plus new bios of Doc Holliday and Buffalo Bill, and histories of the Chiricahuas and California good-time...
The Wild Wilder West
"My parents loved Westerns. My mother’s family were pioneers; they were the first four wagons into Seattle, Washington. When I was five, in a little...
Great News
News of the World, Tom Hanks’ first Western, is one of the best films of the year. While Texas novelist Paulette Jiles liked the idea of News of the...
Home on the Range
Jim Hoy’s highly personal biography of the Kansas Flint Hills, two new biographies of Butch Cassidy, Bill Neal’s autobiography and Deborah Swenson’s...
Westerns Down Under
In 1906, just three years after the 12-minute The Great Train Robbery, the first ever hour-long film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, another...
Border Bandits, Outlaws and Cattle Thieves
Samuel K. Dolan returns to the border with Hell Paso, plus new biographies of Wild Bill Hickok and Montanan Sarah Bickford, a history of Texas in...
Fighting for Honor
A Texas Rangers historian reflects on one-sided history and the danger it presents to our understanding of the past—and the present. The Texas...