In this second book in the Holmes on the Range series, brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer pin on railroad detective badges and swear to...
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Western Books & Movies
A People at War
This is not, exactly, a history of the homefront during the Civil War. Its subtitle, “Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War,” includes the...
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
The Civil War was traumatic to most Americans, but it was a double whammy to the Cherokees. Already badly split into warring factions over...
A Ranger War & Billy the Kid
-"That avaricious Americanized way of thinking measured individual achievement in terms of acquisition. Rapaciously conquering and dominating the...
A Girl is a Gun
Like most French film directors associated with the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, Luc Moullet adored the American “primitives,” directors like Sam...
Seraphim Falls
While Seraphim Falls has all the trappings of a traditional Western, at heart, it’s a metaphoric chase picture, more Les Miserables than Last Train...
Rio Bravo Still Sings
Some Westerns grow in stature, like The Searchers (1956), while others stay comfortably familiar, like The Magnificent Seven (1960). Some films...
Rio Bravo Still Sings
Some Westerns grow in stature, like The Searchers (1956), while others stay comfortably familiar, like The Magnificent Seven (1960). Some films...
A Girl is a Gun
Like most French film directors associated with the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, Luc Moullet adored the American “primitives,” directors like Sam...
Seraphim Falls
While Seraphim Falls has all the trappings of a traditional Western, at heart, it’s a metaphoric chase picture, more Les Miserables than Last Train...
Month of Atonement
This must be the month of atonement because culpability for ancient and unaddressed sins is the overriding theme of the summer, on TV and in the...
Crazy Spy Gadgets from CBS’s Wild Wild West
James West was the American Bond on horseback. When he rode on screen in the 1965 delirious madhouse CBS series Wild Wild West, he, in the person of...