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
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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...
From Errol Flynn to Owen Wister
"I love Newport because it is history preserved,” John Jakes writes in the afterword of his latest novel, The Gods of Newport. “I contrast this with...
One Hundred Years of Winchester Cartridge Boxes, 1856-1956
This first and only definitive work completely devoted to Winchester cartridge boxes is a worthy reference. With more than 1,100 full color...
Identity By Design
Gazing upon these dresses of hide and canvas, ornamented by glass beads and quills and elk teeth, a story comes to life. Indian dresses are more...
Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier
In 1952, Haley’s excellent Fort Concho was published in a short press run that guaranteed it would become not only a classic of Texana but a rare...
The Cowboy Girl
As biographies go, this is no doubt the best I have read in years. Clayton’s narrative story of Caroline Lockhart begins in her young reporter...
Lone Star Pasts
Attempting to define the difference between memory and reality, this book essentially is a collection of essays written to honor the Texas myth...