Harried from his Virginia home by a murder he didn’t commit, Mountain Man Matt Slaughter finds a wild Garden of Eden in the Big Horns, a loving...
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Western Books & Movies
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Richards, who writes well for a professor, retells the rather familiar story of the California Gold Rush’s aftermath, but he tells it from an...
The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
The best Jesse James movie is 2000’s Ride with the Devil, which isn’t about Jesse James. That’s okay because the best George Custer movie is Fort...
Bandidas
Bandidas (Fox Home Video; $29.98) Viva Penelope! Viva Salma! And, while we’re at it, Viva Maria! (1965), the sexy cinematic grandmother of...
On Location!
Harry Goulding sure didn’t come across as a Hollywood Western hero. But he was. Harry got there by a meandering route, though. In the 1920s, he and...
The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
The best Jesse James movie is 2000’s Ride with the Devil, which isn’t about Jesse James. That’s okay because the best George Custer movie is Fort...
Bandidas
Bandidas (Fox Home Video; $29.98) Viva Penelope! Viva Salma! And, while we’re at it, Viva Maria! (1965), the sexy cinematic grandmother of...
On Location!
Harry Goulding sure didn’t come across as a Hollywood Western hero. But he was. Harry got there by a meandering route, though. In the 1920s, he and...
The Train Man
The producers of the movie Wild, Wild West were looking for some trains. Not just any trains. One had to look like a post-Civil War locomotive...
The Train Man
The producers of the movie Wild, Wild West were looking for some trains. Not just any trains. One had to look like a post-Civil War locomotive...
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’amor: The Adventure Stories
Louis L’Amour has thrilled countless readers with the adventures of Hondo, Jubal Sackett and Radigan. But the “Yondering Man” from North Dakota also...
Heaven is a Long Way Off
During an earlier episode in this “Rendezvous” series, Mountain Man Sam Morgan married a Crow Indian girl in Wyoming against her family’s wishes. In...