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...
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Western Books & Movies
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...
Camino del Norte
Despite its Spanish title, this book is mostly about the I-35 corridor and the Texas cities along this north-south highway: San Antonio, Austin,...
Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve
Beyond either side of Interstate I-25, which runs north and south through the center of New Mexico, many natural wonders await the curious. I know,...
The Tobermory Manuscript
This mystery is centered around an actual 1870s land scheme in which an Englishman named Lord Dunraven and his cohorts fraudulently acquired...
The Hart Brand
Fourteen-year-old Caleb Hart is ready to live the American dream when he ventures west to ride the Hart Brand range for his uncompromising uncle,...