A groundbreaking book on Indian photographers, plus a biography of a heroic horse, a novel of the Alamo, a forgotten U.S. marshal and the power of Western theater.
First Peoples, Original View
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Western Books & Movies
Failure is Impossible
Chris Enss’s take on woman suffrage in the West in “No Place for a Woman”; a new Spillane-Collins noir Western; the Civil War out West; and women on the range.
The Wild, Wild West
Now, more than ever, it’s time to rediscover your favorite Westerns and enjoy recent productions that keep the Old West alive in film and television.
A Fistful of Ladies
Women may love Westerns, but only a handful have directed one.
Kit Carson’s War And Peace
Doug Hocking’s latest Southwestern history Terror on the Santa Fe Trail, plus new histories on the Spanish and Mexican Southwest, the Lakota people and a Western tale of Old Arizona.
Born Outlaws
Bill Markley’s dual biography on Jesse James and Billy the Kid, a new Texas frontier history, two Western novels and a new history of the American Indian.
Bands of Brothers
Forty years after the release of The Long Riders, the actor-writer-producers, cast members and legendary director Walter Hill reflect on the making of a Western classic.
Smoke in Our Eyes
Hollywood has been making Westerns about American Indians for well over a century, but the question is, have they ever gotten it right?
Big Dreams, Far Horizons
H.W. Brands’ ambitious new history of the 19th-century West, plus a new biography of Spotted Tail, a first-person account of the Mexican War and Sandra Dallas and C.K. Crigger’s latest Western novels.
U.S. Small Arms of 1855
Review ofJohn Willyard’s U.S. Model 1855 Series of Small Arms.
Soiled Doves
Review of Jan MacKell Collins’s Good Time Girls of Colorado: A Red-Light History of the Centennial State and Good Time Girls of Arizona and New Mexico: A Red-Light History of the American Southwest.
Mountain Man Adventure
Review of Lane R. Warenski’s Grizzly Killer: White Snake.