Western Books Crossing My Path My mailboxes (real and virtual) have been filling up with news, notes and announcements of the end of 2020 books and...
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Western Books & Movies
Western Books: An Officer of Honor and Grit
A remarkable biography of U.S. cavalryman Lt. Powhatan Clark, plus a new history of the Civil War in the Southwest, big new biographies of Billy the...
From Kicking Bird to Malachi
Graham Greene’s storied 45-year career in film and television has left a trail of excellence. One of the most recent of Graham Greene’s 150-plus...
The View Ahead
In the last quarter of the year, publishers are busily touting end-of-the year books and next year’s early releases. From advance copies I have received, I believe fans of Western history and fiction will be busy for the next few months buying and reading a bounty of offerings from publishers, small and large.
The End Of The Trail
Producer Bobby Roberts’ Western ensemble Monte Walsh remains a classic 50 years later.
Blind Pig Bonanza
A new biography on the bonanza-seeking Earps, plus new Western histories and biographies on an Old West rifle, Spanish Texas, a coal war gunman and a Sioux War reporter.
Last Ride Across Hi-Lo
Max Evans’s final novel The King of Taos, a literary Western, and new biographies of outlaws Cherokee Bill and Willis Newton.
The Horizon West
Western book publishing is experiencing a banner year in 2020 despite the pandemic.
Duels, Dice And The Sporting Life
Peter Brand’s long-awaited biography of Johnny Tyler, a new Pleasant Valley Western, biographies of a Texas Ranger and Calamity Jane
and the latest interpretation of Tombstone.
It Made ’Em Cry
The family classic Old Yeller is poignantly and lovingly recalled by its youngest cast members.
First Peoples, Original View
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.
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.