The song “Home on the Range” is filled with both ideal and real images of the West, and the author uses each stanza to examine the truth of these...
Oh, Give me a Home
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Western Books & Movies
Beyond the Missouri
Richard Etulain is best known as a scholar for his expertise in the cultural and intellectual—and, especially, literary—history of the American...
Discovering Natural Horsemanship
This is the story of a writer’s journey that turns to admiration and respect, sharing one man’s curiosity with horses and what he learned along the...
Guns of Vengance Trail
Coming from the armories of film studios, including 20th Century Fox, Stembridge Gun Rentals, RKO and MGM, all of which sold their firearms...
The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men
Hollywood director Fritz Lang once remarked that Cinemascope was only good for snakes and funerals. Perhaps today he would have included snakes on a...
Broken Trail
Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem a tad presumptuous for the makers of this Western to already be referring to it as legendary? I expect they...
Western Film Noir Vol. 1
Charles Marquis Warren took his Westerns seriously—he created Rawhide and directed the first Gunsmoke. He cared about his Westerns, if Little Big...
Did She Strike Down Custer?
The end of the world began that day. Not slowly or quietly, not piece by piece or by degrees, but as a calamity that brings another and another and...
Hey Diddle Diddle (Fiction)
Rock ‘n’ Rolling wild animals rev up this adaptation of the familiar nursery rhyme using a blue fiddle, a mic and an electric guitar. The richly...
Leroy The Cowboy (Fiction)
Although this is a book of fictional stories, the characters, horses and experiences are based on reality. Real-life working cowhand Leroy Webb...
The Little Cow in Valle Grande (Fiction)
Aimed for children 2-8, this bilingual story is about a calf named Buddie who wants to find out what awaits him at the top of a nearby mountain....
Wishful Watoosi (Fiction)
Its not every day that you meet a black and white spotted horse with a low self-esteem. Watoosi is embarrassed because he doesn’t look like any of...