This is a haunting story about one woman’s journey into her past. Herself one-quarter Dakota, Wilson embarks on a car trip through South Dakota’s...
Spirit Car
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Western Books & Movies
Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Not four months after the bloodshed at Wounded Knee, 75 Lakota Indians—including 23 presumed “hostiles” who had been confined at Fort Sheridan,...
F Troop
F Troop was a cavalry comedy that lasted two seasons, 1965-67, and burrowed into the pop cultural cache of a generation who likened it to the...
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West was a hit for boomer kids who came through the glut of TV Westerns in the late 1950s, only to stumble into puberty with James...
Cheyenne
Television Westerns crossed the line from adolescents to adults in September 1955, when Gunsmoke, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and Cheyenne all...
Track Of The Cat
Duke’s company Batjac produced Track of the Cat (1954), which has been unavailable as a DVD until now. Like The High and the Mighty (1954), which...
Rawhide
The dogies kept a-rollin’. Eight seasons (1959-1966) of rollin’, actually, from San Antonio, Texas, to Sedalia, Kansas, in rain and wind and...
The Western Godfather
It didn't surprise me that Kurt Russell was willing to go off topic during our interview last April. After all, it was the end of the day and he was...
Stuck to Her Dream
"I buried Pecker in his favorite place. I’d seen him come to pray here sometimes early of a morning when the sun was just coming over the eastern...
San Juan Bonanza
Duane Smith is the finest mining historian and writer I personally know. With this new book, that is both a blessing and a curse. The book is...
Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas
Probably because he also writes novels, Haley gives us the opposite of a stodgy textbook history of the Lone Star State. Best of all, he is candid....
Making Home Work
In the second half of the 19th century, the white, middle-class concept of home was assumed to be a perfect model for civilization in the American...