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.
Bands of Brothers
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Western Books & Movies
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.
Western Showman Extraordinare
Review of Prentiss Ingraham’s Buffalo Bill Cody, A Man of the West.
In Hell Junction, Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Review of Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins’ Last Stage to Hell Junction.
Soldiering On The Frontier
Review of Eli Paul’s The Frontier Army: Episodes from Dakota and the West.
True Grit’s 50th Anniversary
John Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance as Rooster Cogburn in the Paramount film culminated the greatest year in Western film history.
Bloody War, Bitter Peace
Review of historian Robert N. Watt’s “With My Face to My Bitter Foes”: Nana’s War 1880-1881.
California Robber Baron
Review of Roland De Wolk’s American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford.