Review of Prentiss Ingraham’s Buffalo Bill Cody, A Man of the West.
Western Showman Extraordinare
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Western Books & Movies
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.
Born to the West
Robert Carradine reflects on his career in Westerns and his family’s rich legacy in Hollywood.
Living and Dying Along the Rio Grande
Review of Mike Blakely’s, A Sinister Splendor: A Mexican War Novel, an ambitious novel of the Mexican War.
Chronicling the West
Western novelists and historians keep the Old West alive through hard work and their dedication to the crafts of writing and research.
Wild Western Action
Review of Eric Red’s Hanging Fire.
A War to Remember
Review of Mark Santiago’s A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799.
Franco Nero
The once and future “Django” is still a star 55 years after being cast in his first Western role.