This book on the Salish Indians of Montana, and their Pend d’Oreille kin, is the result of many hands from the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Cultural...
The Salish people and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Western Books & Movies
THE ART OF SERGIO LEONE’S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
I found this book to be as equally ponderous and intellectually pretentious as the subject movie was. Fawell constructs what is essentially a...
PEOPLE OF THE MOON
People of the Moon is part of the Gears’ First North American series, and this 13th installment focuses on the Chaco Anasazi, who lived in New...
EYE OF THE WOLF
When Evil rides its pale horse across the Wind River Reservation, thoughtful Father John O’Malley and impetuous attorney Vicky Holden face a...
Bad Guy Tracks Good
Whether reporting on actual artifacts or proverbial, W.C. Jameson’s research scoops a prospector’s pan of information about locating lost treasures....
Lost Riders of the Segregated Cinema
They were the trailblazers of their day—a visionary group of actors, writers, directors, producers and businessmen whose stage was the old Negro...
Stark Visions of Frontier History
Last year marked the first time since Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves (1990) that a Western was at the center of a broad and often contentious...
Rider of the Purple Prose
The Western novel became a reality around the turn of the 20th century. But no one else stamped the Western bookshelf as much as the Ohio baseball...
Tracking Randisi’s Volumes
With hundreds of books written, edited or scratched onto some kind of paper, that sort of evidence could mark Robert J. Randisi as a prolific...
Zorro Makes its Mark
For a guy who never existed, Zorro has had quite a year. April saw the publication of Zorro, the first serious fictional treatment of America’s...
Riding the Hi-Lo Country with Ol’ Max
In 1,018 years, Max Evans has done just about everything and somehow lived through it—cowboy, calf roper, artist, prospector, mystic, actor,...
Walking the Line – Johnny Cash Biopic
When watching a movie, sometimes it’s easy to forget that those are real people behind the roles. They bring to their characters their own...