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...
Tracking Randisi’s Volumes
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Western Books & Movies
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...
Word Baron
In over 75 books from the Rivers West series to those on the Baron family of Texas, Jory Sherman has brought to life a complex mix of stories and...
Keepin’ Our Love Alive and Kickin’
A box of Quaker Oats was the first product endorsement by the King of the Cowboys, and ever since 1943, he has lent his name and smiling face to cap...
Entertaining the Masses
With a face seen by millions because it has been on more than 100 TV documentaries and a career as a professor of history at the University of New...
Pistolero Pasta
A bit of mystery surrounds the once popular genre of films, indelicately called Spaghetti Westerns during their heyday. For many years, a trilogy of...
From Chicken Doctor to Cowboy Chronicler
This year, Dusty Richards will see his 67th book published, some under his own name, many others under a bevy of pseudonyms. He has also written...
Spielberg’s Western Saga
Already TNT is promoting its summer miniseries Into the West as a historically accurate saga that will tell both sides of the American frontier. Of...
Writing at the Bend of the River
As a young man, Bill Gulick thought his future was on the baseball diamond. He was battling his way up through the semi-pro leagues, when at age 21,...
They Broke the Mold
Ask anyone who knows anything about those times and they’ll tell you that Texas will never see another criminal like him. Charles Sanderson Brogdon,...