Western Books & Movies
Pistolero Pasta

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...

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Earning His Retirement

Earning His Retirement

“I’m not writing anything now,” Fred Grove says from his Tucson, Arizona, home. “I feel kind of lost, but I think it’s just as well to hang ’em up.”...

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Bad to the Bone

Bad to the Bone

Deadwood’s real Ellis Alfred “Al” Swearengen was every bit as evil and ill-tempered as HBO Deadwood’s reel Al Swearengen, who is played by Ian...

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Lost to History

Lost to History

A few years before the Civil War, one of the most violent episodes in Western American trail history played out on a mountain meadow in Southern...

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