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...
Entertaining the Masses
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Western Books & Movies
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,...
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.”...
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...
It Happened in the West
A Tennessean by birth, James A. Crutchfield (Jim to his friends) says he became a Westerner by choice, and when he has the choice, his preferred...
“The Devil Always Gets the Best Lines”
There’s something comforting about being on Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch, up in Newhall, California. Passing through the gate and onto the lot, there’s...
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...
Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens
Four wayfarers on the Mittie Stephens flee their past. Bobby Randow, plagued by temporary amnesia, runs from a midnight gunfight. Spunky Madame...