Sure, Midland, Texas, has been practically synonymous with oil in recent years, but we must not forget that even the Permian Basin was cattle...
Cowboys Who Rode Proudly
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Western Books & Movies
Bits & Spurs: Motifs, Techniques and Modern Makers
The Martins have long been the authority on bit and spur makers of the Old West, whom they’ve discussed in earlier books, and they continue the...
The Lewis & Clark Trail: Yesterday and Today
With the flood of Lewis and Clark tomes in the past year, it is quite refreshing to read William Hill’s latest book. As with his previous books,...
Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers
Between 1841-66, nearly 500,000 pioneers went west. Forty thousand of them were children, and one in five women gave birth on the trail. Rarely,...
The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915
According to Szasz, religious clergy were as common in the American West as cowboys and miners. He does a good job of proving it with literate...
On a Silver Desert
Winner of a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, this first-ever biography of Ernest Haycox is by his son and namesake. Haycox was probably...
In His Blood
Before you dismiss Thomas Eidson as some Easterner who doesn’t know a whit about the Old West, think again. Sure, Eidson is executive vice president...
Boone’s Lick
Larry McMurtry’s novel, Boone’s Lick, is under negotiation to be directed by Lasse Hallstrom. The Universal Studios film will be adapted by McMurtry...
Skeletons of the Sahara
American sailors shipwrecked off the North African Coast in 1815 are sold into slavery in DreamWorks and Intermedia’s Skeletons of the Sahara, based...
Right Brain Overload
Cotton Smith is a right-brain guy. He paints. He draws. He develops creative ad and marketing campaigns. He has written poetry, plays, short...
Custer’s Last Film
In his own time George A. Custer was quite the celebrity-soldier, so it is certainly appropriate that he has become such a frequent character in the...
Training Painted Paints
It’s a breathtaking scene in a beautiful movie. Hundreds of wild horses run free across the Montana prairie in the final scene of Hidalgo. The...