The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
The best Jesse James movie is 2000’s Ride with the Devil, which isn’t about Jesse James. That’s okay because the best George Custer movie is Fort Apache, which isn’t about the Boy General. If you want to get down to real Jesse movies, the sad state of affairs is that...
She Taught the Kid a Lesson
So little information exists about the childhood and youth of Billy the Kid that many of us, happening upon the merest morsel, swallow it eagerly and entire. So for the best part of 50 years, El Paso journalist Bill McGaw’s account of Billy’s schooldays has been...
America Looks West
They were so bold, so brave and so bodacious that their journey would not only be America’s first great expedition, but also its most important one until man walked on the moon 165 years later. It’s impossible to talk about Lewis and Clark without using superlatives:...
America Looks West
They were so bold, so brave and so bodacious that their journey would not only be America’s first great expedition, but also its most important one until man walked on the moon 165 years later. It’s impossible to talk about Lewis and Clark without using superlatives:...
True West May/June 2024
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