Saving the Wrong Guys

Saving the Wrong Guys

Many classic Westerns feature the timeworn device of the last-minute cavalry rescue. The baddies are Indians, besieging a wagon train or surrounding a mixed group of stranded stagecoach passengers. Just when things appear bleakest, in ride the boys in blue, guidons...
From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol

From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol

For your reading pleasure: 137 performances you can sink your teeth into, plus chow to fill your tummy, bookstores to get lost in and rivers to float on while you’re in town. You can’t beat that with a stick. Baxter Black Baxter Black famously, and poetically, said:...
From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol

From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol

For your reading pleasure: 137 performances you can sink your teeth into, plus chow to fill your tummy, bookstores to get lost in and rivers to float on while you’re in town. You can’t beat that with a stick. Baxter Black Baxter Black famously, and poetically, said:...
Heil Hitler Away! (English Version)

Heil Hitler Away! (English Version)

For those of you who may have wondered what book laid on the reading table next to Adolph Hitler’s bed, you might be surprised to learn it was likely a Western. In his 1976 prison memoir Spandau: The Secret Diaries, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the...