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The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men

The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men

by | Jan 1, 2007 | Western Movies

Hollywood director Fritz Lang once remarked that Cinemascope was only good for snakes and funerals. Perhaps today he would have included snakes on a plane, but at the time he could have just as easily included cattle drives, since the best thing about Raoul Walsh’s...
Remember Little Bighorn (Nonfiction)

Remember Little Bighorn (Nonfiction)

by | Nov 1, 2006 | Western Books

This condensed but excellent presentation of Custer’s last battle is targeted for young readers, but I would suggest they not be too young. Billy Ray, 16, of Wickenburg, Arizona, agrees. “It’s not for kids under high school age,” he says. “There’s violence in it, and...
SERIESous about the West?

SERIESous about the West?

by | Nov 1, 2006 | Western Books

If you ask an Average Joe who has any inkling about Western history to name a series in the genre, he’s most likely going to name the Time-Life Old West series—a 26-volume set ranging from the “Cowboys” to the “End and the Myth.” But compiling the best of the West...
Fort Courage Isn’t Here

Fort Courage Isn’t Here

by | Nov 1, 2006 | Travel & Preservation

Bob Bluthardt is used to the question, “Where is the wall?” After all, visitors have seen those pine palisade walls in B-Westerns, and plenty of A-Westerns, and TV shows from Cheyenne (numerous forts featured, such as Fort Grant) to F Troop (Fort Courage). “I ask...
Books to Film

Books to Film

by | Nov 1, 2006 | Western Movies

The Great Train Robbery (1903) started it all. Not only was it the first narrative film ever made, but it was a Western and one based on an 1896 story by Scott Marble. The roughly 10-minute action picture was so well-received by audiences that the movie established...