The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men
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)
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?
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
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...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
