by Tim Lasiuta | 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...
by Bob Boze Bell | Oct 2, 2006 | Inside History
December 17, 1881 Cowboy James Talbot gets word that his Texas pards are in a jam—again. Hitching a ride on a passing wagon, he and former Deputy Marshal Dan Jones, a.k.a. Red Bill, make their way to the heart of the trouble. Driver Newt Miller reins up the wagon at...
by Jane C. Bischoff | Sep 2, 2006 | Art, Guns and Culture
A buffalo by any other name would still … not get the ink of Bill Cody. C.J. Jones knew that firsthand. He was a hunter and scout; he even rode with Cody after the Civil War. And both men took on the handle “Buffalo” for their shooting skills. Bill went on to a...
by TW Editors | Sep 2, 2006 | Art, Guns and Culture
A young teen, in the 1880s, heads west to Montana to try his hand at cowboying. His passion for adventure converts him to the wilds of the Bonanza State. Before long, he trades his quirt for a paintbrush and goes on to create more than 4,000 works of art. His name is...
by Allen Barra | Sep 2, 2006 | Western Movies
“The West,” Larry McMurtry wrote in his 1968 essay “Southwestern Literature,” “has produced many good books but perhaps, as yet, no great books.” That was 17 years before the publication of Lonesome Dove, which was to win the Pulitzer Prize and, in the minds of many,...