by Various Authors | Feb 24, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
From Montana to Texas, a summer road trip is a great way to immerse yourself in the history and heritage of the American West. I remember my parents loading my sister, Katherine, and me into the family station wagon. It was the late 1960s and our vacation...
by Henry C. Parke | Feb 24, 2023 | Classic True West, Features & Gunfights
Robert Duvall talks about the iconic Lonesome Dove, on the cusp of a special cast reunion. From the True West Archives With seven Emmys won, Lonesome Dove is unquestionably television’s most respected Western achievement. The roles were so good, the...
by Henry C. Parke | Feb 24, 2023 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies
The actor is not ready to hang up his hat and spurs. Robert Duvall would be one of the finest actors in the history of film if he never appeared in a single Western. And he would be one of the finest actors ever to appear in Westerns if he’d only been in Lonesome...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 24, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
John Boessenecker’s new biography of Black Bart, plus three new history-travel books, a Southern Plains adventure and a collection of rip-roaring Western tales. Who really was Black Bart? Prolific, award-winning Western historian John Boessenecker seeks to answer this...
by Kenyon Bennett | Feb 24, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
L.R. Millican’s life in Lampasas, Texas, was both lucky and legendary. Lampasas, for a time, was on the edge of a lively frontier in Texas, and much blood spilled as that border exhaled dust and stampeded westward. Rowdy cowboys, outlaws and others shooting up saloons...