What really happened on that lonely stretch of highway? Tom Mix had the pedal to the metal on his bright-yellow Cord Phaeton sports car as he...
The Day Tom Mix Died
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Western Movies
Blazing Bergman!
A half-century after Andrew Bergman penned Blazing Saddles, the epic comic Western is still a cultural tour de force. Sure, Andrew Bergman has...
Best of the West: Western Movies
Everybody’s West: 2024 will be remembered as a bellwether year for diversity in Western film productions and subject matter. “Compared to the 20th...
Silver Screen Buckaroos
Films and television shows featuring real working cowboys have made America’s icon famous worldwide since 1894. In America’s first...
The Real McCoy
Wyoming cowboy and Army cavalry and horse artillery veteran Tim McCoy brought realism to the silver screen. For a lad of Irish-born parents, his...
Nogales, Oklahoma
In the mid-50's Hollywood came out to the historic San Rafael Ranch, east of Nogales and filmed the long-running Broadway Rogers and Hammerstein...
Jack London at the Movies
For nearly 120 years, filmmakers from around the world have adapted the American adventurer’s novels into captivating films and television. Read...
The Highest Peak
Best of the Mountain Man Movies On the eve of the release of The Revenant, inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass’s fight for life, the film...
Journey to Lone Pine
The iconic Western film location is celebrated every year at the internationally famous Lone Pine Film Festival. Among the hundreds of long-running...
Django Unchained
A decade since the highest-grossing Western was released, the film remains controversial. There are many disconcerting issues that a...
Tombstone: A Reckoning
Thirty years after the popular film’s release, it might be the most influential Western of all time. In 1993, Walt Disney’s Hollywood...
Dana Delany
The woman who wanted the West tells her side of the story of Tombstone and more. "I’m a huge fan of the Western,” Dana Delany says. “I just...