Making his movie debut as the cowboy fiddler in last year’s Cowboys & Aliens, Rex Rideout is a 19th-century music historian who can often be...
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Western Movies
The Lone Rango
One film that touched everyone—from the kiddies to us grizzled veterans—was 2011’s Rango. We enjoyed it more because we understood all the inside...
Clint The Icon of a Generation
Clint Eastwood is a mystery. He’s been a cowboy, a cop, a National Geographic photojournalist, a clown, a honky-tonk singer, a jazz DJ and a...
Call of the Canyon
In 1906, novelist Zane Grey visited the Arizona Territory for the first time. The Southwestern landscape fired his imagination; after a few return...
Butch is Back!
We’ve seen them ride off into the sunset at the end of the story, but what happens when the heroes and outlaws, the men of myth and grand adventure,...
Home on the Rango
Since the movie Rango opened nationally in March, the critics have struggled to get a fix on it. They can’t seem to make up their minds whether...
Robert Conrad Dares Ya
Robert Conrad is tough. He might even be tougher than James West, the rough-and-ready secret agent he played on television in the CBS series The...
What the Cowboy Life Taught Raoul Walsh
Note to aspiring filmmakers: If you're looking for a film school, give Raoul Walsh's curriculum a try. It's called Life. Before he was old enough to...
Grand Theft Stagecoach
Since Red Dead Redemption was released in May 2010, many gamers have taken to calling the video game “Grand Theft Stagecoach,” a play on the name of...
“That Cockeyed Little Old Thing”
The Rounders was Director and Screenwriter Burt Kennedy’s first shot at making a Western comedy, and it’s one of his best. Other movies about aging...
The Bad Boy Behind the Mystery Man
He did not wear a mask or carry silver bullets. The Virginian was designed to be the first Mystery man of Old West fiction. He did not wear a mask...
The Bad Boy Behind the Mystery Man
He did not wear a mask or carry silver bullets. The Virginian was designed to be the first Mystery man of Old West fiction. He did not wear a mask...