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Building Your Western Library: Andrew Patrick Nelson A Western film historian shares his passion for writing and cinema.
Andrew Patrick Nelson is assistant professor of film history at Montana State University. Though born and raised in Calg…
Objections Overruled! John Wayne didn’t want Kim Darby in True Grit.
Kim Darby made her mark in the 1969 version of True Grit. She was not an obvious choice for the lead of Mattie Ross, wh…
John Ford and Harry Goulding Harry Goulding, proprietor of Goulding’s trading post on the Arizona-Utah border had a brilliant idea to help the economy.
The year was 1938 and the Navajo were in the deep depths of the Great Depression. Harry Goulding, proprietor of Gouldin…
Those Old B-Westerns Everyone has their own special memories of going to the movies in the days before television when a bag of popcorn cost a dime and a coke cost a nickel.
Someone asked me the other day what it was like watching those B-Western movies in those little, cracker box theaters du…
How Tombstone Got The Right Look An authentic story. A creative genius. But the costumes took the film to the highest stage of achievement.
You can’t have an authentic set without authentic costumes. But even though Tombstone would begin filming more than two …
The Absolute Best Historically Accurate Westerns When Hollywood got It right.
To put it mildly, we at True West have been overjoyed—nay, overwhelmed—by our readers’ responses to the deceptively simp…
DVD Review: The Law And Jake Wade
Outlaw-turned-marshal Jake Wade (Robert Taylor) figures he’s squared his debt to former accomplice Clint (Richard Widmar…
A Fool’s Errand Does such a thing as a historically accurate Western exist?
The Western, be it a novel or a film, always carries with it the burden of history. For much of our nation’s existence, …
The Wild West of Canvas and Nitrate A groundbreaking exhibition catalog of Western art and film.
Once Upon a Time…the Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, edited by Mary-Dailey Desmarais and Thomas Brent Smith (5 …