By Bob Garver The new version of “The Magnificent Seven” (a remake of a 1960 Western that I have not seen, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai,” which I have) is one
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Preserving the Culture of the Old West
Book and movie reviews of Westerns.
By Bob Garver The new version of “The Magnificent Seven” (a remake of a 1960 Western that I have not seen, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “The Seven Samurai,” which I have) is one
Read moreTHE NEW TRAIL OF TEARS: HOW WASHINGTON IS DESTROYING AMERICAN INDIANS By Naomi Schaefer Riley Encounter Books, $23.99, 232 pages American Indians have the highest poverty rate of any racial group in the country. Think
Read moreArticle appeared at the Southern Arizona News-Examiner: By W.K. Stratton Around the time of Sputnik and the advent of color TV, a new kind of Western novel began to appear. Here, pickups challenged the horse
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