No, they don’t make ’em like they used to. But, there is new programming out there with AMC’s “The Son” and a couple of others. You just gotta go look for ’em. – Ed. From The Westerner Blog The Western was a staple of Hollywood motion picture productions from theContinue Reading
HUCK OUT WEST By Robert Coover Norton, $26.95, 308 pages It’s hard to imagine a gutsier move by a novelist than to take up where Mark Twain left off. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is about as seminal a work of fiction as we have in our literary history. OfContinue Reading
DODGE CITY: WYATT EARP, BAT MATTERSON, AND THE WICKEDEST TOWN IN THE AMERICAN WEST By Tom Clavin St. Martin’s Press, $29.99, 400 pages For those of us who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, popular TV programs were our introduction to Dodge City and Wyatt Earp and BatContinue Reading
By Jane Candia Coleman CHIEF JOSEPH; TRAIL OF GLORY AND SORROW By Ted Meyers Hancock Publishers Ltd. Surrey, British Columbia – Blaine Washington ISBN 978-0-88839-743-7 EAN 0-88839-743-7 As a boy, Canadian writer and historian Ted Meyers became fascinated with the history and legends of the Northwest Native American tribes.Continue Reading
Pierce Brosnan stars as Eli McCullough in “The Son” on AMC By Harry Alexander / SoAzNewsX Numerous “critics” aren’t too pleased with AMC’s new series, “The Son.” The critics also didn’t like “Texas Rising.” But, those of us who love to watch Westerns at the movies or on television offerContinue Reading
THE APACHE WARS: THE HUNT FOR GERONIMO, THE APACHE KID, AND THE CAPTIVE BOY WHO STARTED THE LONGEST WAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY By Paul Andrew Hutton Crown Publishing Group, $30, 544 pages On a March day in 1851 after he and friends had spent time trading goods with residentsContinue Reading
By Emil Franzi TOM PREZELSKI. Californio Lancers: The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West 1863-1866. University of Oklahoma Press. Cloth, $32.95, oupress.com The story of the Hispanic volunteers first conscripted into being Americans. A whole lot of folks from Texas to California found themselves in theContinue Reading
Article 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 as cowboys and ranchers, shaped by a set of values from a different age, confrontedContinue Reading