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
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Huck Out West’
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
Read moreBOOK REVIEW: ‘Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West’
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
Read moreJane Candia Coleman: “Chief Joseph – Trail of Glory and Sorrow” book review
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
Read more‘The Son’ brings the Old West back to television
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,
Read moreFred J. Eckert: ‘The Apache Wars’ book review
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
Read more‘Californio Lancers: The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West 1863-1866’ book review
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
Read more‘Goin’ Crazy With Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends,’ by Max Evans, as told to Robert Nott book review
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
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