Buddies in the Saddle

I have the honor of having a story featured currently at Cullen Gallagher's new webzine for western fiction, Fires on the Plain. The sto...

  Snapped this shadow of a backyard palm tree against a stucco wall at sundown recently. Yeah, that's me with cell phone in the lower l...

2002 edition This strange novel was rescued from oblivion by scholars of western literature and republished in 2002 by the University of ...

Montana cowboys, c1910 Here’s another set of terms garnered from early western novels. Definitions were discovered in various online dict...

This gem of western noir stars Robert Ryan in another of his hard-bitten and slightly psychotic roles. Shot in black and white, the story is...

I have an above-average appetite for novelty, but I have changed my blog design little since I first started blogging two years ago. The ban...

A lot of versions of this haunting story song by Townes Van Zandt. This is a favorite by two of my favorites. Coming up: Burl Ives, Robe...