Buddies in the Saddle

Matt Pizzolato argued this past week on his blog that what we need is more people reading westerns. The world, he says, would be a bett...

Nothing like country for a broken-hearted love song. Coming up: Carol Buchanan, God's Thunderbolt; review and interview

Had occasion this week to be in downtown Palm Springs, where the new Marilyn Monroe sculpture has been installed across the street f...

I didn’t expect much from this book, but it turned out to be full of surprises. Early westerns about parsons tend either toward the sacch...

Montana cowboys, c1910 Here’s another set of terms (including names of some forgotten people) gleaned from early western novels. Defini...

This is a gem of a western. Randolph Scott plays a captain in the U.S. cavalry, stationed in Texas in the aftermath of the Civil War. So-...

Rex Beach Patti Abbott over at her blog is forever bringing up topics about books and movies that turn into brainteasers. They ...