Buddies in the Saddle

Angus, Nebraska Sandhills (Photo, Ron Scheer) BITS is going on hiatus indefinitely while I take care of some health-related matters. H...

Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1961 novel of the same name ( reviewed here recently ), this film offers an interesting example of ada...

Below is a list of mostly forgotten terms, people, and the occasional song, drawn from a reading of  frontier fiction, 1880-1915. Each ...

In a John Reese western, nothing is likely to be what it seems. Despite a wide, well-traveled trail across the genre’s terrain, ...

Despite the raggedy and apparently pirated copy of this film currently showing on amazon, this movie shines through as a quiet g...

This dark western novella from Texas writer Julia Robb begins appropriately with the gravestone of a murdered man. The stone lea...

The Birds Time marches on . . . 1/12, Sunday. Thanks to Lynda, who had the grit to spend  an eternity on the pho...