Buddies in the Saddle

Turkey shopping I have been drifting this week in a kind of fog, drawn in directions that seem of import for a while  and then dissol...

Mining is a frequent theme in early frontier fiction, though few writers actually take us into the mines, where the work is done. One no...

A change of pace today at BITS—a baker’s dozen of western movie and TV themes. Click through on any of the titles and give a listen at Y...

Morning sky Change of pace this weekend as I recovered from a four-day “chemo hangover” (fatigue, no interest in food). An apartment m...

This short novel is a curious cross between a standard western and an Agatha Christie murder mystery. The central character, Oliver Colf...

Not many viewers will ever have seen this as having connections with frontier fiction or the western, but they are there. The young Jack...

Autumn grasses and blooms Cancer has me rather knocked out of orbit, and I’m trying to let go of some old behavior patterns that once ...