Just a short update. No new episode today but next week well kick off the Billy the Kid series. In the meantime, check out ...

Larry McMurtry, the famed Texas novelist, screenwriter and bookseller, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Lonesome Dove," at his bookstore, Booked Up No. 1. The Wild West provides the backdrop for ...

The Old West clings to our imaginations like trail dirt on worn leather boots – persistent, comforting and caked with nostalgia for the experiences (real or not) that put it there. Those dusty dreams ...

From True Grit to No Country for Old Men, novel adaptations have given the Western some of its greatest films, exploring the legend of the gunslinger and life on the American frontier. The history of ...

Beyond the easy attraction of ‘cowboying’, the quartet’s true heroes are the women of the west, with their preternatural ...

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