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Western Authors
Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages
Bio/Profile
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Major Novels
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Other Books (novels, stories, sports & fishing)
Silent Movies
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Sound Movies & TV
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Audio Tapes & eBooks & Kindle Editions
Zane Grey's 'Lassiter' Books Page
Loren D. Estleman Westerns Page
Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] Page
Western Legends
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'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Elfego Baca [1865-1945] Page
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Calamity Jane {real name Martha Jane Cannary} [1852-1903]
Cowgirls site
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Wm. F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody [1845-1917]
books
B.B. Historical Center videos/DVDs
IMDb
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'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Wyatt Earp [1848-1929] Page
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John C. Fremont
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Sheriff Pat Garrett [1850-1908]
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James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickock [1837-76]
books videos/DVDs IMDb
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John Henry 'Doc' Holliday [1851-87]
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John Flint Kidder
The Nevada County Narrow Guage Railroad was the only railroad in the West
that was never robbed, even though it transported gold from the hardrock mines.
American Railroads / Nevada County Narrow Guage R.R. Section at Spirit of America Bookstore
Nevada County Narrow Guage Project {On3 display} in Grass Valley, CA
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William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson [1856-1921]
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Juaquin Murietta
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Annie Oakley [1860-1926]
books videos/DVDs
IMDb
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Pecos Bill
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Bill Pickett [1862-1932]
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James L. 'Whispering' Smith [18??-1914]
 | "Whispering Smith: His Life & Misadventures" [2007]  by Allen P. Bristow Western author Bristow covers the legend, the conflicting facts, and the Hollywood versions of real-life railroad detective James L. Smith. Sunstone Press 9x6 pb [7/2007] for $16.47 publisher book page |
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"Whispering Smith" [1906] by Frank H. Spearman [1859-1937], illustrated by N.C. Wyeth Renegade railroad employees are wrecking and robbing the trains running thru the rugged Rocky Mountains, so the railroad sends in their best detective. Kessinger Publng pb [3/2005] for $28.08 Forge mass pb [9/99] out of print/used Buccaneer Books 9x5¾ hardcover [6/95] out of print/used |
 | "Whispering Smith" color feature [Paramount Dec 1948]
A railroad detective's friend is fired, and joins a gang of train robbers; Smith is assigned to bring the man to justice, and matters are complicated by a mutual attraction with the man's wife. Directed by Leslie Fenton; based on the Spearman novel; starring Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp, William Demarest, Fay Holden, Murvyn Vye, Frank Faylen, John Eldredge, Ward Wood, J. Farrell MacDonald, Will Wright, Don Barclay, Eddy Waller, Ray Teal & Bob Kortman; WGA nomination for Best Western Script 1948 feature: Universal color DVD [6/2004] for $12.99 1948 feature: full credits at IMDb 1948 feature 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $15.81 1916 silent feature: full credits at IMDb 1926 silent feature starring H.B. Warner: full credits at IMDb 1961 TV series starring Audie Murphy: full credits at IMDb |
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Bill Tilghman: books videos/DVDs IMDb
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'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
'El Zorro' Page
The Bad Guys
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'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
Billy The Kid [1860-81] Page
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Black Bart {real name Charles E. Boles} [1830-1917]
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outlaw John Wesley Hardin [1853-95]
books videos/DVDs IMDb
"The Lawless Breed" [Universal Jan 1953]
Directed by Raoul Walsh; based on the life of John Wesley Hardin 'as written by himself'; starring Rock Hudson, Julie Adams,
Mary Castle, John McIntire, Hugh O'Brian, Dennis Weaver, Forrest Lewis & Lee Van Cleef;
full credits from IMDb
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outlaw Jesse James [1847-82]
books videos/DVDs character credits at IMDb
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"The Redemption of Jesse James: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax" [1995] by Preston Lewis A fictional account of the life & crimes of outlaw Jesse James, from the viewpoint of H.H. Lomax, who is either an eye-witness or a really good liar (or both). Random House/Domain mass pb [8/95] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/Death-legend-Will-Henry/dp/B0006ATTBA/
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bandit Thomas Edward 'Black Jack' Ketcham [1863-1901]
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gunfighter Johnny Ringo [1850-1892]
Movie / TV / Radio
Heroes & Actors
Old Time Radio Catalog [est. 1999] sells hundreds of episodes
of Western-themed radio programs on CDs, including
"The Cisco Kid" [1942-58],
"Death Valley Days" [1930-51], "Gunsmoke" [1952-61], "Have Gun Will Travel" [1958-60],
"Tom Mix" [1941-50], "Roy Rogers" [1944-55], "Red Ryder" [1942-51],
"Sky King" [1946-54], "Tales of The Texas Rangers" [1950-52], and
"Wild Bill Hickok" [1951-56]
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singing cowboy Gene Autry [1907-98] 
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posters
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
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Johnny Mack Brown [1904-74]
browse Johnny Mack Brown on DVD posters IMDb listing
Wikipedia
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cowboy star Hoot Gibson [1892-1962] Page
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silent movie cowboy star
William S. Hart [1864-1946] Page
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Tim Holt [1918-73]
browse Tim Holt on DVD IMDb listing
Wikipedia
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'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore's
The Lone Ranger Page
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silent movie cowboy star
Tom Mix [1880-1940] Page
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singing cowboy Roy Rogers [1911-98]
browse Roy Rogers on DVD books browse music posters
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
official website
'Happy Trails' theme song {55 sec.} by Roy & chorus
"Roy Rogers" radio program [1944-55] 22 episodes on CD
Dale Evans [1912-2001]
browse Dale Evans on DVD IMDb listing
Wikipedia
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silent movie cowboy star
Fred Thomson [1890-1928] Page
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silent movie cowboy star
Tom Tyler [1903-54]
browse Tom Tyler on DVD IMDb listing
Wikipedia
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![won Best Actor Oscar as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit" [1969]](images/oscar_sm.gif) | John Wayne [1907-79] Page
listed as Amazon bestselling action star in 2008 |
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Cowboy Stars & Actors Page
at the Western Film Festival
Classic Western TV Shows
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"Bonanza" tv series [1959-73]
browse 'Bonanza' on DVD
browse 'Bonanza' on VHS
series theme song {53 sec.}
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'Death Valley Days'
Death Valley Days official website
20-Mule Team Museum [est. 1978] in Boron, CA
"Death Valley Days" radio program [1930-51] 4 episodes on CD
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"Have Gun Will Travel" tv series
browse 'Have Gun Will Travel' on DVD
series theme song {47 sec.}
Richard Boone [1917-81]: browse DVDs IMDb listing Wikipedia
"Have Gun Will Travel" radio program [1958-60] 106 episodes on CD
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"The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp" TV series [1955-61]
series credits at IMDb
Hugh O'Brian: browse DVDs IMDb listing Wikipedia
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"Maverick" tv series
browse 'Maverick' on DVD
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"Rawhide" tv series
browse 'Rawhide' on DVD series theme song {48 sec.}
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"The Rifleman" tv series [168 episodes; 1958-63]
Produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television; starring Chuck Connors & Johnny Crawford
browse 'Rifleman' on DVD
series credits at IMDb
series theme song {18 sec.}
Wikipedia
MD's "Rifleman's Rifle" fansite
"The Rifleman" info at TV.com
MS's 'North Fork' fansite
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"Wagon Train" tv series: series theme song {46 sec.}
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"Wanted: Dead or Alive" tv series
browse 'Wanted: Dead or Alive' on DVD
Steve McQueen [1930-1980]: IMDb listing Wikipedia
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Western TV series on DVD at Amazon
Western TV series on VHS at Amazon
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"1950s TV's Greatest Westerns" [2002] DVD [7/2002] 3 disks for $24.99 |
Western Movies
Oscar-Winning Western Movies Page
Western Movie Film Festival Pages
Western Movie Collections
The Modern Cowboy
Directors
Links
Cowboy Stars & Actors
Lesser-Known Western Movies
Favorite Western Movies
Zane Grey's Silent Movies | Sound Movies
 | "Burying The Past: Legacy of The Mountain Meadows Massacre" [2004] Produced, written & directed by Brian F. Patrick video/DVD not yet available; full credits from IMDb official movie website |
Native Americans Pages
First Nations website index
Red Nation Society social networking site [est. 2009]
'Readers of the Purple Sage' Bookstore's
Native Americans Pages {split 4/2010} 
culture
tribes & nations, A to Z
links
historical Native Americans
modern Native Americans
books - non-fiction
books - fiction
Cowboy Culture Pages
Western Art ★
Organizations ★
Western Music
Cowboy Culture & Poetry ★
Magazines
Dude & Guest Ranches ★
Horses
TC's 'Code of the West' online text
'Eyewitness To The Old West' site
Larry Frederick's 'Wild, Wild West'
cowboy artist & author
Frederic Remington [1861-1909] Page
Cowboy Gear Page
Books & links about cowboy apparel, weapons, brands and other artifacts
click here
Links & Businesses
Corriganville Movie Ranch
Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio
Joe Konnyu's Cowboy Pal Website
Chuck's Old Corral
Cowboy Heritage Website
Ghost Towns of U.S. & Canada
Ghost Town Gallery
N Bar Ranch / Outlaw Land & Cattle Co., SW New Mexico
Cyber Soup's "The Wild West"
Stan Paregien's 'Cowboy Directory' website
historian Sue Schrems's Western Americana blog
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Books on The West
Edward Abbey [1927-89] Page
Max Brand [1892-1944] Pages
Loren D. Estleman Pages: Westerns
mysteries
Max Evans Page
Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages
Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] Page
Louis L'Amour [1908-88] Page
Michael McGarrity Page
Larry McMurtry Page
Southwest USA & Native American Mysteries
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Native Americans
non-fiction books
fiction books
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"Harvey Caplin's Real Cowboys & The Old West" [2010] by Abbie Caplin Schiffer Publng hardcover [7/2010] for $30.39out of print/used |
 | "Frontier Stories, A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book" [2010] Compiled & edited by Ann Lacy & Anne Valley-Fox Sunstone Press 9x6 pb [2/2010] for $22.00 |
 | "Old West Trivia Book (New and Completely Revised)" [orig 1992, rev 2009] by Don Bullis Rio Grande Books 9x6 pb [4/2009] for $14.00 Gem Guides Book Co. 9x6 pb [12/92] for $10.95 |
 | "Outlaws & Desperados: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book" [2008] Compiled & edited by Ann Lacy & Anne Valley-Fox Sunstone Press 9x6 pb [2/2008] for $26.56 |
 | "Buckskin Bessie: Her Lost Letters" [2006] by Monica James 'Buckskin Bessie' Herberg rode for 15 years for the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show, and was also the lover of the show's owner, Joe Miller. This book is the result of the discovery of 48 handwritten letters from Bessie to her sister, and two albums of photographs (75 pictures) at a garage sale, and subsequent research by the author. Buckskin Press 9x6 pb [3/2006] for $14.95 Buckskin Press of Glendale, Arizona |
 | "Devoto's West: History, Conservation & The Public Good" [2005] by Bernard Devoto, edited by Edward K. Muller Swallow Press pb [4/2005] for $12.89 Swallow Press hardcover [4/2005] for $44.95 |
 | "Gunfight At Mussel Slough: Evolution of The Western Myth" [2004] Edited by Terry Beers "[This] book can be understood as nothing less than the re-invention and the re-imagining of the Western myth." — Los Angeles Times Book Review Heyday Books 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $19.95 |
 | "The Quotable Cowboy" [2002] Edited by Kathy Etling Lyons Press 6¾x5¾ pb [6/2005] for $9.95 Lyons Press 7¼x6 hardcover [10/2002] out of print/used |
 | "American Bison: A Natural History" [2002] by Dale F. Lott Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2002] for $20.97 |
 | "Dictionary of The American West" [2001] by Winfred Blevins Sasquatch Press 9x6 pb [8/2001] for $13.96 |
 | "Mythmakers of The West: Shaping America's Imagination" [2001] by John A. Murray Northland Publg 8¾x9¾ pb [6/2001] for $15.36 Northland Publg 9x10 hardcover [6/2001] for $28.00 |
 | "The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto" [2001] by Wallace Stegner Univ of NE Press 9x6 pb [3/2001] for $15.72 |
 | "Cowgirls: Women of The Wild West" [2000] by Elizabeth Clair Flood; photography by William Manns Zon Intl 11¾x9.4 hardcover [1/2000] for $45.00 |
 | "The Western: Parables of The Western Dream" [1999] by Jeffrey Wallmann, Foreword by Richard S. Wheeler The first comprehensive historical survey of the Western in all of its manifestations, from the earliest Indian captivity narratives and pioneer biographies to contemporary Western novels, short stories, films & television series. Texas Tech Univ Press hardcover [10/99] for $29.95 |
 | "The Complete Idiot's Guide To The Old West" [1999] by Mike Flanagan Alpha Books 9¼x7½ pb [7/99] out of print/used |
 | "The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch & The Creation of The American West" [1999] by Michael Wallis
St Martin hardcover [3/99] for $35.00 |
 | "The Oxford History of The American West" [1998] Edited by Milner, O'Connor & Sandweiss Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7½ pb [9/96] for $37.80 Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7½ hardcover [5/94] out of print/many used |
 | "The New Encyclopedia of The American West" [1998] Edited by Howard Roberts Lamar Yale Univ Press 11¼x9 hardcover [10/98] for $42.00 |
 | "The Cowboy Encyclopedia" [1994] by Richard W. Slatta W.W. Norton 10x7 pb [7/96] out of print/used ABC-CLIO hardcover [6/94] out of print/used |
 | "The Cowboy: Representations of Labor In An American Work Culture" [1995] by Blake Allmendinger Lightning Source 9½x6.3 hardcover [4/95] for $45.00 |
 | "West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns" [1993] by Jane Tompkins Oxford Univ Press 8.6x5.4 pb [4/93] for $20.25 Oxford Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/99] out of print/used |
 | "Cowboy Riding Country" [1982] by John L. Sinclair [1902-1993], illustrated by Edmond Delavy Memories of working on the range near Roswell, New Mexico and of cowboy life in Lincoln County up thru World War II. Univ NM Press harcover [1982] out of print/used |
 | "Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters" [1979] by Bill O'Neal Univ of OK Press 9¼x6 pb [3/91] for $14.27 Univ of OK Press hardcover [6/79] out of stock/used |
 | "Recollections of A Western Ranchman: New Mexico, 1883-1899" [1928] by Captain William French "Let me recommend [this] as the best Western book I have read ... It is written in first hand, with humor and insight." – Eugene Manlove Rhodes [1869-1934] High Lonesome Books 8½x5½ pb [12/97] for $12.95 |
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