THE WESTERN WORDSLINGER

My usual reply when someone asks me to name my favorite Western novel is generally, "Anything by Louis L'Amour." I realize t...

The Infant Carrier:  A Collection of Short Stories Prequels to the Ray Corngrower Saga The first book of the Ray Corngrower Saga h...

What do you consider among the best gunfights in a Western movie? There are a ton of great movies to choose from and selecting just ten of ...

Narrowing down this list to just ten was extremely hard to do. A list of top ten one-liners could be made exclusively from a single movie ...

The 1872 Colt Open Top bears the distinction of being the first revolver designed by Colt to fire metallic cartridges and was the precursor...

Every few years or so, rumors start up again about the supposed "death" of the Western.  It seems to go on a cycle and if the ru...

Colt SAA cal .45 Factory Engraved  shipped 1893 Image from Wikimedia Commons Although there was a plethora of gun types used during...