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 ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Charles Bronson in Once Upon a Time in the West, John Wayne in The Searchers ...

The Western genre had taken Hollywood by storm in the '50s and '60s, with the likes of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood gracing the silver screen with their tall, imposing figures and no-nonsense ...

Of the many genres in cinema, none is as distinctively American as the Western. Typically set in the American frontier during the mid to late 1800s, the Western is crucial to the very fabric of ...

Is the Western the most American of movie genres? You can make an argument for the Western film’s internationality on the names of the directors who have contributed to its iconography: You have your ...

This article was originally published September 4, 2019 and has been updated to include additional movies. America can only claim a few art forms as its own. Jazz, for sure. Comic books, certainly. It ...