Quentin Tarantino once said that The Wild Bunch was a perfect Western; however, he soon went back on the statement.

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 ...

You know Elmore Leonard for his screenplay-perfect crime novels, including Get Shorty, but when "Dutch" started writing, around 1950, what paid (2 cents a word) was Western fiction, and the dozens of ...

Born in Indiana in 1859, writer Andy Adams lived the cowboy life on the Texas plains. He later rendered those experiences in fiction to set Americans straight about life in the West. Adams arrived in ...

When you think of SYFY, it's likely that the very first show that comes to mind is Battlestar Galactica. Considering it's a hard science fiction drama that successfully breathed new life into a dead ...

Although Western novels started losing readers in the sixties, don’t blame the waning interest on Texas writers, who have since provided the flagging genre some of its best moments. Larry McMurtry’s ...

Those who enjoy the cult classic 'Acid Western' El Topo will find that film's spirit alive and well in this acclaimed (and ...

Western fiction is an American genre. Taking place on the American frontier, in the late 1800s to early 1900s, these stories feature cowboys, outlaws and settlers as main characters. Opinions differ ...

On Monday, Syfy launches its $100 million show Defiance, which is full of Wild West tropes, and this summer we’re getting the fantasy-oriented Lone Ranger. Lately, tons of people have tried to combine ...

As a young man in the early 1960s, Peter Oresick stopped at his local library and borrowed a copy of “Request for Sherwood Anderson,” a story collection by fellow Ford City native Frank Brookhouser.