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 ...

Earlier this week, I published a story about Kevin Barry, the Booker Award-nominated Irish author whose terrific new book, “The Heart in Winter,” is a Western set in Montana circa 1891. But while ...

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 ...

William Boyd played the iconic Western hero Hopalong Cassidy in 66 films, becoming a popular counter-cultural cowboy who wore black and maintained a moral demeanor. Boyd bought the rights to Hopalong ...

Among the most iconic genres to ever grace the small screen, Western shows have always been a vital form of entertainment on television and have created some of the most legendary figures for fans.