F rom True Grit to No Country for Old Men, novel adaptations have given the Western some of its greatest films, exploring the ...

Great Westerns are famous for iconic lawmen, and some movies showcase this far better than others and remain iconic.

A powerhouse for decades, like the superhero genre of today, lost its cultural stature as audiences were saturated with product, took a detour with revisionist auteur filmmakers then broke out again ...

I belong to the last generation of Americans that grew up with Western heroes. Yet by the 1970s, all that had slipped away. After the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, it was hard to admire ...

Frontier women were strong, courageous, resilient and resourceful. They had to be. On their way to their new lives, they had learned some hard lessons, lessons that would serve them well in the harsh ...

So, a guy walks into a bar –and in this case, stumbles upon not just any bar—an historic western saloon on the old frontier with original artifacts displayed throughout. The Palace Restaurant and ...

Frontier Days was held in July 1925 at Frontier Park (now Hawkeye Downs) in Cedar Rapids. (Ralph R. Doubleday via The History Center) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

The frontier isn’t kind to wagons in the movies, but in the new Western Frontier Crucible (2025), it’s downright vicious. The upcoming Western thriller, from the producer of Bone Tomahawk, hits ...

CHEYENNE – Attendees can look in nearly every direction in Frontier Park and find an ode to Western heritage. From the traditional teepees on display in the Indian Village to the sprawl of chuckwagons ...

This is the first installment in APP's Whatever Happened To...series, our look at the beloved -- and sometimes not-so-beloved -- people, places and things that are no more at the Jersey Shore. In the ...