The 1940s saw the rise of the Western genre with John Wayne and John Ford at the forefront, and here are the best genre ...

These classic novels feel more textured, more nuanced, more lived-in than the famous films made from them.

Marie Harmon, a leading lady of such 1940s Western movies at Nighttime in Nevada with Roy Rogers, The El Paso Kid with Sunset Carson and the 1947 film Gunsmoke, died Monday of natural causes in ...

Western Union is another epic of the early American frontier. This time the stringing of telephone lines in the 1860s, between Omaha and Salt Lake City, provides the background for adventures and ...

There are still remnants of the Old West in the late 1940s when archaeology student Catherine Lemay goes to Montana to find whether there are cultural remains at the site of a dam.