In 1874, Jesse and Frank James were robbing banks and trains to the point that the railroads decided to hire the famous detective group the Pinkertons to hunt [ … ]
Month: January 2018
The Homesman (2014) – Madness on the Plains
In The Homesman, when three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the [ … ]
Phantom of the Black Hills – Relentless Hellbilly Music
When it comes to the music of South Dakota’s doom country and hellbilly punk desperadoes Phantom of the Black Hills, two worlds couldn’t collide more violently, with plenty [ … ]
Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
The amazing story of the wife of Wild Bill Hickok appears for the first time in this wonderfully written and carefully researched volume. Beginning with the early life of [ … ]
Liver Eating Johnson & Jeremiah Johnson
On January 21, 1900 Liver Eating Johnson, one of the Old West’s most intriguing and gruesome men, died in a veterans’ hospital in California. This was a strange ending for [ … ]
The Lynching of Cattle Kate
On July 20, 1889 Cattle Kate, the first woman in Wyoming, either legally or illegally, was hanged. I think you’ll find her story very interesting. Ella Watson has been described [ … ]
How It Feels To Be Scalped
How It Feels To Be Scalped: what follows is a December 20, 1883 article from the San Antonio Light newspaper. It’s the actual words of a soldier who had been [ … ]
Weird Western Tales – Graphic Novel Series
The closest (and longest lasting) genre that is comparable to Gothic Western is Weird Western, which combines elements of the Western with horror, occult, fantasy or science fiction. Weird [ … ]
And the Ass Saw the Angel – Nick Cave’s Cult Classic
And the Ass Saw the Angel , Nick Cave’s first novel, is an inventive tall tale featuring (and lampooning) religious fanaticism and bizarre dogma. Euchrid Eucrow, despised and [ … ]
Gothic Western Fashion – Part II
In our previous blog, we sought to introduce the concept of gothic western fashion (in particular, with regards to womenswear, to read click HERE). However, we could not consider [ … ]