The Black Jack Ketchum graphic novel is a dreamlike version of the Old West, in which Tom Ketchum struggles to clear his name-and stay alive-when he’s mistaken for wanton outlaw “Black [ … ]
Category: Literature
Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West
Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West is an anthology of Old West fiction from Titan Press. From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in [ … ]
The Bender Tragedy: Family of Serial Killers
The Bender Tragedy, Mary E. York, Geo. W. Neff Books & Job Printer, 1875. Nonfiction, $12.99, Paperback. Photos. “Dedicated to the Memory of My Husband: Dr. William York, Murdered in [ … ]
The Goodbye Family – Weird Western Comic
The Goodbye Family are a fictional family of undertakers in a Weird Western comic that is the creation of author and illustrator Lorin Morgan-Richards. The Goodbye Family comprises Pyridine Goodbye, [ … ]
Deadwood Book By David Milch
There is nothing on television like the award-winning HBO series Deadwood. Beautiful, profane, complex, and sublime, the show is drama at its very best. Then came a Deadwood book by David [ … ]
Man-Hunters of the Old West, Vol. 2: Old West Bounty Hunters
Man-Hunters of the Old West, Volume 2, Robert K. DeArment, University of Oklahoma Press, Cloth, $29.95, Non-fiction. Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Eight men are featured here, most we’ve never heard of, [ … ]
Faces Like Devils: Old West Vigilantes
In the nineteenth century, vigilantes roamed the country, dispensing their own justice, flaunting societies laws and morals. In Faces Like Devils, Matthew J. Hernando closely examines one of the most famous [ … ]
Last of the Old-Time Outlaws – The George Musgrave Story
“He had a reputation as a cardsharp, cattle rustler, bandit, and killer,” and if George Musgrave had had a more romantic-sounding name, Hollywood might have cashed in on this amazing [ … ]
Lottie Deno: Gambling Queen of Hearts
Lottie Deno: Gambling Queen of Hearts by Cynthia Rose – Clear Light Publishing. Carlotta J. Thompkins, also known as Lottie Deno was a famous gambling queen known for her poker [ … ]
Nine Years a Captive (1927) – Captured By Indians
Herman Lehmann (June 5, 1859 – February 2, 1932) was captured by Indians as a child. He lived first among the Apache and then the Comanche but eventually returned to [ … ]