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The Hollywood Posse: The Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History Diana Serra Cary 9780806128351
SciFier: $47.99After 1912, when the great cattle empires began to crumble, hundreds of seasoned cowboys found themselves jobless. A handful of discarded horsemen, however, stumbled upon an entirely new frontier -... -
Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream Ronald L. Davis 9780806133300
RRP: $35.82SciFier: $26.91At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offices. She appeared in dozens of films and won... -
Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980 Andrew Patrick Nelson 9780806148212
RRP: $35.82SciFier: $27.93By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne was passe - or so the story goes. Many film historians and critics have argued that movies portraying a... -
Narrating the Landscape: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century Matthew N. Johnston 9780806152233
RRP: $54.72SciFier: $45.44The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented... -
Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies by Arthur Frank Wertheim
RRP: $39.60SciFier: $33.68Will Rogers and Florenz Ziegfeld are two magic names in show business. Today Rogers is considered America's most beloved humorist, while Ziegfeld is recognized as the most flamboyant impresario in... -
Field of Honor: A Novel D. L. Birchfield 9780806163147
SciFier: $38.73In D. L. Birchfield's Field of Honor, a secret underground civilization of Choctaws, deep beneath the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, has evolved into a high-tech culture, supported by... -
The Mexican Flyboy by Alfredo Vea
RRP: $37.71SciFier: $26.91What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo Vea's daring new... -
Chancers by Gerald Vizenor
RRP: $22.59SciFier: $16.67Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe... -
Duke by Ronald L. Davis
RRP: $41.49SciFier: $29.28Almost two decades after his death, John Wayne is still America's favorite movie star. More than an actor, Wayne is a cultural icon whose stature seems to grow with the passage of time. In this... -
Dead Voices by Gerald Vizenor
RRP: $32.04SciFier: $25.00Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of... -
Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West John Wills 9780806191850
RRP: $47.16SciFier: $36.78While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning... -
Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West John Wills 9780806191928
RRP: $102.06SciFier: $81.70While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning... -
Shot in Oklahoma by John Wooley
RRP: $35.82SciFier: $20.30When inventor and movie studio pioneer Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew?To Oklahoma's 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola... -
What Is a Western? by Josh Garrett-Davis
RRP: $56.61SciFier: $42.64There's "western", and then there's "Western" - and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in What Is a Western? Region, Genre,... -
Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Michelle Delaney
RRP: $73.62SciFier: $60.27William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody, star of the American West, began his journey to fame at age twenty-three, when he met writer Ned Buntline. The pulp novels Buntline later penned were loosely based... -
The Bone Picker by Devon A. Mihesuah
RRP: $32.04SciFier: $22.85Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair...