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Westerns and Western Subgenres in Film, Literature, and TV

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Western Films

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"The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind."

-Darryl Ponicsan

(ca. Tom Mix Died for Your Sins: A Novel Based on His Life (New York: Delacorte Press, 1975), p. 135)

Native American Heritage Month

Empire of the Summer Moon

Call Number: 978.00497 PARKER BIOGRAPHY

The Three-Cornered War

Call Number: 978.02 NELSON 2020

Surviving Genocide

Call Number: 973.0497 OSTLER 2019

The Earth Is All That Lasts

Call Number: 978.00497 GARDNER 2022

The Earth is Weeping

Call Number: 978.02 COZZENS 2016

Born of Lakes and Plains

Call Number: 978.02 HYDE 2022

Reel Injun

Call Number: DVD 791.43635 REEL

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Call Number: 978.00497 BROWN

The American Buffalo

Call Number: DVD 599.643 AMERICAN

The Indian Wars of the West

Call Number: 973 WELLMAN

Westerns of the Week

The Dark Wind

Call Number: FICTION HILLERMAN

After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?

Mystery Road

Call Number: DVD MOVIE MYSTERY

Detective Joe Swan returns to his small home town to investigate the murder of a teenaged Aboriginal girl. He finds himself alone and in growing danger as the towns secrets unravel.

Western Education, Preservation, Publications, etc.