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Westerns

Westerns and Western Subgenres in Film, Literature, and TV

Budd Boetticher

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? - Budd Boetticher

The Criterion Collection - Some Things a Man Can't Ride Around: Budd Boetticher's Ranown Westerns

John Ford

British Film Institute - Where to begin with John Ford?

U.S. Naval Institute - John Ford

Becoming John Ford (DVD)

Martin Scorsese on the films of John Ford published by American Masters PBS on September 7, 2022

Sergio Leone

Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone talk Westerns published by BBC Archive on July 29, 2023

Sam Peckinpah

Cowboys & Indians Magazine - The Western Life and Western Films of Sam Peckinpah

Taylor Sheridan

Cowboys & Indians Magazine - Taylor Sheridan

Taylor Sheridan, the cowboy behind "Yellowstone"  published by CBS Sunday Morning on June 12, 2022

Rudolph "Rudy" Wurlitzer

Gene Autry

Official Gene Autry Website

Autry Museum of the American West

Gary Cooper

Official Gary Cooper Website

Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame - Frank James "Gary" Cooper (1901-1961)

Kevin Costner

Clint Eastwood

National Museum of American History - Clint Eastwood and the American West

British Film Institute - Where to begin with Clint Eastwood

Walton Goggins

Vanity Fair - The Many Lives of Walton Goggins

Rolling Stone - Walton Goggins on 'Fallout,' 'Justified.' and Being Typecast as Hillbillies

William S. Hart

William S. Hart Museum

William S. Hart Museum | Look at This! published by KCAL News on January 30, 2024

Tom Mix

Tom Mix Museum

Oklahoma Historical Society - Mix, Thomas Edwin (1880-1940)

Roy Rogers

Official Roy Rogers Website

Randolph Scott

John Wayne

Official John Wayne Website

John Wayne Birthplace Museum

Peter Bogdanovich on John Wayne in "Red River" published by criterioncollection on July 9, 2014
 
On the Set of The Alamo from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.
A silent behind the scenes look at the filming John Wayne's The Alamo (1960)