By the 1950s, the Western had outgrown its myths. The black-and-white morality of the frontier gave way to dustier truths — ...

If you want to pick the overall best decade for the Western genre, chances are you're going to settle on one that occurred ...

Our picture of a typical boy in 1950s America is of a towheaded tyke wearing a cowboy hat, sheriff's star and toy gunbelt, and there's a reason for that. Westerns flooded the small screen — it really ...

It was 50 years ago this month that NBC opened the Ponderosa for business. After a slow start, the Cartwrights' sprawling ranch became a ratings gold mine, and it was ... well, it was nothing less ...

Omar Azimi is a writer from the Washington D.C. metro area, who has experience in journalistic writing. Mr. Azimi graduated from Old Dominion University with a bachelors degree in Political Science.

Budd Boetticher, a maverick Hollywood director whose Westerns starring Randolph Scott in the 1950s are considered classics of the genre, has died. He was 85. The Chicago-born Boetticher, a onetime ...