Upcoming movie and TV westerns

Some upcoming westerns that are worth keeping tabs on. I'll post more when I know more.  

Godless from Steven Soderberg is coming to Netflix in November 2017.

“Godless,” a new seven-part original limited series from creator Steven Soderbergh, will premiere on Netflix Nov. 22.

The western stars Jeff Daniels as notorious criminal Frank Griffin, who, along with his band of outlaws, is on a mission of revenge against Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell), who betrayed Griffin and his men. While on the run, Roy seeks refuge with hardened widower Alice Fletcher (Michelle Dockery), an outcast herself, in the worn-down, isolated mining town of La Belle, N.M., which is governed mainly by women. When word reaches La Belle that Griffin is headed their way, the town bands together to defend itself against the murderous gang in a lawless western frontier.

Hostiles starring Christian Bale is an

"...Army captain who agrees to help bring a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their tribal lands in the year 1892. The two men are joined by a suicidal widow, played by Rosamund Pike, who is still grieving over the murder of her family by Comanche Indians.

Bale 'stache

Here's the trailer:

Hyde Park is an upcoming western flick. Here's what we know:

Based on one of the most intense gunfights in the history of the Wild West, Hyde Park tells the story of the rival Sheriffs Mike McCluskie and Billy Bailey and the war waged in South Central Kansas during a 24-month stretch in the early 1870s.

With an almost overnight explosion, Newton found itself in the cross hairs of two rival communities, the Ohio rail road workers and the Texas Cattle Ranchers who sought to take over the land between their ranches and the tracks. Former Train Policeman and roughman Mike McCluskie is hired by the Santa Fe Train Depot to try to keep the peace. During the election season of 1871, tensions mounted and the patrons from both sides began taking out their frustrations at the town’s brothels and saloons.

The Texas Cattle Ranchers, determined to stake a claim in the city, inserted their own political force, equipped with their own sheriff, the dangerous and violent Billy Bailey.

A cast of Western characters began taking hard line positions. Anchored only with the support of James Riley, a vagrant 19-year old boy dying of tuberculosis, McCluskie took it upon himself to rid the town of the Texas Cattle Ranchers once and for all.
And, the rest, as they say… is history.

And here's the trailer



The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 6 part anthology series coming to Netflix from The Coen Brothers. No images yet but here's what we know about the six parts.

The first of the six is about a singing cowboy and is the title story.
The second, “Near Algodones,” is about a high-plains drifter whose own fecklessness dogs his attempts at bank robbery and cattle driving.
The third, “Meal Ticket,” follows an actor and impresario of a traveling show.
The fourth, “All Gold Canyon,” is about a prospector who happily finds a gold seam but then unhappily finds an evil encroacher.
The fifth, “The Gal Who Got Rattled,” follows two trail bosses on the Oregon Trail and a woman on the wagon train who needs the help of one of them and who might be a marriage prospect for the other.
Lastly, “The Mortal Remains,” about the five very different passengers on a stagecoach of mysterious destination.

August 2017 new release westerns

Cleveland Westerns August releases

I did this for myself and thought it would be worth sharing. I wanted to kind of take the temperature of the genre, I was curious to see just how many new westerns were being published.

I'm not sure if this will be a regular monthly feature or not, but if there is enough interest in this type of post, maybe.

A couple of notes. I did not include any William Johnstone titles. I didn't include most of the reissues I came across. The publishers that have a regular monthly slate of westerns are listed first. I didn't really look at the University presses. I did not include non-fiction titles.

This is substantial but incomplete

If you found this helpful, let me know. 

Black Horse Westerns

The Long Trail by John Armstrong

At seventeen, Dot Pickett is young to be taking on the role of trail boss on a cattle drive. But Dot’s life has been hard, and he has learnt to be brave, resourceful – and occasionally ruthless. Now he has successfully led a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas and is setting off for home with the bag of gold owed to the Texan ranchers. But Dot has fallen foul of a notorious outlaw family and he knows that they will try to ambush him. Then when Dot goes to the aid of a young woman, the gold disappears and he embarks upon a quest to retrieve it. Dot’s search takes him on a long trail of danger, deception and intrigue, leading him from Abilene deep into the bayous of Louisiana, where his courage and determination are pushed to the extreme in order to survive and reclaim the cattlemen’s gold.

Spanish Gold Fever by Bill Sheehy

Gold discovered out in California excites young Dan Bartlett, but life as a ’49er isn’t what he expected. Penniless, hungry and still innocent of life, he takes work holding a few horses, and when his new partner Tom Hodges yells at him to get in the saddle and ride, he naturally does as he’s told. Then Dan realizes that they are riding stolen stock and, believing the law is behind them, they head into Nevada Territory, where Hodges remembers having seen a little valley, a place where they can start a ranch. But en route for the valley, they come across an abandoned gold mine. It doesn’t matter it isn’t California gold; any gold draws interest – and when Dan finds himself looking into the barrel of a Colt .45 is when he really begins to grow up.

Long Rider by Colin Bainbridge

Wes Stretton has ridden a long way to gain vengeance on Yoakum, who he holds responsible for killing his friend. The trail takes him to the town of Buckstrap where he meets the enigmatic Lana Flushing and walks straight into a range war between rival ranches: the Bar Seven and the Sawtooth. But someone knows of his arrival and is out to bushwhack him. Then the foreman of the Sawtooth is shot. But was Stretton the intended target? And was Yoakum responsible?

Lightning Strike! by Brent Towns

His name was Billy Swift and he wore a brace of .45s, grips inlaid with silver lightning bolts. They said he was dead, but now he’s back … For five years it was thought that the gunfighter known as ‘Lightning Swift’ was dead. He’d just crawled off into the desert to die after being wounded in a gun battle with Harley Mossop and his gang. How wrong everyone was. Someone shot the man who saved his life, so the Lightning Colts have been strapped back on. Soon the air is filled with the smell of burnt powder as the gunfighter with the lightning-fast hands returns from the grave. He’s mad and is not going to stop until the person responsible is planted in the ground. Then from the past looms a killer. The famous Lightning Swift may not be able to outdraw this one. His name … Laredo Mossop, king of the fast-guns!

Hunting Harker by Greg Mitchell

When Ollie Harker’s wagon fails to arrive at Logjam Creek, his employer, JD Cookson, hires Tom Parry and Durango Finch to find it. It appears that Harker has been killed by hostile Indians, but when a murder in the town is linked to him, Harker’s mission is revealed to be something more than a routine freighting operation. The trail leads Parry and Finch to an illegal whiskey-running operation in which Monson, Logjam Creek’s saloon owner, is implicated. But getting proof of this is both difficult and dangerous, and the two hunters find themselves in deep peril when they come up against a ruthless gang of moonshiners.

Death on the Bozeman by Paul Bedford

One year after the end of the Civil War, three southerners are heading northwest on the Bozeman Trail to the gold mining camp at Virginia City. When they find the army has closed the trail because the Sioux are on the warpath, the three friends accept work at Fort Phil Kearny. After an Indian ambush, the men flee the fort, together with a man called Slade. But there is more to Slade than meets the eye, and when he is revealed as a hired gun and murderer the southerners are drawn into the hunt to apprehend him to clear their names.

Piccadilly Publishing
(publishing schedule copied directly from their site)

Floating Outfit 14: Rangeland Hercules (J.T. Edson)

Wilderness Double 9:Trapper's Moon & Mountain Cat (David Robbins)

Renegade 26: Blood on the Border (Lou Cameron)

Larry and Stretch 9: Close in for a Showdown (Marshall Grover)

The Dragoons 4: Whiskey River: (P.E. Andrews)

Clay Nash 5: Last Stage to Shiloh (Brett Waring)

Bannerman 9: Mad Dog Hallam (Marshall Grover)

Released 15th

The Long Knives 5: Blood on Apache Mesa (P.E. Andrews)

Waco 5: The Drifter (J.T. Edson)

Sundance 18: The Nightriders (Peter McCurtin)

Released 27th

Gunsmith 428: A Place Called Exile (J.R. Roberts)

Five Star Westerns

Pinkerton's Gold by Thom Nicholson

SHOOT-OUT IN HELL: A Western Duo: Featuring Lou Prophet, Bounty Hunter by Peter Brandvold

Buzzard Bait: A Widowmaker Jones Western #2 by Brett Cogburn

Cleveland Westerns
(ETA: it was brought to my attention that Cleveland is all reprints now)

Cleveland Westerns: The Loner (Legends of the West Book 99) Kindle Edition by Scott McLure

Cleveland Westerns: Only A Stinkin’ Nester! (Legends of the West Book 100) Kindle Edition by Emerson Dodge

Cleveland Westerns: War Cloud’s Bride (Bison Book 1581) Kindle Edition by Sundown McCabe

Cleveland Westerns: The Will Of Judah Zane (Legends of the West Book 98) Kindle Edition by Brett McKinley
Cleveland Westerns: All’s Hell On Peach Street (Legends of the West Book 101) Kindle Edition by Brett McKinley

Cleveland Westerns: Cable’s War (Bison Book 1582) Kindle Edition y Brett Waring
Cleveland Westerns: The Fatal Star (Legends of the West Book 97) Kindle Edition by Emerson Dodge

Cleveland Westerns: Gun Swift (Legends of the West Book 102) Kindle Edition by Brad Cordell

Misc. Publishers/Titles

Sunset Showdown Kindle Edition by Onias Bondo (Author)

Blazing Uncanny Trails by Sam Knight (Author), Rhye Manhattan (Author)

Michelle Tanner - Going West: The Complete Saga (Michelle Tanner Going West) Kindle Edition by Ron Lewis (Author)

Three Times the Trouble Kindle Edition by Scott Coleman (Author)

Gunsmoke: The United States Bounty Hunter: A Western Adventure (The Clint Clay Western Collection Book 1) Kindle Edition by Clint Clay (Author), John D. Fie Jr. (Foreword)

On The Far Horizon: A Collection Kindle Edition by Clint Westgard (Author)

Night Wind: The Amado Lopez Saga Begins Kindle Edition by C.M. Curtis (Author)

Sunrise Over the Jumanes (Ten Men of Courage Book 3) Kindle Edition by Dave P. Fisher (Author)

Slade's Law (The Lawman Book 2) Kindle Edition by Lyle Brandt (Author), Michael Newton (Author)

Blood on the Wagon Wheel: The Struggles of a Young Pioneer by William C. Seigler (Author), J.C. Hulsey (Foreword)

James Tylor: The Bounty Hunter: A Western Adventure (The Sheriff Western Adventure Series Book 2) by Clint Clay (Author)

Boot Hill Valley: The Bottle or the Bullet Western Adventure: (Revenge of the Bullet Western Adventure Book 1) Kindle Edition by R.G. Yoho (Author), David Watts (Author), J.C. Hulsey (Preface)

U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson: Women in the West Did Survive by Paul L. Thompson (Author)

Silence of the Drums: A Western Adventure: From The Bestselling Author of Western Bestseller "The Hard Ride" (The Speeding Bullet Western Adventure Series Book 1) by J.S. Stroud (Author), J.C. Hulsey (Foreword)

River Whiskey by J. L. Guin (Author)

A Single Slug : And Other Western Tales Kindle Edition by Bruce Harris (Author)

Bounty Hunter Package: Bounty Hunter: (Bounty Hunter # 7) The Bounty Hunter: (Bounty Hunter # 8): A Western, The Hanging Bounty Kindle Edition by Jeff Breland (Author)

U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson: Please Don't Leave Me by Paul L. Thompson (Author)

Silence of the Drum by J.S. Stroud (Author), J.C. Hulsey (Foreword)

Stealin' From The Neighbors by Ed Ashurst (Author), Mike Capron (Illustrator)

A Place Called Exile (A Gunsmith Western Book 428) Kindle Edition by J. R. Roberts (Author)

Bought With A Gun Kindle Edition by Luke Short (Author)

First Campaign Kindle Edition by Luke Short (Author)

Barren Land Showdown Kindle Edition by Luke Short (Author)

The Outlaw Jenny Lee by Jess Bryan (Author)

The Last Notch (Black Gat Books) by Arnold Hano (Author), (Introduction by David Laurence Wilson) (Author)

Blackshot: Blood Money: A Hard Action Adult Western Kindle Edition by Kurt Barker

Warriors of the Plains Kindle Edition by Robert E. Vardeman