Observations from the Slash Y

" The West for me is a haunted place. There are these mythic ghosts everywhere you go. I don’t know of a region that buys its own bull...

Here's a death of the western theory I haven't heard before: "The excesses and financial disaster of 1980’s Heaven’s Gate had...

The reasons why the western was popular (and is enduring) is many fold (birth of the American Myth for example) and the reasons why the gen...

Damn near every time a new, good looking western comes out someone writes a piece about whether the western is making a comeback.  It's...

"Have you ever thought about writing a Western novel, with no horror or science fiction elements? I’ve considered writing in many gen...

"When I run up against that 'How can you, a mere woman, write Westerns?' attitude, I mention that in my youth I owned a number...

"Long before Louis L'Amour, Max Brand, or Zane Grey thought about swinging up into a saddle, women were blazing a trail for the Wes...