Larry McMurtry, the famed Texas novelist, screenwriter and bookseller, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Lonesome Dove," at his bookstore, Booked Up No. 1. The Wild West provides the backdrop for ...

It’s no spoiler to reveal that Tom dies of cancer early in the story but returns as a ghost seen and heard only by Kalin. In ...

Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones' 4-part Western miniseries Lonesome Dove is the Western genre at its best, and you can ...

William Boyd played the iconic Western hero Hopalong Cassidy in 66 films, becoming a popular counter-cultural cowboy who wore black and maintained a moral demeanor. Boyd bought the rights to Hopalong ...

As a young man in the early 1960s, Peter Oresick stopped at his local library and borrowed a copy of “Request for Sherwood Anderson,” a story collection by fellow Ford City native Frank Brookhouser.

Among the most iconic genres to ever grace the small screen, Western shows have always been a vital form of entertainment on television and have created some of the most legendary figures for fans.

Throughout western Pennsylvania, novels, screenplays and short stories articulate a vision of the region. The documentation of these works is what writer and teacher Peter Oresick, and his son Jake, ...

Joshua Tree‘s strip of local businesses is only a few blocks. But it’s got a bookstore, one with the quirky sensibility that seems to come naturally to the desert. Its name: Space Cowboy. Its focus: ...

The newly released faith-based historical novel, Legacy of the Pearl, sheds light on America’s past struggles and relatable life-changing moments via a ...