The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
John Sayles Interview I first watched Lone Star soon after it came out in 1996. This atmospheric film, centred on a small-town grappling with its past, is both a whodunnit and a social commentary. The town in question was in Texas and where three communities, White...
The Springfield Witch-Hunt Like most books, The Ruin of All Witches took years to research and write, but all along I’d thought of it as a real-life fairy tale. At the time I began working on it, I was reading Philip Pullman’s masterly retelling of Grimms’ tales to my...
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Long before John Wayne brought the world that walk; long before Clint Eastward flicked his poncho as the Man With No Name, long before the old West was immortalised on the big screen, it had already been framed in the minds of generations of men and women – in a...
Life Among the Apaches, by John C. Cremony. A classic in American West literature describing one man's experiences with American Indians.
Six Months in the Gold Mines, by E Gould Buffum. From a journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California.
John Clinton, known to family and friends as ‘Jack’ couldn’t escape the land war. While he managed to avoid the worst of the Irish Land War of 1879-82 by emigrating with most of his siblings to the USA from rural County Meath, he fell victim to an equally vicious...
Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story told by his Scout by John McCorkle and O S Barton
The Vigilantes of Montana: Violence and Justice on the Frontier by Thomas J. Dimsdale
