There was a time when you couldn’t flip on the TV or buy a movie ticket without running into a cowboy. Westerns were everywhere, filling Saturday matinees at the local movie theater, dominating ...

Westerns have a range of characters, including antiheroes, outlaws, and rustlers, but the best Western movie heroes are better than them all.

For decades, the Western was the beating heart of Hollywood mythmaking, an arena where heroism rode tall in the saddle and the frontier seemed endless. But like the real West, the genre had its ...