We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When you think of Western TV series of the mid-20th century, what comes to mind? "Bonanza?" "Gunsmoke?" "Rawhide?" Maybe even "The Virginian," ...

Throughout Hollywood history, we've missed out on some collaborations that, had they come to pass, would have been nothing short of historic. Take John Wayne and Clint Eastwood's feud, for example, ...

After the death of John Wayne in the late '70s, the Western genre was never the same. Clint Eastwood was moving away from the horse opera himself, only making Pale Rider in the '80s, and with its ...

The Western is the most durable of Hollywood genres. It's died many deaths, but it's always been reborn in different styles and flavors: revisionist, Spaghetti, Zapata, acid, and more. And the ...

Westerns were out of fashion in the 1980s — as evidenced by "Heaven's Gate" flopping at the box office — but some filmmakers weren't ready to let the genre ride into the sunset. "Silverado," "The Long ...