Western Fictioneers

We all have our favorite western authors. Those that have taken us on journeys across rugged mountain ranges, endless prairies and scorching...

Post (C) Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Photo (C) Doris McCraw Relevant? It depends. I've been thinking about relevance lately. With Mar...

  Again I’ve been lucky in my career.  I began writing in the middle of the 1970's fantasy boom.  I caught the tail end of the men’s act...

  For today, let’s be a little hedonistic. On March 14, 1896, the Sutro Baths opened outside of Cliff House in San Francisco. The baths, the...

At three years old I was introduced to the Western through watching John Wayne in Randy Rides Alone and then right after Angel and the Badma...

Post (C) Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Image (C) Doris McCraw As I ponder what I am going to write in this monthly post, my mind runs throu...

Happy Valentine’s Day! Today, let’s talk Old West technology. In 1837, Samuel Morse filed for a US patent for his electrical telegraph line ...

Post (C) Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Photo (C) Doris McCraw As January comes to a close, I've been thinking a great deal about the pa...

  On This Day in the Old West January 10 On January 10, 1878, Joint Resolution, S.J. Res. 12, proposed an amendment to the US Constitution p...

My 2024 blogging series, Western Movie Taglines, began in January when I explained what a tagline is and gave examples of good non-western m...

Post (C) Doris McCraw aka Angela Raines Photo (C) Doris McCraw This post will go live on December 24, 2024. It is also the final post for me...