Western Movies

While Diane Lane was not new to Westerns when she was cast as Lorena Wood in 1989’s groundbreaking television mini-series Lonesome Dove, her role permanently defined her as one of the greatest and most beloved heroines of Western film and television.– Courtesy Witliff Collections/Motown and CBS –

Neal McDonough starred as former Union soldier and lawman John Breaker in the INSP channel’s post-Civil War Western, The Warrant. McDonough, no stranger to Westerns and action series, most recently had a recurring role in Yellowstone’s 2019 season.– Courtesy INSP TV –

Producer Bobby Roberts’ Western ensemble Monte Walsh remains a classic 50 years later.

The family classic Old Yeller is poignantly and lovingly recalled by its youngest cast members.

In movies the stage tries always to outrun the bad guys or Indians. Did that ever work?

The 1993 production of Tombstone sparked new interest in historically accurate Western clothing, hats, firearms and accessories.

Jeremiah Johnson

CBS’s 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove, starring (l.-r.) Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as Larry McMurtry’s characters Gus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, inspired a revival of Old West wear for fans and re-enactors looking for traditional mid- to late-19th century men’s and women’s frontier clothing.

The Shiloh Sharps Company (ShilohSharps.com) of Big Timber, Montana, made the “Quigley” 1874 Shiloh Sharps for Tom Selleck’s role as Matthew Quigley in the 1990 film Quigley Down Under.

Jason Priestley, who wears corrective glasses in real life, had his character, Billy Breckinridge in Tombstone, wear the period-correct K-Bridge oval spectacle frames with spring-steel curl temples.

The Man with No Name poncho can also be ordered from Cimarron.

In 1971, Robert Redford and Della Bolton as Swan starred in Jeremiah Johnson. Filmed entirely on location in Utah and Arizona, the biopic of the mountain man was adapted from Vardis Fisher’s novel Mountain Man and Raymond W. Thorp and Raymond Bunker’s biography Crow Killer.

You can hang ’em high or paint the town red with this 1851 Navy cartridge conversion revolver. Either way, this spitting image replica of the 1851 Navy model used by the lead actor in the spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s will surely set you apart from other six-gunners.

Selleck, who costarred with the late Alan Rickman, used with great accuracy the powerful .45-70 caliber rifle with Semi Buckhorn rear sight.

Hondo from KnudsenHats.com.

Gus McCrae-style cowboy hat.