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An Interview with Dr. Christopher Conway About His Book “Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican, Film, Comics, and Music” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – FRONTERAS
An Interview with Dr. Christopher Conway About His Book “Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican, Film, Comics, and Music” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – FRONTERAS
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Authors/creators
- Zane Grey
- Max Brand
- Louis L’Amour
- Jack Schaefer
- Gun Halliday
- Marshall Grover
- Ben Taggart
- Cormac McCarthy
- Walt Whitman
- Oprah
- K.C. Mills
- T’Lyn
- Natisha Raynor
- Charity Shane
- Chanelle Perkins
- Beverley Jenkins
- Rebekah Witherspoon
Books/written works
- The Virginian by Owen Whister
- The Benedict and Brazos series by Paul Wheelahan writing as E. Jefferson Clay
- Mills & Boon series
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- My Antonia by Willa Caffa
- Walk me to the Distance by Percival Everett
- The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
- Untamed Heart by Gemma Morr
- The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
- The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt
- Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
- Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
- The Lost Pardner by Badger Clark
- The Six Gun Mystique Sequel by John Cawelti
- Cattle Kate by Jana Bommersbach
- Cogewea: the Half-blood by Mourning Dove
- Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
- Sawbones by Melissa Lenhardt
- Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
- Wynema: Child of the Forest by S. Alice Callahan
- Calamity Jane by Christian Perrissin
- Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
- Outlawed by Anna North
- The Epitaph by Maria Doria Russel
- Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
- Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister
- Cowboy Carter by Beyonce
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
- North Dakota Quartet by Louise Erdrich
- The Fast and the Dead by Stephen Graham Jones
- Bearheart by Gerald Vizenor
- So Far from Good by Ana Castillo
- Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
- The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu
- Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- The Black Cowboys of the Old West by Bruce A. Glasrud
- The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States by William Katz
- Yellow Back Down Radio Broke Down by Ishmail Reed
- Wounded by Percival Everett
- How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
- The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
- Cowboys and East Indians by Nina Mconigley about the Indian Immigrants in the Rural West
- Inland by Tea Obrecht
- Girls Burn Brighter by Shoba Rao
- The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Film/TV:
- The Proposition
- The Nightingale
- The Tracker
- Sweet Water
- Brokeback Mountain
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Under the Tuscan Sun
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back
- Dances with Wolves
- The Last Samurai
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Glory
- Dangerous Minds
- Amistad
- Gran Torino
- The Blind Side
- Half Nelson
- Avatar
- The Help
- Fallout
- 1883
- Django Unchained
- The Harder they Fall