Author: The Lone Writer

The Lone Writer is an American frontier and Old West journalist and historian. He loves to read, write and review all things western, whether historical or fiction.
Wild Montana Skies
Western Music

Western Song: Wild Montana Skies

Wild Montana Skies was the single from the 1983 album of John Denver called It’s About Time recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami. Denver dedicated the album with great love and respect to the memory of his father, Lt. Col. (Ret.) H.J. “Dutch” Deutschendorf.” Members of the Western Writers of America included Wild Montana […]

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Last Cowboy Song
Western Music

Western Song: Last Cowboy Song

The Last Cowboy Song is originally written and performed by the duet Ed Bruce and Ron Peterson. It also appeared on the first studio album released by country supergroup The Highwaymen, including Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson. Members of the Western Writers of America chose Last Cowboy Song in their list […]

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Rawhide
Western Music

Western Song: Rawhide

Rawhide is a western song used as the theme for the western television series, Rawhide, that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1966. Because the show has a Western theme, composer Dimitri Tiomkin and lyricist Ned Washington were asked to write the music, as they wrote songs for several famous Western films, including Wild Is […]

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Western Actors
Western Movies

Top Western Actors

As one of the oldest and principal defining genres in the American film industry, Westerns offer a nostalgic view to the late 19th century, during the days of the untamed American frontier in the Wild West. Western films often portray stories set in the wilderness, isolated forts or homesteads, family ranches, small frontier towns, including […]

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the spanish grant
Bonanza Western TV

The Spanish Grant Full Episode – Bonanza, Season #01, Episode #21

The classic television western series, Bonanza, portrays the daily lives and adventures of the Cartwright family, owners of the fictional Ponderosa ranch. David Dortort and Leonard Heideman wrote its twenty-first episode, The Spanish Grant, which appeared on-screen on February 6, 1960. In this episode, con artists Don Antonio Luga (Sebastian Cabot) and Sanchez (Paul Picerni) hire […]

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