Review of The BPI Companion to the Western

Authors

Richard W. Ethulain, University of New Mexico

Date of this Version

1991

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 11:3 (Summer 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Of the numerous volumes claiming to be guides to the cinematic Western, this book is by far the best. For once a jacket blurb is exactly correct when it reads: "Unsurpassed in scope and scholarship, [this volume] sets a new standard for reference books about the [Western]."