Voices of the West

Our guest for this edition of the show is Danny O'Haco. He's retired from rodeo and the movies, but has a ton of stories about both professions that he shares with us. Look for his books here at Amazon.com.

It's Free Range on this edition of the show. We cover a variety of topics including the Western component of the blockbuster movie "Barbie." Plus, a B to See movie review.

It's our end of the month show that we call Movie Saturday. For this edition, we talk about the quotes from western movies--quotes that made the movie.

Actor Bobby Carradine joins us for the hour to talk about his iconic acting family and the westerns in which he appeared. Great stories about being on-set of The Cowboys .

It's a continuation of last week's show--No Topic for Old Men. Bunker de France is not with us for this show as his horse took a tumble. He's (Bunker) okay. Todd Roberts and Harry Alexander talk about a bunch of different things all related to the Old West.

On this edition of the show, we talk about this, that and perhaps the other thing. We call it Open Range--a variety of topics about the Old West.

On this show, Western Writers of America authors Wild Bill Markley and Kid Kellen Cutsforth join us to talk more about their book, Standoff at High Noon: Another Battle of the Truth in the Mythic Wild West. The book is available at Amazon.com and all other places that feaature fine books.

It's our end-of-the month show we call Movie Saturday where we talk about a specific film and/or actor. This show is all about Ward Bond. He appeared in more than 200 films and starred in the television series Wagon Train .

In this episode of the show, we take on the job of casting director and offer up some ideas of casting different actors in western movie roles. One example we did was recasting Tombstone with B Movie actors.

On this edition of our program, we talk about a bunch of different things pertaining to the Old West. Kick back and enjoy!

Actor, stuntman, makeup artist, horse trainer and assistant director Rod Wolfe joins us from his Phoenix-area ranch by telephone. His last work was on a production filmed at Old Tucson called Last Dollar . He's appeared in bunches of movies and television shows.

It's our Movie Saturday program! Joining us for the hour is Peter Sherayko and Tucson Vern Walker. Peter and Vern have worked together on numerous films. Peter was in Tombstone (1993) while Vern worked on She was the Deputy's Wife (2021). Great stories from both of them!

Leroy Garcia, owner of the Blue Rain Gallery in New Mexico, is our guest. He talks about starting his art gallery and working with new artists. His website is Blue Rain Art Gallery .

For this program, we take a look at transportation on the Colorado River in the mid 1800s--how it flourished and its demise.

On this abbreviated edition of our program, we talk with Marty and Gene Freese. This father and son team know where those films were shot. It's a look at Arizona movie locations.

It's the end of the month and our Movie Saturday program. For this one, we talk about western movies involving mining.

Documentary filmmaker Trudi Angell joins us for the hour. She produced a film highlighing the history in Baja, Calfornia of the pack trains that were used to get goods from the coast to rancheros and stores. Her star was 70-year-old Darío Higuera Meza who also made the leatherwork used on the journey. View more information about her film here .

On today's program, we look at the latest issue of Western Clippings . It's a newspaper/newsletter published by Boyd Magers. It's all about the Old West movies and the stars.

It's our program about nothing. We call it "nuggets." It's about this, that, and, the other thing...

It's our Movie Saturday program and we're featuring chuckwagons in westerns. There are more westerns than you might think...

Jerry Martin, a great-grandson of Geronimo, joins us for the hour. He dispels some of the myths surrounding the Apache leader.

Barb Whiteis joins for the hour. She responded to our call for listeners to send us their favorite westerns and come on the show to talk about them. Barb also runs Caille Farm in Minnesota. She teaches all the basics of how to ride and care for a horse. Many of her students have gone on to win awards in competitive situations.

We traveled to Tombstone for their first annual Tombstone Book Festival. The event attracted numerous authors of the western genre. We talked with event organizer Doug Hocking, Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook of True West Magazine, musician Carol Markstram, and, authors Chris Enss, Bill Markley, Manuela Schneider, Jenna Bommersbach, Harvey Stanbrough, Chris Mullin, Faro Phil, Melody Groves and...

On this edition of Emil Franzi's Voices of the West we talk movies of the silent variety. It''s Movie Saturday and we're doing silent westerns.

Author Tom Zoellner joins us for the hour. His book, Rim to River , is a collection of essays he wrote while walking the length of Arizona--from the Utah border to the Mexican border.