The story of the western is told in The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema
through a chronology, a bibliography, and an introductory essay.
However, it is the hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on
cinematographers; composers; producers; films like Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid, Dances With Wolves, The Good, The Bad, and the
Ugly, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, The Searchers,
Tombstone, and Unforgiven; such actors as Gene Autry, Kirk Douglas,
Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and John Wayne; and
directors like John Ford and Sergio Leone that will have you reaching
for this book again and again.