Inspirationen til denne blog er baseret på mange kilder, der primært kan deles op i tre kategorier:
- Filmene (Egen samling på over 3.800)
- Bøger og skriftlige medier som avisartikler, dime-novels og magasiner (markeret med * på nedenstående liste er bøger på egen reol samt digitale kopier)
- samt forskellige offentligt tilgængelige hjemmesider og blogs på internettet, hvorfra de fleste billeder (fotos og plakater) er gengivet fra.
Af praktiske hensyn listes her kun bøger og andre skriftlige kilder.
Bøger
100 Voices from the Little Bighorn: Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, Arikara and American eye-witness accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Bruce Brown*
1001 Film, Du skal se før du dør / Sten Jay Schneider*
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus / Charles C. Mann
About John Ford / Lindsay Anderson*
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill / William F. Cody*
American Civil War, Encyclopædia Britannica
American Indians / Harvey Markowitz
The American West / Dee Brown*
The American Western / Stephen McVeigh*
Den Amerikanske Borgerkrig / John Keegan*
Den Amerikanske Revolution / Johannes Nielsen
Any Gun Can Play (The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns) / Kevin Grant*
Atlas of the Sioux Wars / Charles D. Collins, Jr.*
Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend / Robert K. DeArment*
Battle of The Alamo / Stephen L. Hardin
The BFI Companion to The Western / Edward Buscombe*
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves / Art T. Burton*
Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands / Katherine Benton-Cohen
The Bradshaw Movie Collection / John Bradshaw and Robert DeMayo*
Butch Cassidy: A Biography / Richard Patterson*
B Western Actors Encyclopedia / Ted Holland
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music / Mervyn Cooke
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier / Scott Zesch
Children of Grace: The Nez Perce War of 1877 / Bruce Hampton
Cinema Southwest / John A. Murray*
Colonists in Bondage – White Servitude and Convict Labour in America 1607-1776 / Abbot Emerson Smith*
Company Of Heroes: My Life As An Actor In The John Ford Stock Company / Harry Carey, Jr.
Complete Guide to Film Scoring / Richard Davis*
Cowboynationen / Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Torben Huus Larsen*
The Crowded Praire / Michael Coyne*
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 / Sarah Raymond Herndon*
A Documentary History of the Mexican Americans (1971) / Wayne Moquin, Charles Van Doren Mo-quin
Duel of Eagles: The Mexican and U.S. fight for the Alamo (1990) / Jeff Long
The Earp-Holliday Trial: An Account / Douglas Linder
The Encyclopedia of Westerns / Herb Fagen*
Escape Artist: The Life And Films Of John Sturges / Glenn Lovell
Et liv på kanten / Frank Ørsted Andersen*
Filming the West of Zane Grey / Ed Hulse
The Films Of Audie Murphy / Bob Larkins
The Films Of Budd Boetticher / Robert Nott
The Films Of Randolph Scott / Robert Nott
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War / Eric Foner
Geronimo's Story of His Life / Geronimo and S. M. Barrett*
George Washington’s Secret War / John A. Nagy*
Ghost Riders in the Sky: The Life of Stan Jones, the Singing Ranger / Michael K. Ward.
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-century America / Richard Slotkin*
Guns of the Old West / Jeff Cooper*
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend / Bob Drury, Tom Clavin*
Highway to Hollywood / Maury Dexter*
The History of the Comstock Lode / G.H. Smith
History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra / Charles Fayette McGlashan*
The Hollywood Posse / Diana Serra Cary
Hollywood Trail Boss / Burt Kennedy
Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History / Peter C. Rollins*
I krig for Lincoln / Anders Bo Rasmussen*
I Was That Masked Man / Clayton Moore
Images of America serien:
- Early Paramount Studios / E.J. Stephens, Michael Christaldi, and Marc Wanamaker
- Early Poverty Row Studios / E.J. Stephens and Marc Wanamaker
- Early Universal City / Robert S. Birchard
- Early Warner Bros. Studios / E.J. Stephens and Marc Wanamaker
- Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry / Fort Lee Film Commission
- Location Filming in the Alabama Hills / Charles Michael Morfin
- Lone Pine / Christopher Langley*
- Movie Studios of Culver City / Julie Lugo Cerra and Marc Wanamaker
- Old Tucson Studios / Paul J. Lawton*
- Paramount Studios: 1940-2000 / Marc Wanamaker, Michael Christaldi, and E.J. Stephens
- Silent-Era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara / Robert S. Birchard
The Indian boundary in the southern colonies 1763–1775 / Louis De Vorsey
Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians / Grant Foreman
Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends / Allen Barra*
Invisible Natives – Myth & Identity in the American Western / Armando José Prats*
John Ford / Peter Bogdanovich
John Ford Made Westerns / Studlar Bernstein*
John Wayne: The Life And Legend / Scott Eyman
The Johnson County War: 1892 Invasion of Northern Wyoming / John W. Davis
King Fisher: His Life and Times / Ovie Clark Fisher and Jeff C. Davis
The Klondike Stampede / Tappan Adney*
Ladies Of The Western / Boyd Magers & Michael Fitzgerald
The Landscapes of Western Movies. A History of Filming on Location, 1900–1970 / Jeremy Agnew
Last Of The Cowboy Heroes / Robert Nott
The Law and Politics of Firearms Regulation in Reconstruction Texas / Mark Anthony Frassetto*
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West / Patrick Nelson Limerick*
The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West / Gary Paulsen*
The Library of Congress: The American West, 1865-1900
The Library of Congress: Defence of Fort M'Henry
The Life and Times of the Western Movie / Jay Myams*
The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History / Frederik Nolan
Location Filming in Arizona – The Screen Legacy of the Grand Canyon State / Lili Debarbieri*
The Mammoth Book of Native Americans: The Story of America's Original Inhabitants in All Its Beauty, Magic, Truth and Tragedy / Jon E. Lewis*
The Mammoth Book of Westerns / Jon E. Lewis*
McClure's Magazine, februar 1898, The Bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane*
A Million feet of film, The making of One Eyed Jacks / Toby Roan*
MODOC: The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die / Cheewa James
Mormon Conflict: 1850-1859 / Norman F. Furniss
Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp / Steven Lubet
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson / Mary White Rowlandson*
The Noir Western - Darkness on the Range, 1943–1962 / David Meuel
Once They Moved Like The Wind: Cochise, Geronimo and the Apache Wars / David Roberts*
The Only Good Indian...The Hollywood Gospel / Ralph E. og Natasha A. Friar
The Old West / Stephen G. Hyslop*
The Old West in Fact and Film: History versus Hollywood / Jeremy Agnew*
The Oregon Trail / Francis Parkman Jr.*
The Oxford History of the American West / Clyde A. Milner*
The Plains Across / John Unmh
A Pictorial History of Westerns / Michael Parkinson & Clyde Jeavons*
Picture History of the Civil War / Bruce Catton*
Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940 / Michael R. Pitts
Print The Legend: The Life And Times Of John Ford / Scott Eyman
The Psychology of the Western: How the American Psyche Plays Out on Screen / William Indick
The Ragman's Son / Kirk Douglas
The Real Wyatt Earp: A Documentary Biography / Steve Gatto
Red Sabbath: The Battle of Little Bighorn / Robert Kershaw
Rejsen til Amerika (Drømmen om et nyt liv + Jagten på Lykke) / Ole Sønnichsen*
The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis / David W. Galeson*
Rough guide to Westerns / Paul Simpson*
The Rush to Oklahoma - Harper's Weekly 33 / William Willard Howard*
Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga / Raymond W. and Mary Lund Settle
The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America / Richard Aquila
The Searchers - The Making of an American Legend / Glenn Frankel*
Searching For John Ford: A Life / Joseph McBride
Seeing Red—Hollywood's Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film / LeAnne Howe
Settlement Patterns - Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture / Donald E. Green
The Shooters / Leon Claire Metz*
Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film / John H. Lenihan*
Shoot-em Ups: The Complete Guide to Westerns of the Sound Era / Les Adams and Buck Rainey
Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood / Andrew Brodie Smith
A Siegel Film: An Autobiography / Don Siegel
The Significance of the Frontier in American History / Frederik Jackson Turner*
The Sitting Bull Surrender Census: The Lakotas at Standing Rock Agency, 1881 / Ephriam D. Dickson III*
A Son of the Forest / William Apess*
Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns / Howard Hughes*
Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers / George Durham
Tatanka-Iyotanka – A biography of Sitting Bull / Michael Crummett*
The Tin Star / John M. Cunningham*
To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett / Mark Lee Gardner*
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation / John Ehle
Three Bad Man: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond / Scott Allen Nollen
Universal International Westerns, 1947-63 / Gene Blottner
Universal International Westerns, 1929-46 / Gene Blottner
USA’s Historie / Erling Bjøl*
Vikingerne i Vinland / Willy Wegner
Wells Fargo & Co. Stagecoach and Trainrobberies, 1870-1884 / James B. Hume and John N. Thacker*
The West: An Illustrated History / Geoffrey C. Ward*
The West in Early Cinema / Nanna Verhoeff
THE WEST: The Making of the American West / Jon E Lewis*
West of Everything / Jane Tompkins*
The Western / Phil Hardy
The Western Film Review: A Second Look At Some Popular Western Movies / Chuck Lewis*
Western Places, American Myths: How We Think about the West / Gary J. Hausladen
Westerns – Films through history / Janet Walker*
Westerns – A Guide to the Best (and Worst) Western Movies on DVD / John Howard Ried*
Westerns. The Hollywood Hero. Theory & Analysis / Holm, Claus Krohn & Weisberg, Mette & Weis-berg, Niels
Westerns and American Culture, 1930-1955 / R. Philip Loy*
Westerns in a Changing America, 1955-2000 / R. Philip Loy*
Westerns Women / Boyd Magers & Michael Fitzgerald
The Westerners / Dee Brown*
What is Cinema? – Volume I / André Bazin*
What is Cinema? – Volume II / André Bazin*
When Hollywood Came to Town / James V. D’Arc*
Where God Put the West: Movie Making in the Desert / Bette L. Stanton*
White Hats And Silver Spurs / Herb Fagan
Who The Devil Made It / Peter Bogdanovich
Who The Hell's In It / Peter Bogdanovich
Wild Bill Elliott / Gene Blottner
The Wild West: History, myth & the making of America / Frederick Nolan*
Wild West Movies: Or How the West Was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten / Kim Newman*
Wondrous Times On The Frontier / Dee Brown*
Wounded Knee & the Ghost Dance Tragedy / Jack Utter
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend / Casey Tefertiller*
The Years Of George Montgomery / George Montgomery
The Young Duke: The Early Life of John Wayne / Howard Kazanjian, Chris Enss*
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Selvom relevant information på internettet løbende bliver opdateret og private hjemmesider bliver oprettet og lukket, er der dog nogle rimelig stabile og troværdige informationskilder på internettet, udover de mange skriftlige kilder, som har været til inspiration og indgået i skabelsen af denne blog. Af disse skal fremhæves nogle få udvalgte:
