In the March 13, 2003 issue of Variety, the daily trade digest of the film industry, reviewer Scott Foundas says, "...this engaging, folkloric travelogue is a must for genre buffs and a natural for wider [film] fest exposure, particularly in the western U.S."

So goes it for the first American review of the Dutch documentary "Go West, Young Man!"

This feature documentary, which had its world premier at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) this past January, is a cinematographic road movie that pays homage to the icons of the western film and explores what it is to be a cowboy. Last summer esteemed Dutch filmmakers Peter Delpeut and Mart Dominicus took a film crew and set out on a road trip traveling from Colorado to California. The two self-confessed junkies of westerns, both 20-year veterans of the film industry, effortlessly grasped onto what the western mystique is all about and captured it on film.

"What's so appealing is the way the helmers entrust the telling of their story to the land itself," Foundas writes in his review. "...And if 80 minutes of screen time is hardly enough for an exhaustive study, it's enough time for the pic to bring to life the seductive, private freedom promised by big skies, dramatic mountain landscapes and men of honor galloping across the horizon, all of which contributes to a larger notion of the West as mythic, boundless expanse."

Among those appearing in the film are: director/writer John Milius, (Rough Riders), director/cinematographer William A. Fraker (Monte Walsh; 1970); author Annie Proulx, cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell, cowboy photographer Adam Jahiel, Hartmut Bitomsky (German director/writer/producer), and Taylor Fogarty (founder and publisher of American Western Magazine - ReadTheWest.com). The film's musical score was recorded in Moscow by the Moscow Symphonic Orchestra, and the project was produced by Pieter van Huystee Film & TV of Amsterdam.

Fogarty completed her segment of the documentary early last summer. Shot on the ranch where she lives and works, Fogarty spoke to the important role that land plays in the western, a theme close to her heart and one that was at play in her short story "One Man's Land", which appears as the lead story in HOT BISCUITS, a new anthology edited by Max Evans and Candy Moulton.

"Overall, I was very impressed by the sheer dedication to quality that everyone in the film crew put into this project during its making, and I'm very very proud to be a part of it. As a group we each were operating out of the deep passion that we have for the genre, and I think that comes off beautifully on screen," says Taylor Fogarty, who also acts as the magazine's entertainment editor. In the past year Fogarty had also taken part in an interview with RTE One, a major radio broadcast company in Ireland, and had been approached by a television director who was putting together a documentary project for a major television station in France.

"The international interest of the Western is tremendous and should not be taken for granted," Fogarty stresses. "In terms of how this relates to the magazine, lately I've corresponded with individuals all around the world who have contacted me and enthusiastically offered to share their interest or expertise as it relates to this genre.

"And should a language barrier exist, it doesn't keep them from writing. I recently received a letter written in slightly broken English from an Equine historian in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I look forward to working with him as well as others. Given that a healthy percentage of our online readership is anchored overseas, we've got an unusual responsibility to acknowledge there, in that it is one which most print publications have no need to consider. And in direct response to this commission, we have recently added other foreign freelance correspondents to the magazine: an author from Germany and the other is a film director from Georgia, part of the ex-Soviet Republic. Each of these contributors add remarkable depth to the overall content of the magazine and I'm extremely happy to have them on board.

"So with an interested worldwide market like this, now at hand," Fogarty adds, "it should act as a great energizing force for those professionals here in the States who have been hanging in there and keeping the faith while carving out a living in this great genre, be they authors or those working within the film industry."

During the filming of the documentary, the directors also focused on Fogarty's pet project, the "Hey, Hollywood!" online campaign, which is a part of the online magazine. This unique online forum was also mentioned in the Variety review:  "Though [the film] might easily have assumed a mournful, death-of-the-West stance, both the filmmakers and their subjects are more circumspect on this subject. One section of the pic even documents a grass-roots letter-writing campaign organized to get Hollywood to start making westerns again."
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The U.S. premier of "Go West, Young Man!" will take place later this year.