Just a sampling of what our readers are saying....

"I came upon your web site just yesterday, and I've spent more time searching your site then all the others combined. I love anything western so to me your web site is a blessing, and a real enjoyment."
James Lee Weaver Sr.
Danville, VA

"Your website is a must stop for folks who love the American West, who research its history, and who enjoy its poetry and literature. Your site proudly celebrates Western culture. I stop by on a regular basis."
David Althouse
Oklahoma City, OK

"There is nothing better than reading a great piece of literature. What's even better is that this site allows you to truly experience it...by reading it."
Samantha Dorothy Lee
Catskill, NY

"Loved your site.  This is where I'm gonna settle."
Bill Grant
Belvedere, England

"Instead of a coffee break in my busy day, I click onto American Western Magazine to relax.  ...The articles are very entertaining. I especially enjoy the stories about Western authors and the behind the scenes peek of their books being made into movies. Nobody can honor Louie L'Amour's memory like Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott.
Thank you for having a web site that is both educational and inspiring."
Kathlyn Fowler
Houston, Texas

"Love it!"
Ellie Foley
Co Wexford, Ireland

"Hi, I am from South Africa and recently visited Texas and Kansas which I fell in LOVE with... This is my first visit to this site and I know it won't be my last!"
Gwenda T Bosse
Durban, Napal

"I cannot thank you enough for an insight to the Old West. Most informative and enjoyable."
Jayne Raybould
Lincoln, England

"I like your western writer sites that I did not find until this site. Well done."
Lorcan Levers
Wirral, England"

"I fell into your site quite by accident when I was looking up information on Louis L'Amour. Your site stands out above a lot of other so called western sites. Thanks."
Steve MacDowall Moncton
New Brunswick, Canada

"It's great to have a site dedicated to the West... This is what the internet is all about."
Phil Hardcastle
Auckland, New Zealand

"Great on-line magazine, a truly complete cowboy reference source."
Carmelo Echevarria
Salinas, Puerto Rico

"This is a great site. I got into reading westerns a couple of years ago and its about all I read these days. I really enjoy the interviews you have with authors and actors. This is a very well done site you have going. Keep up the great work."
John Forthman
Little Rock, AR

"I was just clickin' my way when this great site came up! ...At last a site for Western people! YeeHaw!"
Dori D. Bailey
Clovis, CA

"I love westerns, and this is the best site that I have found for fans of the western genre."
Kurt M. Roberts
Connelly Springs, NC

"I found this site. I love it. I use it more than any of my other bookmarks. Super."
Dale Burns
Milan, Tn

"I love the books this site talks about. Ample room is given for descriptions of the book. A person comes away with an idea of what the book is about. There are so many areas from art to music to reading and events. It's a terrific site!"
Vickie Coonfare
Billings, MT

"What a great website!! My compliments to you. There's a little bit of everything for everyone."
B. Kramer
Seattle, WA

"...The site is entertaining, enlightening and well thought out. My only problem is that there's just not enough time in my day to really go through the site--there's just too much really good stuff here!! Keep up the great work!!!"
Merrill Conn
Valley Stream, NY

"This is one hell of a site - gives this ranch hand something to do!"
Jim Conkle
Sabinepass, TX

"Thank you for a doorway into the West--old and contemporary--for people whose hearts are there but they can't live there for now."
Craig DiBenedictis
Brick, NJ

"I thoroughly enjoy your online magazine. Very informative, and I like that you have info on Black history and Women in the West my two fave subjects...also enjoy the cowboy poetry, too."
Sabrina Messenger
Medford, OR

American Western Magazine - ReadTheWest.com [Library of Congress registration ISSN: 1523-6692] is the leading online promotional magazine of the American West with special focus on today's real ranching West. The operational base of this online venture is located on a working cattle ranch in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The online magazine was founded in 1998 by Taylor Fogarty, president of Continental Publishing of Colorado, LLC. The magazine was developed as a celebration of our rich Western heritage and was the first professionally-run site on the World Wide Web to bring together all things that relate to the American West -- film, literature, art, music, history and poetry -- and it is offered in an entirely free format online.

Offering factual content as well, the site has been utilized by many high schools and in college level literature and history courses as an in-class teaching aid. The website is also is host and official website home to some of today's leading authors in the Western genre, including historians and such award-winning writers as Richard S. Wheeler, Dale Walker, Candy Moulton, Chip Carlson, Bill Kelly, screenwriter Jack Curtis and many more. Regular monthly columnists include Baxter Black, Gwen Petersen, Bonnie Anderson and historian Linda Wommack.

Known worldwide as The Internet Source for Western" this online venture receives over 3 million hits per month.  Now updated weekly in a fresh new format on (except for 2 combined summer issues), the online magazine consists of roughly 1,200 archived pages of short fiction, poetry, book reviews and excerpts, rodeo news, columns on ranching issues, horse training and Old West history as well as fascinating in depth interviews with actors, directors, artists, authors, and musicians.

Taylor Fogarty's professional affiliations include membership in Wyoming Writers Inc., and she had also been an active member of Western Writers of America and had served on that organization's Hall of Fame committee from 2000-2004.  In 1998 her short story "The Dime-A-Dozen Man" won First Place in the adult fiction category of Wyoming Writers' annual writing contest. Fogarty was also named recipient of the Emmie Mygatt Memorial Scholarship that same year. Today, her exclusive celebrity interviews spotlight the very best within today's western film & music genre, and include such personalities as film director Simon Wincer (Lonesome Dove, Crossfire Trail), Tom Selleck, Barry Corbin, Sam Elliott, Bo Hopkins, Michael Spears, Red Steagall, Michael Martin Murphey, Chris LeDoux, and James Arness (Marshal Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke TV series fame).  In 2003, the online magazine became a Turner Network Television Partner, promoting the Tom Selleck western, Monte Walsh. Ms. Fogarty's interview with Tom Selleck was also featured on the TNT website.

Ms. Fogarty's most recent piece of short fiction, "One Man's Land" has the honor of appearing as the lead story in the new Spur Award-winning anthology HOT BISCUITS - Eighteen Stories by Women & Men of the Ranching West, published in hardcover by the University of New Mexico Press and edited by Candy Moulton and Max Evans (author of over 29 novels and whose film credits include THE HI-LO COUNTRY and THE ROUNDERS).

The online magazine's readership spans the globe and has quickly become a well-respected publication in its own right. Since its inception Ms. Fogarty has been interviewed by the Ireland radio station RTE One and was contacted by Alain Lasfargues, a director from Paris under contract with France 2 Television, interested in shooting an interview segment with her for a TV documentary about the American West.

Ms. Fogarty was also interviewed by journalist Jean Henry-Mead. The interview with this "bunkhouse publisher" appears in Mead's new book, WESTERNERS, a twenty-year collection of historic interviews with such "extraordinary westerners" as Pulitzer award-winning author A.B. Guthrie, cowboy lawyer Gerry Spence, Vice President Dick Cheney, western authors Will Henry and Louis L'Amour, early aviatrix Lucille Wright, Bill Cody (Buffalo Bill's grandson), and many others.

GO WEST, YOUNG MAN film project:
[view behind-the-scenes photos]
In the summer of 2002, Ms. Fogarty completed a segment for a documentary, (which was shot in part on location on the ranch), by independent production company from Amsterdam. The film project, produced by Pieter van Huystee Film & TV, is directed by esteemed Dutch filmmakers Mart Dominicus and Peter Delpeut, both of whom are award-winning 20-year veterans of the industry there.

This 80-minute feature documentary got Hollywood's attention, receiving high praise from Variety, in which reviewer Scott Foundas writes: "...this engaging, folkloric travelogue is a must for genre buffs and a natural for wider [film] fest exposure, particularly in the western U.S."  [Read full report of Variety review]

GO WEST, YOUNG MAN, is a cinematographic road movie that pays homage to the icons of the western film. Others appearing in the film are: director/writer John Milius, (Rough Riders, Geronimo: An American Legend, Clear and Present Danger, Jeremiah Johnson),  director/cinematographer William A. Fraker (Monte Walsh (1970), Waking Up in Reno, Tombstone, Murphy's Romance, 1941, Paint Your Wagon); Wyoming author Annie Proulx, cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell, cowboy photographer Adam Jahiel, the Eaves Movie Ranch, Mescal film set, Tombstone, Hartmut Bitomsky (German director/writer/producer), Dan Israels, plus cowboys, cattle and horses.

The film's musical score was recorded in Moscow by the Moscow Symphonic Orchestra.

The World première of this film was Sunday, January 26th, 2003 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Several screenings of the original 1970 film Monte Walsh, the extraordinary western directed by William Fraker, also took place during the festival. Go West, Young Man was released in Dutch film theaters April 2003. The Dutch Film Museum accompanied the release with a two month retrospective of westerns.

Other Film Festival Screenings
The documentary was selected for the Locarno Critics Week at the 56th Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland), and appeared at the Montreal World Film Festival (Canada) in September 2003, and was entered into competition at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, Holland. Go West, Young Man received its American premier at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. in September 2003, and in October 2003 it screened at the Denver International Film Festival.

The overall goal of American Western Magazine is to educate the world about the people, cultures, history, arts and traditions of the American West, both past and present.

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