Preston Mota and Betty Gilpin in 'American Primeval' (2025) (Credit: Netflix via IMDb). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the ...

Set during the infamous Utah War in the late 1850s, Netflix's latest bingeworthy series, American Primeval, is a frontier Western that chronicles one of the harshest times in United States history.

The West has long captivated Americans’ imaginations with its iconic vistas and mythical lore. Mountains jutting toward the heavens. Windswept valleys and ochre-colored deserts. A land of rugged ...

In Netflix's gritty, brutal Western series American Primeval, Betty Gilpin plays a woman determined to get herself and her son across the frontier. But along the way, they find themselves caught up in ...

For decades, Hollywood has shaped the myth of the American West through its fixation on cowboys and Indians — a genre that has dominated cinema and television with romanticized portrayals of frontier ...

A closer look at the skilled Black riders, ropers, and trail hands who shaped the frontier long before Hollywood rewrote […] The post Real Cowboys of the American West: The Black horsemen who drove ...