How the West Was Won (1962)








A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.


Books with substantial mentioning of How the West Was Won

Fred Landesman
The John Wayne Filmography
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2004

William Darby
John Ford's Westerns, A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1996

Mark Ricci, Boris Zmijewsky, Steve Zmijewsky
The Complete Films of John Wayne
New York, NY, 1995

Christian Unucka
Richard Widmark und seine Filme, Ein filmographischer Bildband
Hebertshausen, 1984

Tony Thomas
The Complete Films of Henry Fonda
Secaucus, NJ, 1983

Books with an entry on How the West Was Won

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003

Articles with substantial mentioning of How the West Was Won

Scott Allen Nollen with Douglas Brode, Screen Historian or American Myth Maker?, The Civil War According to John Ford, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017

Teresa Podlesney, Comedy and the Dismantling of the Hollywood Western, in: Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Malden, MA, Oxford, Chichester, 2012