Louis L'Amour's Hondo novelization helped launch his career as a writer and serves as a more powerful depiction than even the John Wayne film.

As we fast approach the 250th anniversary of American independence, it’s time to get Wayne’s American Freedom Train back on the tracks as part of the quarter-millennium celebration.

Reprising the American Freedom Train is a big part of that. Let’s bring back John Wayne’s rolling tribute to America’s finest.

Ross Rowland, who spearheaded the American Freedom Train effort as a young man, recently told me how Wayne came to have the idea. Rowland had run away from home in the 1950s and fortuitously ended ...

John Wayne plays Colonel Mike Kirby, who leads a squad of U.S. Special Forces into Vietnam to train South Vietnamese troops. In a clear bid to “win hearts and minds,” the film hides American ...