Book excerpt: This fascinating volume, The Making of the Great Westerns, examines 30 of the best in screen history, from their inception to release and sometimes after. Author Bill Meyer researches and scrutinizes the films and the people who made them. He takes us back behind the cameras and tells us how the directors worked with the producers, writers, and actors, how they came together to make the film, and what happened during production. We learn what the critics said, what place the work holds in critical history, much more.--Description from inside cover.