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Classic Movies
The “Heart” of Cowboys & Aliens
- Published August 28, 2011
- Written by Henry Cabot Beck
Mars needs cowgirls.
Cowboys and Monsters
- Published August 28, 2011
- Written by Courtney Joyner
Decades before Cowboys & Aliens moviegoers watched Billy the Kid vs. Dracula and Haunted Gold, before they saw Daniel Craig take on the Martians, cowboys have fought dinosaurs, ghosts, demons, vampires and even Frankenstein’s daughter.
Geronimo! According to Hollywood.
- Published January 11, 2011
- Written by John Langellier
In 1889, novelist Edward Ellis’s On the Trail of Geronimo was one of the first of more than 150 fictional titles to treat the people commonly referred to today as the Apache.
True Masterpiece
- Published March 29, 2011
- Written by Paul Andrew Hutton
True Grit is an American masterpiece. The success of the film by Joel and Ethan Coen has surprised pundits and led, yet again, to predictions of the return of the Western.
How Hollywood Saved the Durango & Silverton
- Published February 16, 2010
- Written by Jana Bommersbach
Everyone’s heard the iconic children’s tale about the “little engine that could.” But few realize a real-life version exists.
Robert Conrad Dares Ya
- Published February 22, 2011
- Written by Henry Cabot Beck
Robert Conrad is tough.
Cowboys in Combat
- Published March 01, 2009
- Written by Richard L. Hayes
Most movie cowboys were not real cowboys.
