tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61296857562577304472024-02-20T06:23:26.414-08:00Observations from the Slash YSurveying the wreckage of 20th century westernsBrian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-20171312038087095132018-01-15T15:07:00.000-08:002018-01-15T15:08:39.590-08:00Donald Hamilton's introduction to Iron Men and Silver Stars (1967)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Embedded below is Donald Hamilton's introduction to the 1967 anthology of western short stories that he edited, Iron Men and Silver Stars </div>
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<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B57Px503IMaDWXBOU3plZ0w4SzlmeTdsVHJEQ3FKaUh2XzFV/preview" width="640"></iframe>Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-60059370789080923762018-01-05T04:49:00.002-08:002018-01-05T04:53:58.358-08:00Remembering Jack Schaefer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"There aren’t any more guns in the valley."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wanted to take a quick moment to acknowledge that Jack Schaefer quietly, too quietly, had a good year.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jack Schaefer is one of the best western writers the genre has ever produced and is one of my favorite writers. His <i>Monte Walsh</i> is a forgotten American classic.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earlier this year <i>Logan</i> was released to much acclaim. The movie was heavily influenced by, and explicitly referenced, the movie <i>Shane</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Logan's</i> most memorable line, which comes near the end, is a slightly tweaked variation of the line from <i>Shane</i>* that appears as the title of this piece.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Logan's</i> director, James Mangold, is a big fan of the movie <i>Shane</i>. <a href="https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/logan-director-james-mangold-essay-shane/">In 2013 he introduced a screening of Shane at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.</a> Unfortunately, his comments praise everyone involved with the movie except the man who wrote the book it was based on. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"<i>Shane</i> is a fever dream of American aspirations, values and character, conflicts with right and wrong, our ongoing struggle with the contradictory goals of freedom and law, self-reliance and big business-- and definitions and explorations of heroism, courage and family responsibility all observed and made even more penetrating when they are brought to life in an environment without cars, phones and the ability to dial 911 whenever you feel nervous." </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A.B. Guthrie Jr. wrote a great script, that can't be denied, and won't be here. But the foundation was already there in the novel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">*All credit where it is due. The line in the movie <i>Shane</i> was written by A.G. Guthrie Jr. and does not appear in the novel by Jack Schaefer. Guthrie also is a writer very much worth your time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This time last year Jack Schaefer only had one book in print, his perennial classic, <i>Shane</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.unmpress.com/search_results.php?search_type=author_full_name&search_term=Jack%20Schaefer&first_name=Jack&last_name=Schaefer">Spread over a few months in 2017, the University of New Mexico Press began reissuing a number of Jack Schaefer's books.</a> This was done with little to no fanfare and no publicity push. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I said above, <i>Shane</i> is a classic and <i>Monte Walsh</i> is one of my favorite books. I held a long time, secret hope that <i>Monte Walsh</i> would be reissued by someone like NYRB Classics. I saw the success they had with the noir classic <i>Black Wings Has My Angel</i> and I was, admittedly, projecting some level of success and recognition on a book I love.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The problem with the reissue is that as a college press, these books are not going to make it to readers and they are expensive. The upside is at least now some readers have a slightly increased chance of finding them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In November of 2017, Netflix released <i>Godless</i>, a six part western, written by Scott Frank, the screenwriter for <i>Logan</i>. Visually and in the writing, <i>Godless</i> has fun referencing and riffing on a number of westerns including <i>The Searchers</i>, <i>Blood Meridian</i>, <i>Django</i> and <i>Shane</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few people, including Priscilla Page on Twitter, have pointed out the many visual doorway cues in <i>Godless</i> that reference <i>The Searchers</i> most famous shot. Even more people have commented on <i>Godless</i> being <i>Blood Meridian</i> lite. Perhaps due to his moribund literary reputation, the reworking and influence of <i>Shane</i> on one of the story arcs has gone largely unnoticed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">People regularly acknowledge the birthdays of celebrities, actors, writers, etc. who have died. We've all see these posts on social media and have probably shared them. At their goofiest they celebrate a phantom birthday in a comical way that suggests that the person would have lived to a ludicrous age. At their best, they provide an opportunity to assess and acknowledge that person and their work. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">On November 19th, 2017 Jack Schaefer would have been 100 years old. No one noticed. </span>Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-41131812413587833882017-11-11T05:06:00.001-08:002017-11-11T05:06:01.998-08:002017 western recommendations from True West magazine<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #545353; font-family: Lora; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">
<a href="https://truewestmagazine.com/locked-and-loaded-western-history/">Western history and fiction publishers have had an outstanding year across all genres and categories. With the growth in electronic and audio books, as well as in self-publishing and Internet sales in new and used books, readers, collectors and listeners have more choices and more opportunity to read, learn and relax with a Western-genre book.</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://truewestmagazine.com/locked-and-loaded-western-history/">As we approach the end-of-the year holiday season, I offer our <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">True West</i> readers a review and sampling of Western books from the year that will satisfy the most particular interests as you consider gift-giving to loved ones—or even to yourself!</a></blockquote>
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Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-82955361885564318602017-10-16T08:23:00.000-07:002017-10-16T08:23:30.084-07:00Bill Anton: Western Artist SpotlightToday I'm taking a look at the western art of Bill Anton. Here are a selection of his pieces, for more information and more art, <a href="http://www.billantonstudio.com/">check out his website</a>.<br />
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Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-79264240493228715822017-10-12T05:17:00.000-07:002017-10-16T08:12:59.991-07:00Krystii Melaine: Western Artist SpotlightToday I am featuring some of the western art of Krystii Melaine. Check out <a href="https://krystiimelaine.com/">her website</a> for more art and more information.<br />
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<br />Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-33591108601990793012017-10-11T06:21:00.002-07:002017-10-11T06:38:29.886-07:00Mark Maggiori: Western Artist SpotlightToday I am featuring the western art of Mark Maggiori, a french artist who recent;y turned his eye towards the American West. Check <a href="http://www.markmaggiori.com/">out his website</a> for more images, here is <a href="http://facebook.com/mark.maggiori">his Facebook page</a> if you want to follow him and give him a shout-out.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 14px;">I've remarked before that reading old westerns these days is a lot like panning for gold. There are a substantial amount of forgotten, under-remembered, great writers and books. And holy shit is this a good book. One that even the western cognoscenti seems to have forgotten about. He was a contemporary of DeRosso and his work was, in many ways, darker. DeRosso has been able to find a small cult audience over the years, Loomis is still waiting for his. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 14px;">Loomis is forgotten and shouldn't be. His reputation should rest on his five best novels. A Noel Loomis omnibus (maybe 2 vols.) from Stark House with the following novels: West of the Sun, Shortcut to Red River, Rim of the Caprock, Cheyenne War Cry, and The Twilighters, introduction by Bill Pronzini is a thing that should exist. Stark House and Loomis would make a great fit. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14px;">Violence shapes the work of Noel M. Loomis. There is a savage force at work in his novels, evoking the atmosphere of a harsh untamed land. His writing captures the taste and scent of another time when danger stalked a man with every stride and life hung by a thread. Yet the violence is not all. Against the cruelty of man and nature Loomis sets his heroes, tough, honest men embodying the frontier virtues, strong enough to face the challenge of the land and tame it.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">Some of Loomis's early work appears under pseudonyms such as Sam Allison and Frank Miller, names which served him for the novels Trouble on the Crazyman and Tejas Country. Nevertheless, his reputation rests justly-on the handful of novels produced under his own name between 1952 and 1959 when his creative powers were at their peak. Five outstanding works, whose merits indicate their author as the foremost in his field, are Rim of the Caprock, The Twilighters, Rifles on the River, The Leaden Cache, and Connelly's Expedition. In each of these novels, Loomis selects a precise time and place, and brings then stunningly alive. The "feel" of the period is magnificently caught in description, in attitudes revealed by the laconic dialogue, most of all in full-blooded action which at times takes the breath away. The sense of barbaric savagery in whites and redskins alike anticipates the Eastwood vogue in the cinema by 10 or 15 years, in works which that cult has never equalled. The with its casual stomach-turning violence, is among Twilighters, the most savage books in the genre. It is also a tour de force, a superb picture of wilderness America at the time of the 1802 Louisiana Purchase. And in the honest, hardy Nathan Price it has possibly the finest of Loomis's heroes, a man whose struggle with his conscience renders him more human than most.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">Though brutality is part of the world he describes, Loomis does not rely on it for his effects. His plots are authentic and imaginative, often with a strong historical basis. Rifles on the River (in the U.S., West to the Sun) takes the frontiersman Dan Shankle through Comanche ambushes and imprisonment in Mexico in the 1770's, returning him at last to unmask and kill the gunrunner Meservy prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Ross Phillips in Connelly's Expedition (Short Cut to Red River in its American edition) braves attacks by Indians and renegade whites as he leads a trading expedition from Chihuahua to Arkansas. Rim of the Caprock shows life among the Comancheros in Texas while in The Le Cache (Cheyenne War Cry in the U.S.) Stuart Nichols undertakes a dangerous mission to prevent lead and powder from falling into Indian hands. Captured by the Cheyennes, he undergoes horrifying tortures before being rescued. The savagery is present in every book- the scalping and mutilation, the massacres, the vicious frontier fighting with its biting and eye gouging. Loomis describes this darker side of western life without comment, but at no time is he seen to condone it. Though never "soft" or "liberal" in his sentiments, he shows a refreshing racial tolerance, with Indians and Mexicans often shown in a good, if unromantic, light. Two of his heroes marry Mexican girls, and most of them count them among their friends. The strength of Loomis lies not in his cruelty but in his vigor, and this breathes life equally into villains and men of solid virtues. Usually the latter prevail.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is true of The Twilighters, most violent and convincing Loomis's works. The plot brings together two related threads, the family of the despotic Mat Foley-run out of Mississippi for the killing of a neighbour's son and the outlaw bands of Harpe and Mason. Opening with a murder by Harpe and his accomplice Claydon, the plot shifts to the Foleys, and traces the circumstances which lead to the death of the boy, and the family exodus which crosses the path of the outlaws Nathan Price defies Mat, his father-in-law, and with his wife sets off to begin afresh. He avoids the fate of the others, who are massacred by the Twilighters at a river crossing. A fight to the death between two of the outlaws ends the book. The violence described in terse prose, is often appalling. Yet at the heart of it, Nathan endures, and it is with him that the reader's sympathies lie. In time, we know, his kind will tame the wilderness.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">The work of Loomis is far ahead of its time. No other western writer of the 1950's depicts so honestly the nature of the land and its people, or renders them so alive. Avoiding commentary concentrates on the atmosphere of time and place experiences with him the of Indian camps and frontier trading posts, the breathtaking vision of the Caprock, the of a surprise attack. Loomis, in his swift en terror character his descriptions, his lithe brings world to life before our eyes. In the field he chose, he has yet to be surpassed as cadier</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">I really liked The Broken Country.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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<span style="background: white;">It manages the fine trick of being both an original take on
the western while also being a recognizably, full-throated western. Elements of
some of the traditional western story lines are combined to great effect.
There's the "you shot my pa" story; the "revenge soaked
western" story; there's the "prodigal western son returns home to
reclaim what's his" story. While Merrigan may be aware of the traditional
western story elements, he only wants to flirt and dance with them, not be
married to and limited by them because they are all small parts of a larger
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<span style="background: white;">And the whole is a bloody, violent, and harsh story (as
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<span style="background: white;">-Hal the bounty hunter is like a Tarantino character (which
is meant as a compliment).</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<span style="background: white;">-More Qa'un!</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Set in post-apocalyptic 1876, THE BROKEN COUNTRY tracks the scabrous exploits of the outlaws Cyrus and Galina Van. The pair kidnaps a naïve, young scion and head west in pursuit of gold, glory, and respect. Along the trail they met Atlante Ames, a mapper who euthanized her own father and now seeks her twin brother, himself gone outlaw in the ravaged West. In cold pursuit rides the implacable bounty hunter Hal, who takes scalps in the name of Jesus Christ and the science of phrenology, and the contemplative Buddhist assassin Qa'un, paying off the bloodprice he owes Hal … bounty by bloody bounty. Cyrus and Galina's hard road west comes to a head in a dynamite-tossing, six-gun-blazing shootout at the old train depot in Laramie. A dark journey to a time when wagon trains have retreated and the Old West is haunted by bonepickers and starving tribes, THE BROKEN COUNTRY: BEING THE SCABROUS EXPLOITS OF CYRUS & GALINA VAN, HELLBENT WEST DURING THE EIGHTH YEAR OF THE HARROWS, 1876; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF MAPPERS, BOUNTY HUNTERS, A TATAR, AND THE SCIENCE OF PHRENOLOGY is unlike any other book you will read this year.</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span></i>
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<span style="background: #fafafa; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>One year after the end of
the Civil War, three southerners are heading northwest on the Bozeman Trail to
the gold mining camp at Virginia City. When they find the army has closed the
trail because the Sioux are on the warpath, the three friends accept work at
Fort Phil Kearny. After an Indian ambush, the men flee the fort, together with
a man called Slade. But there is more to Slade than meets the eye, and when he
is revealed as a hired gun and murderer the southerners are drawn into the hunt
to apprehend him to clear their names.</i></span><br />
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after the Civil War. They are an affable bunch and the reader quickly falls
into the familiarity that they share with each other. However, the story quickly widens up to
include a larger than life bad guy, some crooked vice peddlers in a gold town,
Union soldiers, and a larger than life man write out of the history books, Jim
Bridger. The pace is swift and always forward moving, the action comes swiftly,
and the reader will be satisfied with the ending as everyone gets what’s coming
to them. <br />
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<span style="background: #FAFAFA;">The classic traditional western is alive and
well in Black Horse Westerns</span></span><br />
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Some upcoming westerns that are worth keeping tabs on. I'll post more when I know more. </div>
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<i>Godless </i>from Steven Soderberg is coming to Netflix in November 2017.</div>
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“<a href="http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/steven-soderbergh-godless-premiere-date-netflix-1202537336/">Godless,” a new seven-part original limited series from creator <span style="color: #0058a8;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">Steven Soderbergh</span></span>, will premiere on Netflix Nov. 22.</a></blockquote>
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<a href="http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/steven-soderbergh-godless-premiere-date-netflix-1202537336/">The western stars <span style="color: #0058a8;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">Jeff Daniels</span></span> as notorious criminal Frank Griffin, who, along with his band of outlaws, is on a mission of revenge against Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell), who betrayed Griffin and his men. While on the run, Roy seeks refuge with hardened widower Alice Fletcher (Michelle Dockery), an outcast herself, in the worn-down, isolated mining town of La Belle, N.M., which is governed mainly by women. When word reaches La Belle that Griffin is headed their way, the town bands together to defend itself against the murderous gang in a lawless western frontier.</a></blockquote>
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<i>Hostiles </i>starring Christian Bale is an<br />
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"...Army captain who agrees to help bring a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their tribal lands in the year 1892. The two men are joined by a suicidal widow, played by Rosamund Pike, who is still grieving over the murder of her family by Comanche Indians.</blockquote>
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Hyde Park is an upcoming western flick. Here's what we know:<br />
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Based on one of the most intense gunfights in the history of the Wild West, Hyde Park tells the story of the rival Sheriffs Mike McCluskie and Billy Bailey and the war waged in South Central Kansas during a 24-month stretch in the early 1870s.</blockquote>
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With an almost overnight explosion, Newton found itself in the cross hairs of two rival communities, the Ohio rail road workers and the Texas Cattle Ranchers who sought to take over the land between their ranches and the tracks. Former Train Policeman and roughman Mike McCluskie is hired by the Santa Fe Train Depot to try to keep the peace. During the election season of 1871, tensions mounted and the patrons from both sides began taking out their frustrations at the town’s brothels and saloons.</blockquote>
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The Texas Cattle Ranchers, determined to stake a claim in the city, inserted their own political force, equipped with their own sheriff, the dangerous and violent Billy Bailey.</blockquote>
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A cast of Western characters began taking hard line positions. Anchored only with the support of James Riley, a vagrant 19-year old boy dying of tuberculosis, McCluskie took it upon himself to rid the town of the Texas Cattle Ranchers once and for all.<br />
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 6 part anthology series coming to Netflix from The Coen Brothers. No images yet but here's what we know about the six parts.<br />
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;">The first of the six is about a singing cowboy and is the title story.</span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;">The second, “Near Algodones,” is about a high-plains drifter whose own fecklessness dogs his attempts at bank robbery and cattle driving.</span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;">The third, “Meal Ticket,” follows an actor and impresario of a traveling show.</span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;">The fourth, “All Gold Canyon,” is about a prospector who happily finds a gold seam but then unhappily finds an evil encroacher.</span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;">The fifth, “The Gal Who Got Rattled,” follows two trail bosses on the Oregon Trail and a woman on the wagon train who needs the help of one of them and who might be a marriage prospect for the other.</span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Adobe Garamond W01, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;">Lastly, “The Mortal Remains,” about the five very different passengers on a stagecoach of mysterious destination.</span></span></blockquote>
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I did this for myself and thought it would be worth sharing. I wanted to kind of take the temperature of the genre, I was curious to see just how many new westerns were being published.<br />
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I'm not sure if this will be a regular monthly feature or not, but if there is enough interest in this type of post, maybe.<br />
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A couple of notes. I did not include any William Johnstone titles. I didn't include most of the reissues I came across. The publishers that have a regular monthly slate of westerns are listed first. I didn't really look at the University presses. I did not include non-fiction titles.<br />
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<b>This is substantial but incomplete</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">At seventeen, Dot Pickett is young to be taking on the role of trail boss on a cattle drive. But Dot’s life has been hard, and he has learnt to be brave, resourceful – and occasionally ruthless.</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now he has successfully led a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas and is setting off for home with the bag of gold owed to the Texan ranchers. But Dot has fallen foul of a notorious outlaw family and he knows that they will try to ambush him. Then when Dot goes to the aid of a young woman, the gold disappears and he embarks upon a quest to retrieve it.</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dot’s search takes him on a long trail of danger, deception and intrigue, leading him from Abilene deep into the bayous of Louisiana, where his courage and determination are pushed to the extreme in order to survive and reclaim the cattlemen’s gold.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gold discovered out in California excites young Dan Bartlett, but life as a ’49er isn’t what he expected. Penniless, hungry and still innocent of life, he takes work holding a few horses, and when his new partner Tom Hodges yells at him to get in the saddle and ride, he naturally does as he’s told.</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then Dan realizes that they are riding stolen stock and, believing the law is behind them, they head into Nevada Territory, where Hodges remembers having seen a little valley, a place where they can start a ranch. But en route for the valley, they come across an abandoned gold mine. It doesn’t matter it isn’t California gold; any gold draws interest – and when Dan finds himself looking into the barrel of a Colt .45 is when he really begins to grow up.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">His name was Billy Swift and he wore a brace of .45s, grips inlaid with silver lightning bolts. They said he was dead, but now he’s back …</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For five years it was thought that the gunfighter known as ‘Lightning Swift’ was dead. He’d just crawled off into the desert to die after being wounded in a gun battle with Harley Mossop and his gang. How wrong everyone was.</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone shot the man who saved his life, so the Lightning Colts have been strapped back on. Soon the air is filled with the smell of burnt powder as the gunfighter with the lightning-fast hands returns from the grave. He’s mad and is not going to stop until the person responsible is planted in the ground.</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then from the past looms a killer. The famous Lightning Swift may not be able to outdraw this one. His name … Laredo Mossop, king of the fast-guns!</span></blockquote>
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Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-53097879636317161792017-07-12T11:18:00.001-07:002017-10-11T06:23:04.815-07:00The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: June Westerns watched<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I hope to turn this into a regular <i>what westerns I watched</i> column with some focus on modern westerns from the last few years.<br />
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We are in the middle of a small western film boom. Some of the titles are high profile projects with acclaim and wide theatrical release. For every high profile release there may be ten low-budget, straight to VOD or streaming service westerns that go practically unnoticed.<br />
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The new westerns seem to fall into three categories.<br />
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There are your big budget, high profile, wide-theatrical release movies like <i>The Revenant</i>, <i>True Grit</i>, <i>Hateful 8</i>, <i>Django Unchained</i>, <i>Magnificent Seven</i>, <i>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford</i>, and others.<br />
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There are your Independent releases that are often acclaimed but don't get as wide a theatrical release. Movies like <i>Meek's Cutoff</i>, <i>Slow West</i>, <i>Jane's Got a Gun</i>, <i>The Salvation</i>, and others.<br />
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There are your low-budget/no-budget westerns that drop somewhere with little to no fanfare. They may feature a "big name" actor in a small role, used more for promotional purposes. A fair bit of them seem to be filmed in Canada and may use filming locations not typically associated with the traditional western, lots of wooded/forest shots for example. What marks them most is lower production values, wooden dialog, and stiff acting.<br />
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With these low-budget/no-budget westerns, curiosity is getting the better of me, I'm tired of scrolling passed these movies so I'm going to start taking a look at some of them. There has to be a diamond in the rough, right?<br />
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As I said, those movies won't be all I watch. I want to re-watch some classics, dip into some TV shows (both old and new), and just create place to talk about western movies.<br />
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Frequency: whenever I have enough to justify a post, I'll post. If something deserves it's own post, I'll do that. These could come weekly, or once a month. We'll see.<br />
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Enough rambling, after the jump is what I've watched recently.<br />
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<b><i>In a Valley of Violence</i> (2016)</b><br />
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A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.</blockquote>
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The opening title sequence is vivid and striking and memorable, even if the influence of Tarantino is greatly felt.<br />
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We got to talk about the dog thing. One things that you will see repeat itself a couple of times, in this column alone, is elevator style pitch reduction that boils down to "X in the west.", or "X as a western". In this case it's John Wick in the west because of the protagonists relationship with a dog.<br />
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<i>In a Valley of Violence</i> is very talky and dialog heavy movie. Which is understandable because the writers probably wanted to give those actors something to chew on. Perhaps a little too talky if you ask me. Westerns should have action.<br />
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James Ransone is perfectly annoying in the movie, playing a version of Ziggy from <i>The Wire</i> and Person in <i>Generation Kill</i>. He's so pitiful and loathsome that you root for his comeuppance. John Travolta plays a character that has seen war and violence and now avoids it at all costs. Kind of a peace-nik character in the middle of a brewing violent confrontation. Interesting character that could have used some more development. Ethan Hawke plays a veteran of the Indian Wars who is tired of fighting but can. So, when the dumbasses, led by Ransone, John Wick the dog it becomes a they done-fucked-up-and-woke-a-sleeping-giant story. You know it isn't going to go well, and doesn't.<br />
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The show-down ending is predictable and satisfying.<br />
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Shout-out to Ethan Hawke's horse riding.<br />
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Best moment: The three way showdown in a vertical line that results in a bloody end for one of the characters. Close second is the My Cousin Vinny like fight (that is shown practically in it's entirety in the trailer).<br />
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Grade: C+/B-<br />
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<b>Jesse James Lawman with Kevin Sorbo and Peter Fonda (2015)</b><br />
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When a small town is overrun by the gang of outlaws. The Mayor finds that they are under the thumb of the gang's leader, villainous Hoyt Killian. The town's sheriff takes it upon himself to hire famed outlaw Jesse James to infiltrate the gang and stop their evil plans from inside their ranks. Its outlaw versus outlaw and to the winner goes the town and it's secret treasures.</blockquote>
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Sorbo plays an older Jesse James giving an interview about his life to a skeptical newspaperman. Most of the movie is a tale from James' past being told to the reporter.<br />
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You'd think, based on the trailer and the poster, that Peter Fonda and Kevin Sorbo are the stars of the movie. They aren't. In fact, they are barely in it. Their combined screen time can't be more that ten minutes. Peter Fonda isn't given much to do here but outshines the other actors without even lifting a finger. Even Sorbo comes off a lot better than the other actors for the little bit he's on screen.<br />
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I liked the idea of this better then the execution. It was marred by cheap production values, a lot of talking, and stilted dialog, and an unconvincing supporting cast. There were hardly any horses, no actors riding horses, average faces, and close ups that don't do the landscape any favors.<br />
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Best moment: When the bad guys discover a traitor they give him a good kicking...that has to be the worst beat down in movie history. You never see the character getting beat, the actors administering the beating barely move their legs, and the foley work is laugh out loud funny.<br />
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Grade: D<br />
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<b>Meek's Cutoff</b><br />
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Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.</blockquote>
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Settlers traveling west had a tough time. Imagine loading all of your belonging up and walking across a strange country. That's a tough thought exercise for those that come after the pioneers carved a path, including us 150 years later. Rarely has there been such a realistic portrayal of the westward journey. The struggle, the monotony, the fear, the desperation, the loneliness. The artifice of the west(ern) has been stripped away. But, and this is important to note, very little happens in this movie.<br />
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Meek's Cutoff is largely told from the women's perspective. They are often left out of conversation and decisions being made. The men will be talking in the middle ground or the distance but the camera stays with the women, watching on, hearing only snatches of discussion that wind carries to them. It's immersive and will be frustrating to some viewers.<br />
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Bottom line: You will either love or hate this movie. No middle ground. While I may not have loved the movie, I've been thinking about the experience a lot since the final credits.<br />
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Best moment: Bruce Greenwood's character. He's almost a caricature and practically feels like he stumbled in from another movie but you can tell Greenwood is having fun with the role.<br />
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Grade: B-<br />
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<b>Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story</b><br />
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A former stagecoach robber is hunted by a vengeful US Marshal.</blockquote>
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Trace Adkins has had a mini-career in the last few years making westerns. And it is easy to see why, he’s tall, has rugged features, and that voice. If ever a man was built to make westerns, it is Adkins. The downside is his limited acting range which can lead to some stilted delivery and interactions with other actors. But damn does he have presence, so here’s hoping for some growth.<br />
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Stagecoach has a well stocked cast with Judd Nelson and Kim Coates and Garry Chalk showing up in a small role. Coates is the main bad guy. You can tell he’s making the most with the part but the writing doesn’t do him justice. Judd Nelson was the real surprise. He’s barely recognizable and steals just about every scene that he is in.<br />
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Best moment: Trace Adkins mounting a horse and riding off. All in one shot.<br />
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Grade: C<br />
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<b>Traded</b><br />
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A father must leave his ranch for Dodge City to save his daughter from an old enemy, putting his reputation as the fastest draw in the west to the test.</blockquote>
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Looking at the poster for Traded you would be forgiven for thinking that Trace Adkins is the star. He isn’t. The hero is played by old-school badass Michael Paré. If the poster had depicted him I probably wouldn’t have waited so long to watch.<br />
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Pare’s daughter is kidnapped and taken to town to work as a whore. Rancher Pare was the wrong guy to fuck with and goes after her. Traded basically boils down to Taken in the West. <br />
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The cast is amazing. Kris Kristofferson plays a crusty old bartender who does what he can to assist Pare on his quest. Trace Adkins is the first bad guy to get in Pare’s way. When you get the reveal of why he traded Pare’s daughter, and what for, you think he’s a total scumbag. Then Martin Kove shows up and steals the whole damn movie with a couple minutes of screen time. Kove is fantastic in this small role. Tom Sizemore shows up as the third act baddie.<br />
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Traded surprised me for how dark and violent is was willing to go. It doesn’t quite go full dark but comes pretty close at times.<br />
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Traded has its flaws but I enjoyed the hell out of it. Adjust your expectations and give it a try.<br />
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Best moment: Martin Kove being such a terrible person that you want to reach through the screen and beat the shit out of him.<br />
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Grade: C+<br />
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<b>The Salvation</b><br />
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In 1870s America, the fury of a notorious gang leader is unleashed when a peaceful American settler avenges the death of his family. Then as his cowardly fellow townspeople betray him, he is forced to hunt down the outlaws alone.</blockquote>
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The Salvation was a really good, formulary western. Mads does a great job in the main role. I actually really liked the actor that played his brother, who looks like he wandered off the set of a forgotten 70s spaghetti western.<br />
The Salvation is great movie to look at, though there are some moments later on where the background CGI is evident (it wasn’t filmed in the US).<br />
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the bad guy and there is one scene that is reminiscent of his role as Negan in the Walking Dead.<br />
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Bottom line is that The Salvation is a B grade B western.<br />
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I was going to do a fuller review of Relentless but Cullen Gallagher already covered some of what I was going to write. <a href="http://www.pulpserenade.com/2011/05/relentless-by-brian-garfield-world.html">Check out his review</a>.</div>
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Some quick thoughts.<br />
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I feel like the works of Brian Garfield, who is very much still alive, isn't talked about as much these days as they should be. Garfield wrote popular novels, with popular characters. He wrote in multiple genres, he won major awards in those genres. Multiple movies were made from his books. If you have never tried a Brian Garfield novel, fix that. If you like his stuff, say so.<br />
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Relentless is an old-school thriller, with a grounded main character, Sam Watchman, who has the kind of competency that you don't see as much in thrillers these days where everyone is a borderline superhero. This is a thriller with its feet on the ground, which makes it more thrilling. One aspect of that groundedness is the little nods to <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">accuracy, in this book you'll find no fantastical briefcase stuffed with millions of dollars. </span><br />
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Any of fans of Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee books should give this one a try.<br />
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Relentless is also considered a neo-western. Neo-westerns are books set in modern times that utilize western tropes and imagery.<br />
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Relentless was filmed as a TV movie in 1977 starring the great Will Sampson. It is out of print but available on Youtube. I won't tell you it's a great movie but it is worth checking out, even out of curiosity. I would love to see a remade filmed version.<br />
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1) "She was a remarkable woman, full of endurance and spirit, but women who chose to live isolated lives on the fringes of the wild country tended to be strong characters. At one point Vickers had told her how anxious her husband was about her and Mrs. Lansford had given him a twisted look and said, How intrepid of him," and looked around as if to emphasize the fact that Ben Lansford wasn't here, hadn't come after her It was evident, and therefore sad, that Mrs. Lansford despised her husband; Watchman found himself regretting that be cause it violated his sense of orderly romantic neatness: a woman is in peril, you rescue her from it, you prepare to return her to her man, and you want her to look forward to that reunion with ecstatic joy. For a moment he resented Mrs Lansford, he made her out to be an ingrate for obscure reasons, he even felt that her attitude somehow threatened everything good between himself and Lisa.<br />
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2) "Jasper isn't any less dead today than he was yesterday Watchman said, but then he had to think about that. He hadn't been raised to believe in eye-for-an-eye retribution; that was a white man's concept. Indian law didn't lean hard on revenge and punishment; it emphasized compensation of the victim instead. But you couldn't compensate Jasper Simalie The question had run through his mind at odd intervals in the past two days and although he had never developed much of an introspective habit he was beginning to realize what was behind this dedication of his that had come out of nowhere and taken him by surprise and stripped away a good many superficial layers of easygoing indifference. When you came right down to it, it didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense: they had killed a Navajo, therefore they needed to be caught by a Navajo. It was a streak of what? nationalism? tribalism? he had never thought he had in him. And there was another idea, too, hard to articulate: somehow he needed to demonstrate that they couldn't be allowed to kill a Navajo brother and get away with it."</blockquote>
Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-33174641678429954552017-05-07T07:07:00.000-07:002017-10-11T06:23:20.298-07:00The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Dorothy M Johnson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For as big as the western genre once was it doesn't have a lot of awards. Other genres have multiple awards, each with a different focus, that offers a broader cross section of that genre. What the western does have is the Western Writers of America. The WWA was founded in 1953, and its main award, The Spur, has been given since then. On one hand the Spurs give some guidance and stability to the genre, offering up <a href="http://westernwriters.org/winners/">a body of nominees and winners going back 60+ years</a>. On the other hand, since the genre is filtered through only one lens, <a href="http://trackofthecat.blogspot.com/2011/05/wednesdays-western-spur-awards-best.html">important western stories</a> <a href="http://trackofthecat.blogspot.com/2011/06/wednesdays-western-rundown-of-best.html">get missed</a>. <br />
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110606155604/http://www.westernwriters.org/best_westerns.htm">The WWA has convened and surveyed its members three times</a> to vote on categories like: Best Western Authors, Best Best Western Novels, Best Best Nonfiction Books, Best Western Films, Best Western Short Stories, Best Western TV Series, Best Television Mini Series. The results provide a great jumping off point for the genre, taken with the grain of salt mentioned above.<br />
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One of the more interesting categories is Best Western Short Stories. There were five spots and Dorothy M Johnson placed in four of them. That's how this book came about. It gathered the four stories that placed in the vote into one edition: "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "A Man Called Horse", "The Hanging Tree", and "Lost Sister" (It's worth mentioning as a quick aside that "The Hanging Tree" clocks in at approximately 140 pages in a trade paperback so to call it a short story is a stretch).<br />
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These stories are ones that western fans are likely familiar with, even if they haven't read them, since three of these stories were made into movies.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to focus on "Lost Sister". One of the realities of life on the frontier was that people were captured by Indians. There is a large body of work, much of it primary source material, about these captures. And the reality is far more nuanced than the fiction. The life of one woman in particular, Cynthia Ann Parker, became a largely influential national obsession. Captured as a child, she lived with the Indians for 24 years. She was married and had children. The life she knew, prior to living with the Indians, was forgotten. Then she was "rescued" by Texas Rangers and returned to her family at the age of 34. Her story, and the story of her son, Quannah Parker, are worth studying and knowing and has been portrayed, or was an influence of, many stories, novels, plays, and movies. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Westerns are, by and large, a male dominant genre--male protagonists and male authors. The male response, as clearly demonstrated in the many stories told about Indian raids, is revenge, violence, and bringing the civilized white woman back into proper society. One of the greatest American movies of all time, The Searchers, focuses on this topic and was largely influenced by Parker's life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In "Lost Sister", published in 1957, </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorothy Johnson, brings a different approach to this story. Johnson chooses to focus on the affects of the forced relocation back into a now unknown world. She recognizes the great sorrow that his woman would have felt for her only known life and her strong desire to return to it. I think that Johnson recognizes the loss and pain in a way that male writers of the time were unable to. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorothy M Johnson is a great writer and one of the very best that the western genre produced. Her work is marked by a great amount of research, empathy, and a broader representation of all who lived on the frontier. </span><br />
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Before becoming a writer Richard Jessup was a merchant marine for 11 years. He taught himself how to write while at sea by copying War & Peace on a typewriter, correcting errors, then throwing all of the pages into the water. His most popular book was <i>The Cincinnati Kid</i>, published in 1963, and made into a movie in 1965 starring Steve McQueen.</div>
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In the 50's and 60's he wrote some westerns under his own name and the name "Richard Telfair" and in 1957 he published <i>Comanche Vengeance</i>. The 50's were a period of strong growth for the genre with a lot of the heavyweights of the genre getting their start or coming into their own. What makes <i>Comanche Vengeance</i> interesting is that it has a strong, competent, female protagonist in a role and a genre typically dominated by male protagonists, especially at that time.<br />
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After her family is murdered by Indians, Sara Phelps sets out, seeking revenge. She meets up with Gibson Duke who insists on helping her out because he doesn't think a woman is up to the task. Sara asserts her independence and capability.<br />
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-“And I told you I didn’t want, or need a man.” Her voice was cold, but not biting. “Why did you follow me?”<br />
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Even buried among the Indian hating typical, and in some cases necessary, for publication in the genre at the time, there are a some small moments where, likely, the author's true feelings assert themselves.<br />
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Like I said, it's the the protagonist (at her best) and the relationship that she has with Duke that are the highlights here. The relationship is mature, without traditionally defined gender roles, and is mutual. They are equals, in every way.<br />
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They knew each other well enough and had been on the trail long enough now to do their camp chores and ride trail for days without speaking.</blockquote>
This extends past domestic roles at camp. Sarah is the better shot of the two, and is often the one to rush into battle, sometimes without a plan. One of my personal pet peeves in fiction is what I call "wait in the car syndrome", where the male character tells a female character to wait while he checks the safety or danger levels of a situation. In the fight and battle scenes in <i>Comanche Vengeance, </i>both characters are equal.<br />
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“Shut up!” Sarah hissed. “I think I heard something.”<br />“Over to your right,” Duke replied. “Circle around, and come up in back. Shoot first and don’t worry about hitting me!”</blockquote>
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<i>Comanche Vengeance</i> is an imperfect and sometimes formulary western, that has moments and characters and relationships that help to elevate it from other westerns of the time. It is not an forgotten classic of the genre but deserves to be remembered for it's early, fair treatment of an adult, mature, female character. At her best, Sarah is a character that doesn't deserve to be forgotten. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Western-Novel-MEGAPACK-ebook/dp/B011SVSNKS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493207857&sr=8-1&keywords=4th+western+megapack">It can be had for a buck on the Kindle</a>.<br />
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“If I’m right, that hardtail on the calico pony is a friend from the other side.” Sarah’s eyes studied the figure. “Other side of what?”<br />Duke hesitated. “The law, Miss Sarah.”<br />“Have you ever been on the other side, Mr. Duke?” she asked carefully.<br />“I reckon some people might care to call it that. It was only a case of gettin’ or being got by a no-account.”<br />***<br />At the instant Duke yelled for Sarah to gain cover, he slipped his saddle and fell flat and hard into the dust, the carbine up and ready. “Drop your iron, Red,” he called. “I got witnesses to prove you threatened me—and I got the drop on you. Now drop your iron!” The crowd around the young gunfighter faded into the sunbaked street and found refuge in buildings and behind wagons. Suddenly there was silence—dead, baking, fly-buzzing silence and the redhead was alone. Duke pulled down on the young man’s head. “I’m giving you a count of three, Red—drop your iron and walk away or I’ll kill you.” A fly landed on Duke’s nose and crawled around leisurely in the sweat-grimed creases of the cow man’s face. “One!” Red did not move. “Two!” Red’s hands began to inch for his gun. Duke did not count three. The young man drew and Duke shot him neatly between the eyes. The bright new pearl-handled Colt had not even cleared leather. Duke got up slowly and walked toward the figure in the dust. Slowly the others began to edge out and walk toward the dead gunfighter. Duke stared at the first of the arrivals. “I shot him in a fair fight. You all saw me try and walk away from him, and then I gave him a chance to drop his gun—”</blockquote>
Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-24969984653048941522017-04-22T09:49:00.000-07:002017-04-22T09:49:24.364-07:00Cycle of the West by John G Neihardt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Earlier <a href="http://sixtriggerfinger.blogspot.com/2017/04/cowboy-poetry.html">I wrote about cowboy poetry</a> as apart of poetry month. This is the second work I wanted to write something about this month.<br />
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As a child John G Neihardt had two loves the Missouri River and the frontier way of life surrounding it and epic poems of the Greeks. He came to believe that the time in American history that expanded west was a Heroic and epic age and should be written about accordingly.<br />
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"The period with which the Cycle deals was one of discovery, exploration and settlement--a genuine epic period , differing in no essential from the other great epic periods that marked the advance of the Indo-European peoples out of Asia and across Europe. It was a time of intense individualism, a time when society was cut loose from its roots, a time when an old culture was being overcome by that of a powerful people driven by the ancient needs and greeds. For this reason only, the word "epic' has been used in connection with the Cycle; it is properly descriptive of the mood and meaning of the time and of the material with which I have worked. There has been no thought of synthetic Iliads and Odysseys, but only of the richly human saga-stuff of a country that I knew and loved, and of a time in the very fringe of which I was a boy."<br />
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Frederick Jackson Turner was a very influential historian. He wrote an essay, "The Frontier in American History", that was the backbone of the so called Frontier Thesis which dominated historical thinking for a long time and is still debated today. Turner believed that the expansion west and the western frontier largely shaped Americans (as a people and a country) and American democracy. He is worth mentioning in any discussion of westerns because of his influence on the non-fiction field of western studies and because clearly Neihardt was influenced by Turner's thinking. (Turner's work is in the public domain and is well worth seeking out)<br />
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John G Neihardt spent 28 years of his life writing five epic songs of poetry that cover the period of time from 1820 - 1890 (the expansion west due to the fur trade to the massacre at Wounded Knee). He did a tremendous amount of original research and spoke to as many people, from as many walks of life as he could, in person, collecting oral histories from Indians, old Indian fighters, farmers, Cavalry men. People that he knew and grew up around.<br />
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The West as Neihardt saw and knew it, fired up his imagination in an original way. The full Cycle of the West won't be for everyone but it is unlike anything else. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks is also worth reading (highly recommended).<br />
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<i><b>John Sessions peered over the edge of his shallow rifle pit to look at the Cheyennes massing. They had the tiny band of army scouts surrounded, and were readying for the kill. </b></i><br />
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Lewis Patten was a prolific western writer. His work was consistently of a higher quality, especially given his prolific nature. He served in the Navy, graduated from the University of Denver, and was a cattle rancher before turning to writing. His first published story, "Too Good With a Gun", appeared in Zane Grey's Western Magazine in 1950. His first novel, <i>Massacre at White River, </i>was published in 1952. Before his death in 1982 of lung cancer he had published over 100 novels in just about every traditional western sub-genre.<br />
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Like a lot of the peak western era writers, and other pulp-era writer, Patten had, and believed in, a strong work ethic, and believed that hard work trumps talent every time.<br />
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Patten's best known work is likely <i>The Death of a Gunfighter </i>which was made into a movie in 1969 starring Richard Widmark (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee">behind the scenes battles resulted in the creation of Alan Smithee</a>). Other movies made from his work include <i>Red Sundown</i> (1956), <i>Don't Turn the Other Cheek</i> (1971).<br />
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His work generally is psychologically dark and more complex, aligning with the growth of the genre at the time, and deals with the darker side of humanity with open eyes in a direct, matter-of-fact style.<br />
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<i>Red Runs the River</i> is, in part, inspired by the Battle of Beecher Island, or at least uses the framework of that battle for the purposes of the story.<br />
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Sessions is a rancher who comes home to find that his family has been murdered, raped, and scalped. He also discovers that a stash of gold that he had hidden in the cellar is gone. The death of his family was made to look like an Indian attack but five pages in he realizes that it wasn't Indians that killed his family. The details just aren't right.<br />
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He tracks the three riders to a town where the Cavalry is signing up men to go fight the Indians. A little bit of leg work tells him that the three men signed up, so he does also. The first engagement with the Indians doesn't go well and the unit of 50 men are trapped on a small island, surrounded. This is the setting for Sessions' to find the men that killed his family, if he can survive.<br />
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The engine of the narrative is powered by conflict happening on multiple levels. Part of it is interior, Sessions is battling his grief and his desire for revenge and, by extension, what will happen after the act of revenge is complete. Externally, Sessions in on a very personal mission where he tracks the three men responsible for killing his family to a Cavalry unit going after a group of Indians. He ties the fate of his mission to the larger mission, and these two missions won't always be compatible. The tension further escalates when the Cavalry unit gets into an impossibly tight situation. Survival and revenge play out against each other, as do taking orders and working within the established military system while trying to conduct non-military business. The level of tension brings about a narrative uncertainty, just not knowing how things are going to play out, that compulsively pulls the reader to the end. <br />
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In a genre filled with lean and mean books <i>Red Runs the River</i> is leaner and meaner than most. At one point, about 60 pages in, I marveled at just how much story had taken place in that span. Regardless of genre, a truly lean and mean narrative is something to behold and can make a reader question his lengthier reading choices (or at least those that aim is undercut by padding). Patten keeps his foot on the gas to get Sessions to the men who killed his family and then trapped on the island. Then he eases off the pedal some to allow Sessions time for his investigation proper to unfold, the reader can use the breather.<br />
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Patten is one of my favorite western writers and his work is mostly out of print. Writing under his own name and other pseudonyms, he worked with 26 publishers (Double Day & Co. being the longest relationship), he was published in both hardcover and paperback, his work was constantly being reissued. You can't overstate how huge the western market was at one time, so there were a lot of books being published. He was an unfortunate casualty of the collapse of the western market.<br />
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For years, in mystery/crime fiction a kind of Auteur Theory has been applied to the pulp era. That from the pulp publishing machine truly great artists can rise above the mass of production with an individual voice. Decades later we reappraise and hold above others certain authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, David Goodis, and Charles Willeford. You can do the same with the western writers, the mass of western books published in that genre's heyday are mostly forgotten and waiting to be re-discovered. For those readers willing to do some sifting and panning there is gold to be found.<br />
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Formulary is a word that gets used a lot in discussion of westerns. And it fits. A lot of the books are a kind of disposable fiction. Which isn't to say unlikable, because they are enjoyable and do have their charms. The best of those were those that were doing something different, deeper, and challenging, and that retained a high level of consistency even though they may have been prolific. Lewis Patten fits that bill.<br />
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<i>This is the first of two posts I have planned for April, to celebrate National Poetry Month.</i><br />
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When I decided to explore the western genre I committed to reading the genre in all of its forms, modes, sub-genres, and types. Which lead me to cowboy poetry (which I assure you is a thing), once I saw this anthology<br />
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Cowboy poetry comes from the oral tradition of Cowboys who, at the end of the day, would tell tales and stories, spin yarns and tall tales, and sing songs as a means of entertainment and communication.<br />
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Cowboy poets assure us that they are taking part in a rich heritage extending back many generations. And I believe they are, partially. I have no doubt that cowboys, in a pre-technology era, had their own oral tradition. But cowboy poetry as a genre seems, to me, to be a part of the romanticizing of the image that came in the 20th century.<br />
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<i>I want to go back where the greasewood grows,</i><i>And the sagebrush smell is rank and sweet;</i><i>Where the desert wind o'er the mesa blows,</i><i>And the buttes and sand-dunes my vision greet.</i><i><br /></i><i>I want to forget the sight and sound</i><i>Of city traffic and city roar,</i><i>And hurry away to my stamping-ground</i><i>In God's great open--the West--once more.</i></blockquote>
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The poems themselves usually follow a traditional structure. And the verses romanticize the life of the cowboy and yearn for a time gone past. They are also overly sentimental. There is also an artifice at play as modern poets try really hard to emulate another, earlier time.<br />
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<i>It is big and wide and roomy, and it's solid, every bit,</i><i>And there's forty pounds o'substance in the makin' up of it;</i><i>It isn't nothin' fancy, cuz it ain't built fer display--</i><i>It is just the cowman's workshop where he spends a busy day.</i></blockquote>
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Cowboy poetry, however, is not without its charms. It listens much better than it reads, which makes sense given its oral tradition roots. In this form it is much more like a performance art piece. Maybe that's the point? Maybe listening to cowboy poetry is the intended way to enjoy it.<br />
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Recommended as a curiosity.<br />
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<a href="http://www.folkstreams.net/film,39">Here is a documentary about cowboy poetry</a> that is worth a look.<br />
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If you are willing to stretch the definitions of cowboy poetry (and I am) than my favorite is "Everything's OK at the OK Corral by famed underground New York poet Bingo Gazingo (which arguably, is more authentic).<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/siyHEZ0FrLw" width="560"></iframe>Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-80240847393775559032017-04-08T14:36:00.000-07:002017-04-08T14:37:45.066-07:00Times Like Dying - western short filmHere's a cool little western short. A simple story, simply told. Definitely worth 20 mins of your time. Jim Cody Williams really shines here.
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<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/170880441">TIMES LIKE DYING | Western Short Film</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/evanvetter">Evan Vetter</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-22033769359734253432017-03-25T05:37:00.000-07:002017-03-25T05:37:03.388-07:00The Rise of the New Western in the 1960s: E.L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://ejas.revues.org/3303">On the New Western</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">In these circumstances, the Western managed to survive by parodying its own formula restrictions and distorting the classic reader’s expectations of the genre. The Western also became part and parcel of the artistic innovations at hand as it was taken up even by traditionally non-Western writers such as Thomas Berger (</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Little Big Man, </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">1964), Ishmael Reed (</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Yellow Back Radio Broke Down,</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> 1968) and E.L. Doctorow, to name a few. These authors turned to the most popular genre of the time with a double mission: to both deconstruct it, and to use it to revive the traditional novel-writing process through the use of Western elements. The traditional novel, like the Western, was commonly regarded to have exhausted itself.</span>Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-1686417879058353422017-03-25T05:32:00.001-07:002017-03-25T05:37:49.580-07:002014 interview with Larry McMurtry<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calluna; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
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Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-39096347564061929572017-03-14T17:14:00.002-07:002017-10-11T06:23:43.621-07:00Gender reversal of classic western images<a href="http://www.upworthy.com/an-artist-replaced-the-men-in-these-classic-westerns-with-women-the-images-are-awesome?g=2&c=ufb1">These are great.</a><br />
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<br />Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-67518515768824535442017-03-14T17:08:00.001-07:002017-03-25T05:37:36.447-07:00No more guns in the valley: Logan director James Mangold on Shane<a href="http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/logan-director-james-mangold-essay-shane/">In 2013 James Mangold introduced a screening of the Shane</a>, a movie that was a big influence on Logan.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); font-family: "roboto slab" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"The best Western films (and this is an example of the very best) are not centered on nostalgia, are not historical in nature (the moment in history when these films took place is largely a manufacture of imagination). The best of these films create a landscape that has evolved into an American mythology, one as resonant and evocative as Religious parables, Japanese Samurai tales and the Greek Gods of Olympus."</span></blockquote>
Brian Lindenmuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519203797661128049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129685756257730447.post-1614180227506592092017-03-10T05:45:00.002-08:002017-03-10T05:45:48.658-08:00The Art of Blood MeridianA sampling of Blood Meridian inspired art.
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