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Steer the rattling wagons into a tight circle! Protect the women and children! Draw your six-shooters as whooping Indians on painted war ponies streak over the rise of a hill! Look sharp, Tonto! This isn’t just a tired western stereotype, it’s a Silver-Screen Western Hero Equation! c. 2011 es cowboylands In reel life: Earnest pioneers moving to promised . . . → Read More: Circle the Wagons!; or, More Advice from a Besieged Writer  A mighty happy (um, late) birthday to Max Brand! He never thought much of his westerns between May 29, 1892 and May 12, 1944, but I can’t hold that against him for too long. If you had been named Frederick Schiller Faust, you might have wanted to be a high-falutin’ poet too. Unlike many pulp western writers, . . . → Read More: Sagas of Fighting Men and Flaming Guns; Max Brand’s Words Move Me  Leave a comment  Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, On This Day in Western History, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, The Good the Bad the Fugly  frederick schiller faust, max brand, paperback art, paperback covers, paperback westerns, pulp westerns, western fiction On January 4, 1847, Samuel Colt sold his first revolver to the United States government, allowing buckskinned frontiersmen and uniformed soldiers everywhere to sheathe their Bowie knives and mail their powder-and-ball kits to their poorer relations. When Samuel Colt, cigar clamped manfully between his teeth, shook hands on the deal for one thousand .44-caliber revolvers to be . . . → Read More: Colt’s .44; or Western History Triggers Countdown 6 comments Buckaroo Gear, Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, On This Day in Western History, State of the Union 2010, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Western World Events Colt .44, colt in westerns, colt invention, cowboy cliches, cowboy facts, gun that won the west, guns in westerns, Samuel Colt In honor of National Punctuation Day, a day revered by comma geeks everywhere, I hereby give formal thanks herewith, in perpetuity, without exception, to the heretofore unjustly ignored stylistic convention, long forgotten and usually misunderstood, and not to be confused by the subtitle, which in itself is of great worthiness to nonfiction writers, as it allows, . . . → Read More: National Punctuation Day; or Gratuitous Steve McQueen Pic Billy the Kid pardoned???? Say it isn’t so. He wouldn’t be the archetypal 1880s bad-boy outlaw anymore–that sexy beast who wants to be tamed, played by handsome hunks in 46 (no lie) silver-screen westerns.
If he is pardoned by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, it would be a.) justice finally given to the young man who . . . → Read More: Pardon Me?; or, Clemency for Billy the Kid, 129 Years Later 2 comments Cowboy Mythos, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Movie Quotes, On This Day in Western History, State of the Union 2010, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Western World Events american west, billy the kid, billy the kid pardon, brushy bill roberts, clemency billy the kid, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, new mexico, wild west, willaim bonney Back in the late 1800s, she was hawtness personified–Annie Oakley, sharpshooting superstar, a favorite of Buffalo Bill, Chief Sitting Bull, and European royalty. She was the idol of American youth. No, she wasn’t a cussin’, mannish, cross-dressing kind of gal. She was a typical late-1800s lady, decked out in heavy skirts and petticoats and awesomely cute . . . → Read More: Happy Birthday to Real-Life Cowgirl Hero Annie Oakley Leave a comment Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, On This Day in Western History, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Western World Events annie oakley, annie oakley birthday, buffalo bill, buffalo bill's wild west show, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, cowgirl, frank butler, pulp illustrators, reach for the skies, sharpshooting women, wild west, women in old west The Roy Rogers Museum in Branson, MO, closed = bummer. Reason #1 I love the movie cowboy so much don’t massacre a tribe’s women and children in surprise attacks unless they go through deep soul questioning and soul searching (which they should, goddammit) don’t shoot up a town like thugs unless it’s for comic effect don’t get . . . → Read More: Or Not So Happy Day of the American Cowboy And WHY isn’t this date on calendars everywhere? Oh right. You don’t . . . → Read More: Happy National Day of the American Cowboy! The story is a cliche, but the way the media is frothing about it, you’d think we’re back in the golden age of westerns. Leave a comment Cowboy Moments, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, On This Day in Western History, Origins and Originals, State of the Union 2010, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Western World Events, What Would Gary Cooper Do?, Wild Western Web classic western plots, naked cowboy, naked cowboy 4ever, naked cowboy trademark, naked cowgirl, rustlers, times square naked cowboy, western plots |
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