The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was among the first.
Dr. Rennard Strickland found the movie poster for the 1962 John Ford classic, “Together for the First Time—James Stewart. John Wayne,” at the Tulsa Flea Market in Oklahoma some 40 years ago.
“I had been thinking about a PBS script I was going to write about the Old West, and this would help illustrate it,” he recalls.
He paid no more than $10 for the yellow-red-blue poster that was folded up on a
table, but the creases weren’t

July 2017
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
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- The Legendary West
- Phoenix Gets a Name
- Charles Stevens
- Never Wasted a Bullet
- Joseph Lee Heywood, a Northfield Hero
- A Lyrical History of the West
- How Often Were Post Offices Robbed on the Frontier?
- Get a Grip, Cowboy
- What History Has Taught Me: Bob Love
- Frontier Reveille
- Johnny Lingo: In the Land of Pronunciation Legend Rules
Departments
- Mollie’s Miracle
- Magic City of the Plains
- Just How Good Were the Good Old Days?
- Western Events For July 2017
- Trapped!
- She’s So Money
- Mark Twain’s Vittles and Viands
- Who Established the First Commercial Brewery in the Early West?
- Was “Wild Bill” Hickok’s Failing Eyesight the Result of a Venereal Disease?
- Were Bounty Hunters as Despised as Most Westerns Depict?
- And the War Begins
- Texas Captains of Cotton and Cattle