George Roy Hill’s take on the story of the Wild Bunch was a stunning success, a $100 million crowd pleaser that was snubbed by the critics and some Western fans who maybe thought it had an excess of twinkle or resented the jaunty Bacharach-David musical interlude. It probably didn’t help that Butch & Sundance was up against Sam Peckinpah’s apocalyptic vision of the same gang with his film The Wild Bunch (1969), released the same year. Actually, Peckinpah and Hill’s films are not s

September 2006
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition
- John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection
- Larry McMurtry’s Creations
- Remington Schuyler’s West
- The Price of Pride
- The Rebel: Johnny Yuma
- The Saddlemaker’s Wife
- Stone Song
- History May be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
- The Day Coffeyville Bled
- Honest Horses
- The Texas Sheriff
- Making Home Work
- San Juan Bonanza
- An Outlaw’s Poet
- Island of Rotting Horses, 1868
More In This Issue
- I once read a book that stated about 400 deaths in the Old West were due to gunfights. Is this figure correct?
- Pendleton, Oregon
- Gold Rush Sale for Art Collectors
- Preservation: Call to Arms
- Art Trumps History Every Time
- Old Cowtown Museum
- Matriarch of the “Nudie Suit”
- Blazing the Mullan Road
- Doomed to Be an Artist
- Not Just a Dude’s Market Anymore
- Where the Buffalo Roam
- When were numbers and letters put on playing cards?
- What rodeo really holds the claim as the “World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo?”
- A huge debate I have with my pards is whether or not Hickok used a sash as a gunbelt. Will you settle this for us?
- Limiting ourselves to the American West and to the 1800s, what was the longest distance a herd was moved?
- Oftentimes, when older Westerns depict wagons or stagecoaches, only one set of wheel tracks are shown. Why is that?
- John Wayne and the Peacemaker
- Cassidy Country’s Cool
- Lawdogs Go South Henry Newton Brown’s Gang vs Medicine Lodge Cowboys