Television Westerns crossed the line from adolescents to adults in September 1955, when Gunsmoke, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and Cheyenne all premiered. Cheyenne also made Warner Brothers a serious TV production house and helped to legitimize ABC as a network. The hour-long show starred former Vegas bouncer Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, a 6’6” hunka hunka cowpoke with a Gregory Peck voice who rarely got through an episode without taking off his shirt. Bodie often changed jobs, wh

October 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Cup-Spinning Scene: How Did They Do It?
- The Boys at the Bar
- Rawhide
- Track Of The Cat
- Cheyenne
- The Wild Wild West
- F Troop
- Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
- Spirit Car
- Bitter Wind
- Come Sundown
- Smonk
- The Skinning Knife
- The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880
- When Silver was King: Arizona’s 1880s Silver King Mine
- River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
- Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide
- Charles F. Lummis: Editor of the Southwest
- The Western Godfather
- Stuck to Her Dream