F Troop was a cavalry comedy that lasted two seasons, 1965-67, and burrowed into the pop cultural cache of a generation who likened it to the similarly sappy Hogan’s Heroes and McHale’s Navy. It starred Forrest Tucker, who hailed back as far as The Westerner (1940), and Larry Storch, the original Joe Pesci. The First Season box set, with 34 episodes and no extras, offers seasoned shtick by pros such as Edward Everett Horton, Don Rickles and the late great Jack Elam as Sam Urp, the “fast

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