The essence of a great Western, to me, is John Wayne. I think his characters and the stories told, for the most part, convey the myth of the American West. Thanks to True West Magazine, we know what the West was really like. But when I see a John Wayne movie, I see the West the way it should have been. On the Westerns Channel, we receive tons of requests for movies that haven’t been seen in decades, in particular those of Buck Jones and Randolph Scott. But recently, we are hearing from fans


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