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Kemo Sabe Unmasked

by | Nov 1, 2008 | Western Movies

The most famous movie Ranger helps us recall how the iconic Texas Rangers shaped the Western film genre.
The history of the Texas Rangers is the history of Western movies. When Broncho Billy Anderson told director Edwin S. Porter that he could ride like a Texas Ranger, he won the role of a bandit in Porter’s 12-minute, 1903 silent film The Great Train Robbery. The truth came out though when Anderson barely got on the hor


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