Regarding the July 2013 Opening Shot of Pat Garrett and crew sitting on the dock: This building is new, the corners of the adobe have not rounded off with time, they’re crisp. The sign is not faded. Judging from the shadows, the picture was taken in the later afternoon. It was in the early fall, and crisp. Garrett is wearing a heavy coat that he brought with him, telling me when he left home, he knew the days got cool in the evenings. The leaves on the small tree are full; it had bloomed al

September 2013
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- Rough Drafts 9/13
- What did U.S. lawmen think of the North West Mounted Police?
- When a famous gunfighter came to town, would most folks have recognized him?
- How did Hollywood create those resonant gunshot sounds in 1940s and 1950s B-Westerns?
- Western Horizons
- Opening Shot Dissected…
- The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
- The Pies Have It
- Butter Me Up
- Long Road Home for Buffalo Bill Indian
- Who is Alice Paul?
- The Edge of Perfection
- The Final Camel Charge
- Jack Swilling
- Lights, Camera, Miracle?
- Great Movie (and TV) Hats
- The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
- A Ride on the Wild Side
- Frontier Cavalry Trooper
- Dirty Words in Deadwood
- Skull in the Ashes
- Night Riders in the Tallgrass
- Max Evans’s Favorite Nature Reads
- On the Trail of Solomon Butcher
- Queen of the Cowtowns
- September 2013 Events