Duke’s company Batjac produced Track of the Cat (1954), which has been unavailable as a DVD until now. Like The High and the Mighty (1954), which was a big success for Wayne, the picture was directed by William Wellman, who had adapted Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s The Ox-Bow Incident 10 years earlier. Robert Mitchum stars as an acerbic rancher on the trail of a murderous “black painter,” while his snowbound family plays out their turgid drama like disenfranchised characters from a scutt

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