Like many American children of the late 1950s, Alan Rockman spent his childhood in the not-exactly-Old West-town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with the obligatory cowboy suit, a Davy Crockett coonskin cap and a love for TV and movie Western heroes. Rockman’s family moved to Southern California


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