Buddies in the Saddle

The frontier West in history, myth, film, and popular fiction

Sunday, April 26, 2015

The Cowboy Rides Away

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by David Cranmer Photo taken by Ron Scheer, March 2011. On April 11, 2015, Ron Scheer passed away after a long battle with cancer. L...
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Fathers and sons

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New haircut Oliver Sacks revealed in a New York Times essay recently that he is dying of liver cancer and that he plans to devote the ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Luke Allan, Blue Peter: “Half-Breed” (1921)

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Métis fur trader, 1870 Blue Pete, a Métis cattle rustler who leaves a gang of horse and cattle thieves to work as an informant for the...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Meds again

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I feel like Hunter Thompson in the opening pages of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas –waiting for the drugs to kick in. I look at the pil...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Nik Morton, Spanish Eye

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I know Nik Morton more as a writer of westerns. His Bullets For a Ballot was reviewed here a while ago . Spanish Eye is something else....
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Knickers and twists

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DMV Today’s post may be short. We have guests coming to celebrate a friend’s becoming recently a U.S. citizen. Fortunately, my wife ha...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Guy Vanderhaeghe, A Good Man

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I wanted to like this novel more than I did. For its length (464 pages), it promises somewhat more than it delivers. I had the same reac...
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Farm-raised in the Platte River valley of central Nebraska. Settled in Southern California. Near compulsive reader and film lover. Follow me on Twitter @rdscheer
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