Buddies in the Saddle
The frontier West in history, myth, film, and popular fiction
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Saturday music, Brenda Lee
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Brenda Mae Tarpley, born 1944, Atlanta, Georgia. First big hit, "Jambalaya" in 1956, at the age of 11. "I'm Sorry...
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Robert Dunn,
The Youngest World: A Novel of the Frontier
(1914)
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There are long novels, and then there are monumental novels. This one falls in the latter category. It is not one but as many as four s...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Old West glossary, no. 61
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Montana cowboys, c1910 Here’s another set of terms and forgotten people gleaned from early western fiction. Definitions were di...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Albuquerque
(1948)
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A western is like watching a chess game. It’s black vs. white, the board is the western landscape, and you know all the pieces...
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Tom Rizzo,
Last Stand at Bitter Creek
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Review and interview Tom Rizzo has taken three unsolved mysteries from the 1860s and woven them into a story of espionag...
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Saturday music, Patsy Cline
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Virginia Patterson Hensley, born Winchester, Virginia, 1932. "I Fall to Pieces" released in 1961. Coming up: Tom Rizzo, Last ...
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Gertrude Atherton,
Perch of the Devil
(1914)
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A New York Times reviewer called this novel “crude, shrill, unscrupulous, splendid,” which no doubt pleased its author. Atherto...
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