Buddies in the Saddle

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

Sunday, July 27, 2014

What not to say to someone with cancer

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Dawn sky I did not post an entry to this cancer journal last week because another five-day round of chemo had me pretty much flat out ...
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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Glossary of frontier fiction: U-V
(ulster – vug)

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Below is a list of mostly forgotten terms, people, and the occasional song, drawn from a reading of mostly frontier fiction, 1880–1915. ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Hamlin Garland, Main-Travelled Roads (1891)

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First published in 1891, this collection of stories challenges beliefs about life on the frontier that persist in the collective imagina...
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Glossary of frontier fiction: T
(touch a hunchback – tyro)

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Below is a list of mostly forgotten terms, people, and the occasional song, drawn from a reading of mostly frontier fiction, 1880–1915. ...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Rex Beach, The Spoilers (1906)

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As a writer of popular fiction, Rex Beach hit the ground running with this, his first published novel, set in the gold rush days of No...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Audiobooks: westerns online

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The folks over at Librivox have been doing a fine job of picking and recording western novels from the public domain. You can download t...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

No rules

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Morning clouds I keep coming back to one line from the movie of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel Zorba the Greek . Zorba’s you...
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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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