Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Tom Mix, The Miracle Rider (1935)

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One of the earliest on-screen appearances of Tom Mix (1880-1940) was as himself in the 1910 western documentary Ranch Life in...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

As if

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Desert walk After posting last week’s journal entry here, I wondered whether I had not gone off the deep end, having read too much of ...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

D. W. Griffith, The Lonedale Operator (1911)

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D. W. Griffith, c1925 The directing career of D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) began with Thomas Edison’s company Biograph, where he made ...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Does God like jazz?

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Morning clouds Questions like this one are what make Mystery interesting as a subject of speculation and contemplation. It came...
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Willard Wyman, Blue Heaven

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Can’t say how many times I have anticipated the opening of a review with the words, “This is really an unusual book.” For all the predic...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

William Kittredge, ed., The Portable Western Reader (1997)

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Editor William Kittredge has done a remarkable job of bringing together this great collection of Western writers representing a vast swa...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

Broncho Billy and the School Mistress (1912)

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Broncho Billy Anderson Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson (1880-1971) was the first great cowboy star.  A vaudeville actor in New Yor...
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