Author: Robert Nott Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476613729 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Yet these three actors played a crucial role in the changing environment of the post-World War II Western, and, in the process, made many excellent middle-budget films that are still a pleasure to watch. This account of these three Western stars' careers begins in 1946, when Scott and McCrea committed themselves to the Western roles they would play for nearly twenty years. Murphy, who also joined them in 1946, would continue his Western career for a few years after his cohorts rode into the film sunset. Arranged chronologically, and balanced among the three actors, the text concludes with Audie Murphy's last Western in 1967. Covering both the personal and professional lives of these three Hollywood cowboys, the book provides both their stories and the story of a Hollywood whose attitude toward the Western was in a time of transition and transformation. The text is complemented by 60 photographs and a filmography for each of the three.
Author: William W. Savage Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806119205 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Analyzes the modern myth of the cowboy as it appears in movies, advertising, the rodeo, and fiction, and gauges its effect on American thought
Author: Barbara McMahon Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 1472079019 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
Book Description
This cowboy wants only one thing... Holly Bennett hadn' t listened to her father, and his words came back to haunt her when the boy she idolized got her pregnant and left town. A decade has dulled the pain–until the cowboy who broke her heart moves in next door....
Author: Peter Golenbock Publisher: Grand Central Pub ISBN: 9780446519502 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 838
Book Description
Many legendary players and coaches, including Roger Staubach, Tom Landry, Pete Gent, and Bob Hayes, share the story of this famous football team, which has won five Super Bowls and more games than any other team in NFL history.
Author: Georgina Gentry Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9780758213013 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Three tall, ruggedly handsome cowboys lasso the love of three very spirited ladies in this collection of romances that includes Lorraine Heath's "The Reluctant Hero," in which a novelist who will do anything for a story sets her sights on sexy Sheriff Matthew Knight. Original.
Author: Jane Kramer Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1446477053 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
'The West that Henry mourned belonged to the Western movie, where the land and the cattle went to their proper guardians and brought a fortune in respect and power. It was a West where the best cowboy got to shoot the meanest outlaw, woo the prettiest schoolteacher, bed her briefly to produce sons, and then ignore her for the finer company of other cowboys - a West as sentimental and as brutal as the people who made a virtue of that curious combination of qualities and called it the American experience. ' From the Introduction Henry Blanton is the 'last cowboy' of Jane Kramer's classic portrait, the failed hero of his own mythology, the man who ends an era for himself. His story - his flawed, funny, and in the end tragic efforts to be a proper cowboy, 'expressin' right' in a world where the range is a feed yard and college boys run ranches from air-conditioned Buicks -is the story of a country coming of age in great promise and greater disappointment. A hundred and fifty miles up the highway from agri-business Amarillo, Henry claimed the extravagant prerogatives of a free man on a horse. He rode his own frontier, decked out in his vigilance and his honour, until the shocking moment when in the person of Henry Blanton the West and the Western had a showdown.
Author: Jan Herrman Publisher: ISBN: 9781951744861 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
As the romanticized period of the American "wild" West wound down, most cowboys rode off into the sunset. Hank Miller must follow a different path. In The Last Cowboy, he survives the Civil War, Texas-sized desperados, and the great San Francisco earthquake. With a debt to pay, Hank will place himself and his twin sons in great danger in a new, wild and untamed frontier-Morocco! This is a sweeping tale of a reluctant hero of the West. It is also a story of romance and international adventure, stretching from west Texas to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, London, Tangier and the Moroccan Rif. The novel spans an equally expansive time frame: 1860 to 1912. The backdrop is the American frontier with all its enduring myths and troubling realities. Ultimately, his heroism earns Hank unexpected wealth, friends on three continents, and the love of an extraordinary woman. Now ensconced in a mansion in the most exclusive neighborhood of San Francisco, Hank has a beautiful wife and three remarkable children. He wants nothing more than to enjoy them all and the highly successful international tour business he and Beth now operate. But a last, perilous mission awaits. Hank has a debt to pay and a friend to rescue in a far off land.
Author: Donna Grant Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks ISBN: 1250165423 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
New York Times-bestselling author Grant returns to Texas, where a small-town legend comes home for the holidays and finds the greatest gift of all. Original.
Author: Robert Nott
Author: Charles E. Bright
Author: William W. Savage
Author: Barbara McMahon
Author: Barbara McMahon
Author: Peter Golenbock
Author: Georgina Gentry
Author: Jane Kramer
Author: Jan Herrman
Author: Donna Grant