Movie Westerns Books & DVDs

COWBOY BOOTS BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by Geraktv. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us the name you want on the bookplate. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. 2.5" H x 3.50" W. Content: Brown cowboy books with spurs highlight this "weathered" orange-brown background - you can also see a Stetson and a cow skull - all of which represent the American Old West. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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ALL THE PRETTY HORSES & GERONIMO: An American Legend (Double Feature DVD)
Columbia Pictures. Cast photos front and back of box. Condition: NEW (shink-wrapped) Columbia Pictures box containing individually wrapped DVDs. Content: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: A Young Texan drifter embarks on an illicit and dangerous affair with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy Mexican landowner. Directed by Billy Bob Thornton, the movie stars Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Ruben Blades, Robert Patrick, Bruce Dern, Lucas Black, & Henry Thomas. CERONIMO: An American Legend: Tired of the U.S. Government's broken promises, the great Apache chief Geronimo akes to the warpath to reclaim his people's land and honor. Directed by Walter Hill, the movie stars Wes Studi, Rodney A. Grant, Jason patric, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, and Matt Damon. Excellent! [2 copies available]
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THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West
by William H. Leckie. B&W era photos and maps illustrate. Condition: NEW c. 1985 Univ o f Oklahoma trade paperback, 14th printing. Content: Reviewer: "Leckie's Buffalo Soldiers proves to be a well written and well researched book on the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments which were stationed mostly in the southwest section of the United States from Texas to Arizona. Both regiments were manned by black soldiers although officered by whites. Long forgotten by history, the book reflects on the valuable services these black soldiers contributed to the creation of our nation in that region. The book, I thought did a great justice in retelling this story that Americans in general have forgotten. The book traces the history of these "buffalo soldiers" (as coined by the Indians for black soldiers' woolly hair) between 1866 to 1891. The book covers all the military activities of these two regiments and provides insights to the campaigns and battles they fought. The book also reflects in part, the near unending forces of prejudice these buffalo soldiers had to put up with from the rest of the army and its civilian overlords. As far as I can see, this remains one of the few books that gives a definitive accounts of the buffalo soldiers during this period. Only real weakness I see in this book was that it didn't give great details into the lives and insights to these black soldiers who fought so well. But the book is still worth reading if not for anything, to see how well men fights, if well led and well trained, against the prejudices of their own nation and against cunning and powerful Indian foes who ironically, was fighting for what these black men were fighting for, respects and equality. I will end this review with an ironic quote from the movie, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, "Men in dirty-shirt blue, only a page in history books to mark their lives. But wherever they rode, whatever they fought for, that place became the United States". Thus lies the legacy of the buffalo soldiers." The wonderful 1997 TV movie (I'm sure this book was a reference for the producers) was directed by Charles Haid and starred Danny Glover, Carl Lumbly, Mykelti Williamson, Timothy Busfield, Michael Warren, and Glynn Turman. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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BUTCH AND SUNDANCE: The Early Days (Movie Novelization)
by D. R. Bensen. Based on screenplay by Allan Burns. Movie front cover. Berenger & Katt back cover. Condition: Gently pre-read 1979 Dell paperback, first printing. Light edge wear with pale spine crease and pale tanning to page edges. Better than it sounds. Content: A "prequel" of sorts to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the Newman/Redford movie. And very funny. The 1979 made-for-TV movie was directed by Richard Lester and starred the great Tom Berenger, William Katt (always underrated), John Schuck, Peter Weller, Brian Dennehy, Christopher Lloyd, Jill Eikenberry, and Noble Willingham. Great fun! [1 copy available]
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BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (The Screenplay)
by William Goldman. Sepia-tone "on-location" photos illustrate. Condition: Good+ 1969 Bantam papaerback, first printing. Small edgewear with pale spine crease. Interior clean & tight with tanning to page edges. Content: This is the screenplay of the wonderful movie about the legendary Hole In The Wall Gang and Butch & Sundance. The 1969 movie was directed by George Roy Hill and starred Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katherine Ross. Like most of John Wayne's Westerns, this movie has never lost its popularity. A must-see Western. [1 copy available]
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CIMARRON
by Edna Ferber. Condition: UNREAD 1963 Bantam paperback, 13th printing. Light edge wear with shelf wear hinge crease. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to pages. Content: Cimarron is packed with unforgettable characters, here is the exciting story of the Cravats - Yancey, flamboyant and footloose, dreamer of great dreams; Sabra, his brave and lovely bride; their son Cimarron - wild as his father, handsome as his mother - and Cim's beloved Osage Indian princess, Ruby. It is the story of the opening of the Oklahoma Territory and the great landrush of the Sooners. The 1930 movie won the Academy Award for best picture and was directed by Wesley Ruggles and starred Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, George E. Stone and Edna Mae Oliver. The 1960 film is my favorite - directed by Anthony Mann, starring the great Glenn Ford with Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge, Vic Morrow, Charles McGraw, Harry Morgan, David Opatoshu, and Mary Wickes. There is another version due out in 2010. [1 copy available]
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CONAGHER
by Louis L'Amour. Condition: UNREAD 1982 Bantam paperback, 22nd printing (c. early 1990s). Content: In this classic L’Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life - and together they would have the courage to make a stand. The 1991 movie (made for TNT, I believe) starred husband and wife team, Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross, Billy Green Bush, Ken Curtis, and Barry Corbin. [1 copy available]
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THE COWBOYS (John Wayne DVD)
by Warner Brothers. Movie stills both covers. Condition: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 1998 Warner Brothers DVD release of the 1971 film. Remainder. Content: Notorious as the first John Wayne film that does the unthinkable--subject Wayne's character to a nasty fate after only a short time A veteren rancher risks everything when he recruits schoolboys to man a dangerous cattle drive. One of John Wayne's solid twilight hits. The movie was directed by Mark Rydell and starred, in addition to Wayne, A. Martinez, Robert Carradine, Roscoe Lee Browne, Colleen Dewhurst, and Bruce Dern. Includes a "making of" documentary "The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men." [2 copies available]
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GOIN' SOUTH (Movie Novelization)
by Madeleine Shaner. Color movie stills front and back covers. Condition: Good only, 1978 Jove paperback, first printing. Spine crease and moderate edgewear and tanning to interior page edges. Not a collectible, but very readable. Content: Nicholson directed and starred in this Western spoof about an outlaw who is saved from hanging by a young widow (Mary Steenburgen) who puts him to work as an indentured servant. She has a gold mine that no one knows about and she wants him to help her get the gold before anyone else finds out. But, of course, his old gang--who gave him up to the law in the first place--finds out about the mine and wants a piece of it. The cast includes Steenburgen in her first movie role and John Belushi in a tiny part as a member of the gang, also making his film debut, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, and Ed Begley Jr. [1 copy available]
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THE GOOD OLD BOYS (TV Miniseries)
by Elmer Kelton. Darrell Sweet cover art. Condition: NEW 1999 TOR paperback edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land and they way of life that he loves are changing too quickly. Land is being parceled out and barbed-wire fences are springing up all over. Cars and other machines are invading - stinking up the air and threatening to replace horse travel. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is gone, that a man can't live a life whose time has passed and that every choice he makes - even those that lead to happiness - requires sacrifice. The 1995 TV miniseries, true to the book, was directed by and starred Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, Matt Damon, Sam Shepherd, the great Bruce McGill, Frances McDormand, and Wilfred Brimley. A cameo performance by Larry Mahan, one of the greatest rodeo cowboys ever, adds some wonderful spice and authenticity. If you can find a copy, grab it. [1 copy available]
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A GUNFIGHT (Movie novelization)
by Phillip Rock. Based on the screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom. Cash-Douglas covers. 16 page B&W movie stills section. Condition: Good only, 1971 Bantam paperback, first printing. Top front cover corner clipped. Spine crease with moderate tanning to page edges. Content: They were friends. All either of them wanted was a chance to get along without a gun. . . but the town was greedy for a fight and there was big money to be made in pitting Will Tenneray against Abe Cross. What was the percentage in scraping along, trying to make a buck, when you could do the thing you were best at - gunfighting - and make it count for everything, all in one inevitable terrible blast away second? If you were faster, you'd be rich. If not . . . but these were the odds. You couldn't let it matter that the other guy was your friend. The 1971 movie was directed by Lamont Johnson and billed as a "Jicarilla Apache Tribe presentation." The movie starred Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black, Keith Carradine, Eric Douglas, Dana Elcar, and Raf Vallone. A Western jewel! [1 copy available]
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THE KENTUCKIAN (DVD)
by MGM. Movie stills both covers. Western Legends series. Introducing Walter Matthau. Condition: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 2001 MGM DVD release of the 1955 movie. Movie stills both covers. 1 hour, 44 minutes. Content: Burt Lancaster makes his directorial debut with this superb, action-packed western. Featuring a poignant, unconventional screenplay by A.B. Guthrie, Jr., and a powerful performance by legendary actor Walter Matthau in his first screen role, The Kentuckian is an unforgettable western adventure of the highest caliber. Big Eli Wakefield (Lancaster) and his youngson, Little Eli (Donald MacDonald), are rugged Kentucky adventurers who long for an exciting life on the Texas frontier. They soon learn, however, that the greatest challenge to their progress lies not in the uncharted wilderness but in the people they meet along the way. Thrust into the midst of abitter family feud, Eli confronts both the deadly rage of a madman (Matthau) and the love of a beautiful woman (Diana Lynn). But when he's lured into a brutal final showdown, Eli discovers that the only way to escape with his life is to stay true to his convictions, his honor and his dream. [1 copy available]
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LAST OF THE BAD MEN (The True Story of Tom Horn)
by Jay Monaghan. B&W photo section. Condition: Good only, pre-read 1974 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Cover shows diagonal creases bottom and top corners with light edge wear. Tanning to pages. Clean & tight. Content: Horn rode out from the black border state of Missouri and set his face towards the stark, bloody plains. As an Indian scout he helped capture Geronimo. Later he worked on the side of the law as a Pinkerton agent and U.S. Marshal. Soon he was riding the ranges of Colorado and Wyoming with the dreaded cattle barons: "an exterminatin' son-of-a-bitch" who drygulched and ambushed small ranchers - men, women and children. Until suddenly there was one death too many, and all the money in the world could not save Tom Horn. The 1980 movie was directed by William Wiard and starred Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farmsworth, Slim Pickens, Geoffrey Lewis, and Billy Green Bush. Don't miss it! [1 copy available]
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THE MAN CALLED NOON (2 for 1 book & VHS movie)
by Louis L'Amour. Blossom cover art. Condition: UNREAD 1985 Bantam paperback reprint. The VHS is a gently pre-viewed tape with tiny edgewear to box edges. Guaranteed. Content: In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his past. Now he was up and running for his life--into a tangle of lies and deceit. His memory lost, the man had only a name and a few clues. Where did his skill with a gun come from? What was the link between his past life and half a million dollars' worth of buried gold? He didn't have the answers, but he needed them soon. Because what he still didn't know about himself, others did--including the men who wanted him dead. The disclaimer on the VHS box states "Based on the L'Amour best seller." I have not seen this movie so, I'm not sure what that means. The 1972 movie was direted by Peter Collinson and starred Richarad Crenna, Stephen Boyd, and Farley Granger. Questions encouraged. [1 copy available]
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NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW: October 1986
by The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. B&W photos & drawings. Condition: UNREAD NMHR Trade Paperbck, October, 1986 (Vol 61, NO. 4). Content: What makes this a "Western Movie" book is the discussion of Audie Murphy's career in Westerns - a part of his life that has been mostly ignored. Articles: Spanish Heritage and Ethnic Protest in New Mexico: The Anti-Fraternity Bill of 1933 (Philip Gonzales); TKO in Las Vegas: Boosterism and the Johnson-Flynn Fight (David Kammer; Charles Blumner: Pioneer, Civil Servant, Merchant (Thomas Jaehn); The Kid From Texas: The Movie Heroism of Audie Murphy (John Lenihan); Sixty Years of the New Mexico Historical Review (Nancy Brown); Book Reviews, etc. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PALE RIDER (Movie Novelization)
by Alan Dean Foster. Based on screenplay by Michael Butler & Dennis Shryack. Clint Eastwood movie cover.B&W movie stills photo section. Condition: Gently pre-read, IF at all, 1985 Warner Books paperback, first printing. Pale spine crease but the book is very clean & tight. Tanning to page edges. Content: One of the great Eastwood enigmatic Westerns. A nameless stranger rides into the corrupt and explosive gold rush town of Lahood, California. His arrival coincides with the prayer of a young girl who is hoping for a miracle to end the sudden and random violence in the community. The miners are besieged by a neighboring landowner intent on stealing their claims. A preacher rides into camp and uses all of his powers of persuasion to convince the landowner to give up his attacks on the miners. The 1985 movie was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood. Also in the cast: the great, under appreciated Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard A. Dysart, Richard Kiel, Sydney Penny (Megan), and John Russell. [1 copy available]
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PALE RIDER (Movie Novelization)
by Alan Dean Foster. Based on screenplay by Michael Butler & Dennis Shryack. Clint Eastwood movie cover.B&W movie stills photo section. Condition: Good only, 1985 Warner Books paperback, first printing. Peeling bottom spine with small edgewear, hinge & spine crease. Interior clean. Content: One of the great Eastwood enigmatic Westerns. A nameless stranger rides into the corrupt and explosive gold rush town of Lahood, California. His arrival coincides with the prayer of a young girl who is hoping for a miracle to end the sudden and random violence in the community. The miners are besieged by a neighboring landowner intent on stealing their claims. A preacher rides into camp and uses all of his powers of persuasion to convince the landowner to give up his attacks on the miners. The 1985 movie was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood. Also in the cast: the great, under appreciated Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard A. Dysart, Richard Kiel, Sydney Penny (Megan), and John Russell. [1 copy available]
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THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (TV Movie Edition)
by Louis L'Amour. Sam Elliott cover. Condition: Good only, c. 1987 Bantam paperback edition, 27th printing. Edge wear with very slight roll. Light tanning to page edges. Content: Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding a family of greenhorns across the prairie -- fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other! The 1987 HBO movie was directed by Robert Day and starred Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, and Kenny Morrison. [1 copy available]
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ROOSTER COGBURN
by Martin Julien. Foreword by Hal Wallis. Hepburn/Wayne cover. B&W movie stills section. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1975 Signet paperback, first printing. Pale hinge crease with edge wear and small chip top cover edge. Light tanning to page edges. Content: A small village in the Indian Nation that is run by a Minister Goodnight and his daughter Eula is overrun by a band of drunken thugs. They kill and rape the people of the village. Miss Goodnight then teams up with the ruthless Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn who goes after them and bring them to justice. The 1975 movie was directed by Stuart Millar and starred, of course, John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn, and co-starred Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire, Lane Smith, and Strother Martin. [1 copy available]
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THE SHADOW RIDERS
by Louis L'Amour. Sellek, Elliott, & Osterhage cover art. Condition: UNREAD 1982 Bantam paperback, first printing. Light edgewear bottom cover edge with light to moderate taning to page edges. Content: Dal and Mac Traven fought on opposite sides of the Civil War but rode home together to start rebuilding the family ranch. Instead, they discovered the chilling aftermath of a guerrilla rampage of terror. It was said no force in Texas could stop these raiders one their bloody path to Mexico. But now the raiders had the Travens' sister and Dal's girlfriend, Kate Connery, held captive. Now they had the Travens on their trail and even though it would be just Mac and Dal and their brother Jesse and Uncle Jack against thirty killers, the Travens would keep on coming. IMHO, one of the best made-for-TV Westerns. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, Katharine Ross, Geoffrey Lewis, Gene Evans, and the great Ben Johnson. [1 copy available]
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THE STORY OF ROY BEAN: Law West of the Pecos (Pre-Movie Edition)
by C. L. Sonnichsen. B&W era photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1972 Fawcett Gold Medal paperback, June printing. very light shelf wear. moderate tanning to page edges. Content: This is certainly one, if not THE one, source of the 1972 movie about the loves, life, obsessions, and law of Judge Roy Bean of Texas. The 1972 movie (The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean) was directed by John Huston and starred Paul Newman, Richard Farnsworth, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Tab Hunter, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowell, Anthony Zerbe, Jacqueline Bisset, Ava Gardner (as Lily Langtry)m and John Huston as Grizzly Adams. In short, half of Hollywood was in this movie! Very interesting. [1 copy available]
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TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE (Movie edition)
by Harry Lawton. Robert Blake (Willie Boy) movie cover. B&W decorations. Condition: Good +, 1970 Award Books paperback, second printing. Edgewear with pale hinge crease. Interior is clean & tight but tanning. Content: Based on a true story. Willie Boy is a Paiute Indian who is the object of a manhunt ( for killing his girlfriend's father in self defense) which is sensationalized by the press because of its concurrence with a visit by President Taft. The sheriff is pressured into hunting down the Indian and the girl he loves but whose father has forbidden the match. It's a good solid early-1900s Western with much better-than-average acting. But it's not so much an action film as it is a character study. he 1969 movie was directed by Abraham Polonsky and starred Robert Blake (a great actor no matter what else one may think), Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan, Ned Romero, Charles McGraw, and Garry Walberg. A great Western movie! [1 copy available]
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THE TRAIN ROBBERS (John Wayne DVD)
by Warner Brothers. Movie stills both covers. Condition: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 2007 Warner Brothers DVD release of the 1973 film. Content: Reviewer: This is a late film of the Duke's, but it is still an entertaining film. Directed by Burt Kennedy, the story follows a widow who hires Wayne to escort her to a cache of hidden gold that belongs to her recently deceased husband. Joining Wayne are a couple of old friends who come along. There are not any identifiable bad guys except for a nameless group of gunman making their own go at the gold. What carries the movie is the excellent cast in support of John Wayne. Joining him are Ann Margaret as the widow Mrs. Lowe, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, and even Ricardo Montalban in a small but funny role. Taylor and Johnson are great together as Grady and Jesse, two old friends of Wayne's Lane. There's a history among the three characters which provides plenty of laughs throughout the movie. Also riding with Lane and Co. are Christopher George in a good supporting part as Calhoun, Bobby Vinton, and Jerry Gatlin. And be sure to stick around till the end for Montalban's revelation at the end. You won't be disappointed!" [1 copy available]
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THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
by B. Traven. Condition: UNREAD 1999 Hill & Wang Trade Paperback, 19th printing. Perhaps pale tanning to page edges - a bit hard to tell for sure. Content: One of the most popular novels ever written which gave us one of the most popular movies ever released. Everyone knows the story and the movie so I won't bore you with needless descriptions. The 1948 movie was directed by John Huston and starred Humphrey Bogart, the great Tim Holt, Walter Huston (Academy Award) and an iconic Mexican actor whose name I don't know - "We don't need no stinking badges." Read it; see it. [1 copy available]
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TRUE GRIT
by Charles Portis. B&W movie stills inside front & back covers. Condition: Very good 1969 Signet Paperback, 4th printing (movie edition). Spine crease & small edgewear, interior clean & tight with small scrape inside cover. Content: A great story of a young woman in the Old West - but then everyone knows this story, so I won't bore you with a description. [1 copy available]
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WAGONMASTER (RKO Classic Screenplays)
screenplay by Frank Nugent and Patrick Ford. Directed by the legendary John Ford. 3 B&W movie stills sections. Condition: UNREAD c. 1978 - 80 Frederick Unger Publishing Trade Paperback, no edition given. Content: This is the complete 1950 screenplay for John Ford's favorite film (or so he said once), Wagonmaster. A Mormon wagon train makes an epic journey to the Promised Land in the West. They face the trials of parching deserts, marauding Indians and low-down desperados, and Ford paints an unforgettable image of the American pioneer spirit in action. One of the finest Westerns of the Silver Screen era! The movie starred the great Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, and Charles Kemper. [1 copy available]
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THE WAR WAGON
by Clair Huffaker. John Wayne & Kirk Douglas cover. Condition: Gently pre-read, IF at all, c. 1967 Fawcett Gold paperback, no printing given. Edge wear with moderate to dark tanning to page edges. Pale diagonal crease top front cover corner. Content: Reviewer: "Originally published as "Badman," The War Wagon is a good, hard-hitting western novel by Clair Huffaker that was later turned into a John Wayne western. Jack Tawlin is an infamous gunfighter, known all over the west for his ability with a gun. Fresh out of prison, his younger brother, Jess, and a storekeeper, Snyder, approach Tawlin with a plan to knock off a gold shipment. The catch? The gold is transported in an iron stagecoach with four guards inside, a rifleman on top, and twenty riders escorting the shipment from town to town. Against the odds, Tawlin teams up with Snyder and his motley crew for a chance at almost a million in gold. Having seen the movie and read Huffaker's other novels, I thought this was a safe bet, and it is. Good action, developed characters, and enough twist and turns so you're never quite sure who's on who's side. And besides, how can you wrong with a heist story set in the wild west? The War Wagon in movie form has been altered quite a bit, but Huffaker's basic idea is there. Characters change and are combined some, but it's also worth checking out. Kirk Douglas joins Wayne, Keenan Wynn, Bruce Cabot, Joanna Barnes, Robert Walker Jr, and Howard Keel in the highly enjoyable 1967 western." Directed by Burt Kennedy with screenplay by Hufaker. [1 copy available]
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WARLOCK (The Legends West Trilogy, Book 1)
by Oakley Hall. Steve Assel cover art.
Condition: Good only, 1988 Bantam paperback edition, first printing. Spine crease with small edgewear. Light tanning to interior page edges. Content: Hall's brilliant, complex take on the American western, first published in 1958, more than stands the test of time. A newly hired gun-slinging lawman, Clay Blaisedell, tries to restore order to the mythical silver mining town of Warlock, CA. . His reputation for violence serves him well during the first robbery on his watch, but his quick trigger finger, and that of deputy John Gannon, also get him in trouble. A bizarre killing spree (covertly perpetrated by Blaisedell's best friend, a murky political figure named Tom Morgan) and an impending miners' strike (one that allows gang leader Abe McQuown to mount a charge against Blaisedell and Gannon) set up the inevitable final, blazing set of confrontations. Hall, who has written more than 20 novels, taps into the mythic essence of the Wild West with a potent combination of dense but fast-moving prose; a colorful cast of violent, corrupt characters; and a diabolical, ethically neutral worldview. His prosaic tracking of the town's violently shifting nodes of power is prescient and brings Cormac McCarthy to mind as the story unfolds. No account of the fictions of the American West can be complete without reconsidering this revelatory novel. The 1959 movie starred Henry Fonda (as Blaisedell), Richard Widmark (as Gannon), Anthony Quinn (as Morgan), Dorothy Malone, and Dolores Michaels. Look for DeForrest Kelly as a good bad-guy. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Not to be missed if you are a fan of Western movies. [1 copy available]
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WELCOME TO HARD TIMES
by E. L. Doctorow. Condition: Very good, gently pre-read 1976 Bantam paperback, first printing. Pale hinge crease with diagonal crease upper back cover corner. Interior clean & tight. Content: As hopeless as a town that will always burn. Doctrow's novel is sleek and powerful, not just an American story, but the story of all society, building up and breaking down, of the dirty nature of the human soul, and the little spots of light that try to burn bright; a story in which the democratic mass is dangerous and the philosopher king is not as powerful as he aught to be, and the Bad Man from Bodie, like the Lord of the Flies, is not only always waiting to ride down from the mountain, but resides in most every human heart. Still, it is an essentially American novel and pays particular interest to deconstructing the Myth of the American West, a kind of anit-Shane. This book could also be called the "universal masterpiece on the cost of cowardice." The movie starred Henry Fonda, Aldo Ray, Janice Rule, & Keenan Wynn. [1 copy available]
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THE WESTERN
by David Carter. Color & B&W movie stills section. Condition: NEW 2008 Kamera Trade Paperback, no printing given. Content: From the very beginnings of American cinema the Western has been a central genre, as the hazardous lives of the settlers, their conflict with Native Americans, the lawless frontier towns, outlaws, and cattle rustlers all found their way into the new medium of film. This book provides a basic work of reference for all the major directors and noteworthy films of the genre. It discusses how folk heroes and heroines such as Jesse and Frank James, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Calamity Jane, and Annie Oakley were all eagerly seized on by filmmakers, and how writers, from the very popular to the very literary—from Zane Grey to Owen Wister and James Fennimore Cooper—were plundered for storylines. The great Hollywood directors are all here, including John Ford, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Michael Curtiz, Sam Peckinpah, and Henry Hathaway, as well as great stars such as John Wayne, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Russell, and Clint Eastwood. Learn how the Western became popular worldwide by offering escape, adventure, stunning landscapes, and romance, as well universal themes such as survival, law and order, defense of family, and dreams of a new and better world. [1 copy available]
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WESTERNS
by Philip French. B&W movie stills throughout. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1977 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback, revised edition. Name on half-title page with light edge wear. Interior clean & tight. Content: Westerns have been the most stable and popular of movie genres eversince The Great Train Robbery captured the imagination of countless moviegoers across America. But like all the most popular art forms, in keeping pace with the times, Westerns have undergone a constant evolution in format and thematic structure. In the last three decades, the essential innocence of old Western heroes like William S. Hart and Tom Mix has been replaced by the adult complexities of the psychological Western, the political Western, the allegorical Western and now the comedy Western. In this revised and updated re-issue of his comprehensive Wester, French traces the reasons for these variations in the genre, and sets them against the background of the social, political and historical forces which have influenced the Western's development since the war. There is a newer version of this book which reviews newer movies like the wonderful Open Range - but - wow - affording it is a problem. [1 copy available]
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THE WHITE BUFFALO
directed by J. Lee Thompson. Movie stills front & back box cover. Condition: Near fine PRIVATE COLLECTION 1992 VHS movie. Tiny "rubbing" top front box cover (I did that). Viewed once. GUARANTEED! Content: Reviewer: "This 1977 movie is based on Richard Sale's book concerning two characters enroute to their mutual destiny, Crazy Horse and Wild Bill Hickock. They are both called to hunt the sacred White Buffalo for a different purpose. Crazy Horse (Will Sampson), to re-claim the right to be called by his name and to wrap the hide around his dead child so that she can enter paradise. While Hickock (Charles Bronson) is drawn by a sixth sense toward his encounter through nightmarish dreams in the belief that the confrontation will solve the sickness that has been in his brain. The movie is so full of western slang that you almost need a glossary of terms to know what is going on. It is either a great movie or just an average one according to how you feel about a western that is mysterious, deep, intensely dark, full of atmospheric snow laden mountains, a god-like Buffalo that cannot be stopped and a stand out performance by Clint Walker as a very bad adversary. You can almost classify this as a Western Horror movie and it has an excellent supporting cast, including Kim Novak, Slim Pickens, John Carradine, the wonderful Jack Warden, Stuart Whitman, Ed Lauter, Martin Kove, and others who fill the stock characters to perfection." This is a very odd Western but well worth viewing and owning. Guaranteed! [1 copy available]
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WILLIE BOY: A Desert Manhunt (INSCRIBED COPY)
by Harry Lawton. B&W photo section with fold-out map detailing Willie Boy's travels. Condition: UNREAD 1960 Malki Museum Press Trade Paperback, second edition, first printing. INSCRIBED to Texas O. Henry scholar, Colonel Trueman O'Quinn. Binder's glue strings down spine with tiny edgewear. Interior clean and tight. Content: "A 500-mile posse-chase aftr a Paiute killr over the Mohave Desert in 1909 has been skilfully recrated, with a background of Indian lore and description of the country, most of which the author tracked over following the flight route." "To my mind, Willie Boy is as good on mob psychology as the Ox Bow Incident. - J. Frank Dobie The 1969 movie was directed by Abraham Polonsky and starred Robert Blake (a great actor no matter what else one may think), Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan, Ned Romero, Charles McGraw, and Garry Walberg. A great Western movie! [1 copy available]
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