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LETTERS
Crossfire Caught
Fire
Readers react to TNT’s hit , the Grey
Fox’s grace, and deliberations on the divine
Tom
Selleck Saluted
My husband and I enjoy your magazine immensely. We enjoy
the viewpoints you espouse and we like reading about
people
like Tom Selleck and George Strait, not to mention the
everyday
ranchers and cowboys who live the life we live. And speaking
of Tom Selleck, we watched Crossfire Trail the other
night
and you were right on the money about TNT westerns.
They
offer great entertainment value that we are not
embarrassed to
let our children watch. A big plus for us is that
people like Mr.
Selleck also try to live up to those values that
are so inherent
to westerns—truth, standing up for what is right,
and knowing
that right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter
how many
shades of gray there are.
We
try to teach our children those
values and it’s nice to know that there are people
in the entertainment
industry who realize that impressionable children
are watching and that they will be an influence
to those
children.
Thank you, Mr. Selleck… You were also right on
in the editorial
titled “God Blessed America”…
Finally,
this: we were at the
Colorado Springs Airport on January 4th and
I noticed a chair
that had a decidedly familiar look to it. Sure
enough, we got
back home and looked at our issue of American
Cowboy and
there was the same chair. [See
p. 48 in Jan./Feb. 2001 for photo –EDITOR.] Skip O’Dell’s
beautiful chair (the rocker with the ram’s
heads carved on the arms) was on display and let me tell you,
it is even more impressive up close and personal. The photo
is pretty, but the chair itself is fantastic… You guys do a great
job.
God bless you. Sincerely,
Mrs.
Byron (Juana) Hajek
Ramah, Colorado
Thanks, Juana, for the kind words. We inquired with
TNT shortly
after the multiple broadcasts of Crossfire, and learned
that the
movie set a new record as the highest-rated and most-watched
movie—original or theatrical—in the history of basic
cable television.
It reaped a 9.6 Nielsen rating, and a 13.2 share,
delivering
7.7 million households. It’s what we keep telling
everyone:
westerns are what people want. Selleck and his old
pardner Sam
Elliott keep setting records each time they do a
western for TNT.
–—EDITOR
Fond Farewell
I
am writing in response to your “Crossings” column (Jan./Feb.)
about the late Richard Farnsworth. Some years ago,
I had the
great privilege of meeting Mr. Farnsworth.
In
those days, my
husband and I were riding for cow outfits, and my creative
bent leaned towards cowboy poetry. In January of ’89
I found
myself with the rest of the boys at the Elko, Nev.,
Cowboy Poetry Gathering. One evening, at the Stockman’s
Casino,
I
paused to talk to some acquaintances from Texas. When
I chanced
to look across their table, there, to my complete shock,
I saw
a familiar face—the Grey Fox! Turns out he was a friend
to
these folks.
Next
thing I know, here the movie star was, shaking
my hand, and speaking in the same mild, friendly,
down-home drawl I’d heard pouring like warm molasses
from the
silver screen. The beauty of the man was that he
was real. His
easy, kindly manner made me feel as if I were visiting
an old
neighbor. Before we parted, I did get up the foolish
gumption to ask for his autograph. He gave it.
I
still have it,
scrawled in
the inside of an Ian Tyson cassette wrapper… I never
knew the
man, yet there is no doubt in my mind that, had
I known him,
he would have been a treasure among friends. Farewell,
cowboy,
and ride easy. G.M.
Atwater
mule packer and sometimes-cowhand
Gardnerville, Nevada
Taking
the High View
I
am writing in regard to the Frontiers editorial,
“God Blessed
America, ” in the Jan./Feb. issue. I’ve been a fan of
the American
West and the western movie for most of my 50-plus years.
I
still love Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy,
Wild Bill
Elliot, Lash LaRue, Allan “Rocky” Lane, and many others.
And
of course such greats as Gary Cooper, Joel McCrea, Randolph
Scott, and the Duke.
I
wear western-type outfits and cowboy
boots here where I live in Oakdale, Calif., which is
still a cowboy
town. I have the privilege of serving as pastor of
Sierra Baptist Church in Oakdale. I was blessed
and somewhat
startled
to read such a super statement in your magazine. The
whole key to having a legitimate concept regarding
religious faith is having a high view of God.
Any God that is less
than
the God revealed in the Bible is not God at all.
When
man “creates”
a god then all you have left is religion. God must
be the sovereign, omnipotent, infinite God or He is not
God with a
capital G. Thanks for your defense of the God who is
God and
I also hope that our new president is not only religious
but
also is godly. May Lincoln’s example be emulated in the
life of
President Bush. God bless you. Pastor Joe Ferguson,
Oakdale, California
Corrections/Clarifications:
In
the Jan./Feb. issue, in the Fashion article,
the dress shown
on p. 34, lower right, was mistakenly attributed
to the wrong
maker. That dress was made by Desert West. Desert
West also
should have been listed on p. 99, in our Resource
Guide, along
with their phone number, which, incidentally,
is 888-588-WEST.
In
the same article, the references to H Bar C
California
Ranchwear should have been to simply California
Ranchwear. The
shirt worn by Shane in the top photo on p.
30 should have
been attributed to Amy Hoban California Ranchwear.
The Beaver
Brand Hats, shown on pp. 30, 32, 33, and 34
should have been
attributed to American Hat Co., whose phone
number is 800-392-4197.
We
apologize for any inconveniences.
Please address any letter submitted for publication
to Letters
to the Editor, American Cowboy magazine,
P.O. Box 820, Buffalo,
WY 82834. Or send email to jmullins@cowboy.com.
With email,
as with regular mail, please specify if
the correspondence is
intended as a letter to the editor. American
Cowboy reserves
the right to edit letters for length or
clarity.
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