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"The 100 Greatest Western Movies of All Time: Including Five You've Never Heard Of" is a fun, opinionated look at the best westerns of all time from the editors of American Cowboy. Reserve your copy today at HorseBooksEtc.com.
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WILD WESTERN FESTIVAL
Buck — Mon, 2010-09-06 11:36
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The two cowboy brothers from Oklahoma made it to the season finale of "The Amazing Race" with their traditional values and honesty. Although, they didn't win, the McCoy's agree that they walked away with the memory of a great experience and knowing that they will never give up their cowboy values.
American Cowboy: How did you land on “The Amazing Race?”
Jet: A casting director called me and planted the bug. She sent us an application. We mailed back our audition video and got selected. The rest was history.
Jet and Cord McCoy.
From the first silent Westerns to the mass appeal of reality television, the true American cowboy has continued to play an important role on TV and in film. Reality shows such as "Dancing with the Stars," "The Last American Cowboy" and "The Amazing Race," have featured the iconic figure of the American Cowboy.
For as long as Hollywood has been making moves and television shows, the image of the American cowboy has been a central figure. The Great Train Robbery and other silent Westerns of the early 1900s started the phenomenon. Actors such as Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and Gene Autry carried it forward, becoming household names in the process.
World Champion All-around Cowboy Ty Murray on "Dancing with the Stars." Photo courtesy of pbpulse.com
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That thunder on the horizon is an approaching stampede of otherworldly westerns.
Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, those shadowy apparitions destined to someday thunder out of nowhere into a world quite unprepared for their assault, so approaches a hard-charging herd of new Westerns in full-on, full-tilt fantasy mode. And yet nary a lookout has fired a warning shot, much less circled the wagons.
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It’s easy to see why many people relate to the story of Lonesome Dove as their own. In it they see their grandparents, or more abstractly the story of our country at the point its uniquely American character was laboring to be born. That the story is told so well is testament to the clear-eyed vision of Larry McMurtry as he penned his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and to the cast and crew who transcended the limits of television to bring his epic tale to the small screen with integrity intact. As the 20th anniversary of the Lonesome Dove miniseries approaches this February, we recognize it not only as the most successful miniseries of all time; we celebrate it as the first time anyone got the story right.
The seventh floor of the Albert B. Alkek Library on the Texas State University-San Marcos campus may seem like an unlikely destination for a pilgrimage, yet the devoted journey here from around the globe. They come to the Lonesome Dove room to view relics from a time and place that, if not quite sacred, is revered as an authentic expression of friendship,
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Poll
Should cattle branding be replaced with other identification technologies, like iris scanning, tattooing, tagging, etc.?
Yes- branding is a cruel, 19th-century anachronism.
27%
No- branding is cost effective, efficient, and humane.
73%
Total votes: 60
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