Cowboy Heros

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If I recall, the man who played "Festus" on Gunsmoke was one of the "Sons of the Pioneers" who sang for Roy Rogers. It's been several years ago when I was looking for an old movie on YouTube and ran into that info. There's a shot of him singing "Tumbling Tumble Weeds" on YouTube and he actually was a pretty good singer.
 
Gary Cooper, The Westerner
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"An actor who might have surpassed them all, including John Wayne, if he had made more Westerns was Gary Cooper. The tall, lean, lanky, slow-talking Cooper was the perfect cowboy. After playing bit parts in silent movies, the Montana native was cast as the Virginian in the movie of the same name in 1929. Although he and the movie were hits, Cooper was not subsequently typecast as a cowboy, and he made only a handful of Westerns in his long career. Several of those that he did make, though, are classics. One of them, The Westerner, has Cooper and Walter Brennan engaged in the longest and best exchange of looks and words in Western-movie history. The two play off each other brilliantly. Cooper’s part is especially difficult, because he subtly has to let the audience understand that he is inventing his tale about his character’s relationship with Lily Langtry while appearing convincing to Brennan. Cooper does both, expressing a wide range of emotions through his eyes, which seem made for the camera. And, as one of my female students put it in a seminar on Western films, Cooper was “at the height of his physical attractiveness.”
https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cowboy-heroes/
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Authenticity:
Will Penny-Charlton Heston (oldie)
Conagher -sam elliott
'Monty Walsh' 1970 with Lee Marvin (remake with Tom Selleck is worth the watch)

Selleck and Elliott were born to play westerns

Authors:
Jack Schaefe, Larry Mccurty and :Elmer Kelton, write about the old west as we would like it to been.
we weren't there: so authenticity is as we wish it to be .
Schaefer and McCurty had no experience of 'cowboying'
,Kelton was raised on various ranches until he got out of high school."
 
jerry r. garner said:
Authenticity:
Will Penny-Charlton Heston (oldie)
Conagher -sam elliott
'Monty Walsh' 1970 with Lee Marvin (remake with Tom Selleck is worth the watch)

Selleck and Elliott were born to play westerns

Authors:
Jack Schaefe, Larry Mccurty and :Elmer Kelton, write about the old west as we would like it to been.
we weren't there: so authenticity is as we wish it to be .
Schaefer and McCurty had no experience of 'cowboying'
,Kelton was raised on various ranches until he got out of high school."
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I knew Elmer Kelton.
 
I've been watching Ken Burns PBS series on Country and Western music. I had forgotten how many of the Saturday afternoon movie heroes got their start through music, for example Gene Autry and Roy Rogers
 
Drifter:
Last I heard he was still working, reading, doing whatever in that large used bookstore he owned in that small town he lived in. He certainly did not need the money: I suppose he just liked drifting around the old musky books-I would.
 
Yes, got it wrong,- had a picture of McMurty puttering around in his store in Archer, obviously pleased with his activity.
If you mention a small town to me, I automatically say, 'Oh yea, Abbot,'

I had no idea Kelton had died;,
 
I lived in both Crane and San Angelo.. My cousin's daddy and Elmer went to school together in Crane.
After we moved to Lubbock my wife started having Texas Author's Day and Kelton came up several times
for book signings and if he had time would visit family. Kelton was the real McCoy as the saying goes.
 
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The Old Texan Elmer Kelton

Elmer Kelton

Born in Horse Camp, Five Wells Ranch, Andrews County, Texas, The United States April 29, 1926
DiedAugust 22, 2009
Websitehttp://www.elmerkelton.net/
GenreLiterature & Fiction, Westerns

"Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Men’s Horses, Texas Standoff and Hard Trail to Follow. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. Among his awards have been seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for 42 years. He served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009."
 

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