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Westerns & the Old West
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I post almost exclusively about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films/pop culture. I do drawings too. ๐Ÿ‰

Cheers! ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿป๐Ÿค  & God bless ๐Ÿ™

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A ball point pen sketch
February 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Happy Birthday to the late, great Frank Frazetta, born Frank Frazzetta 98 years ago today
February 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Ernest Tubb, born 112 years ago today
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Brian Donlevy, born Waldo Brian Donlevy 125 years ago today
February 9, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Jack Lemmon, born John Uhler Lemmon III 101 years ago today
February 8, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Happy Birthday to the late King Vidor, born 132 years ago today
February 8, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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Here's a young Sam Peckinpah playing a bit part as a bank teller opposite Joel McCrea in Jacques Tourneur's Wichita (1955). I think you'll agree that Peckinpah's performance is nuanced & riveting, just like his films
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Jonah Hex by Bill Sienkiewicz

Clint Eastwood as The Outlaw Josey Wales

My overlay of the two
March 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The Outlaw Josey Wales vs. Unforgiven in regards to the order of killing:
March 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Happy Birthday to the late Tom Wilkinson, born 78 years ago today
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Happy 78th Birthday to Christopher Guest, born Christopher Haden-Guest
February 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Happy 78th Birthday to Barbara Hershey, born Barbara Lynn Herzstein
February 5, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Tim Holt, born Charles John Holt III 107 years ago today
February 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Belle Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley 178 years ago today
February 5, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Maybe Eastwood is mistaken & this was actually just a rule for TV Westerns. The only problem with that is Ida Lupino. She directed an episode of Tate* where the hero shoots someone & it's all in the same frame

*a show about a poncho-wearing bounty hunter. Hmmmm...
February 4, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Ida Lupino, born 108 years ago today
February 4, 2026 at 9:37 AM
The Tall T (1957), directed by Budd Boetticher

Heaven's Gate (1980), directed by Michael Cimino
February 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Heaven's Gate (1980) directed by Michael Cimino

One of the actual "go-devils" used in the Johnson County War in 1892:
February 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Horace Greeley was born 215 years ago today
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Michael Cimino, born 87 years ago today
February 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Unfinished ball point pen sketch from a few years ago
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Happy Birthday to the late, great Norman Rockwell, born 132 years ago today
February 3, 2026 at 9:26 AM
While filming The Wild Bunch, Bo Hopkins asked for the squibs to be taped directly to his skin so that he would give a naturally pained performance*

*excerpt from W.K. Stratton's book on the making of The Wild Bunch
February 2, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Bo Hopkins, born William Mauldin Hopkins 88 years ago today
February 2, 2026 at 9:42 AM
R.I.P.
February 1, 2026 at 10:03 PM