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How Hollywood invented the Wild West : featuring The real West, Campfire melodies, Matinee idols, Four legged friends, Cowgirls & lone guns / Holly George-Warren.

by George-Warren, Holly.

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Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest, c2002.

Western films -- United States -- History and criticism.

224 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Home on the range : the golden age of the cowboy -- Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies : dime novels, wild west shows, "the Virginian," the cowboy president, and buckaroo ballads -- How the western was born : "The great train robbery," Broncho Billy, and early movie milestones -- A western masquerade : William S. Hart, Tom Mix, and other silent cowboy stars -- Guns and guitars : Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and the western musical -- harlem on the prairie : African-Americans in the West (and in westerns) -- Killer B's : Hoppy and horse operas to the rescue -- I can tell by your outfit that you are a cowboy : the dress of western movies -- Western treasures : the marketing of the cowboy image -- The shootists : Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, and James Stewart -- Queens of the West : reel (and real) cowgirls -- Western masters : directors John Ford, Henry King, Howard Hawks, and Anthony Mann -- Big guns on the little screen : a bonanza of westerns on TV -- The good, the bad, and the ugly meet the wild bunch : Leone, Peckinpah, Eastwood, and the anticowboy -- Misfits, young riders, and "unforgiven" : the revisionist old and new West.

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