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FORT TICONDEROGA?: MAN IN THE WILDERNESS( 1971); THE ALAMO (1960);
DISTANT DRUMS (1951); DAVEY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD
FRONTIER(1955); MAN FROM THE ALAMO(1953); THE FIGHTING KENTUCKIAN
(1949); KIT CARSON (1940); THE LAST COMMAND(1955); RETURN OF A MAN
CALLED HORSE( 1976); THE KENTUCKIAN(1955); FAR HORIZONS(1955)
OK, so the west was once upstate New York and it really all began
with James Fenimore Cooper.
Note that these tend to cluster around some periods, like the
French and Indian War, Texas and the Alamo, and the great mountain
scenery of the Rockies after about 1820. There are whole places
and periods left out in that westward movement and also note that
a great percentage of ALL westerns cover the period 1865 to 1890 -
a scant 25 years. |