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For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Western films ever made. Ford, known for his black eye patch and for his hard-drinking, brawling masculinity, was a son of Irish immigrants and was renowned as a director for both his craftsmanship and his brutality. John "Duke" Wayne was a mere stagehand and bit player in "B" Westerns, but he was strapping and handsome, and Ford saw...
93) Rope like dad
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Enjoy watching a determined young cowboy aspire to become a team roper like his dad!
94) The naughty pony
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A trustworthy pony is rare and the search for a good one could be compared to that of trying to find a needle in a haystack! Naughty ponies have a repertoire of dirty tricks they use to dishearten and discourage their riders. Enjoy the true story of Fletcher and his awful schemes and maneuvers!
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"Starting with early 1900s Western movies, the narrative follows the evolution in look, style, and content as the films matured from short vignettes of good-versus-bad into the modern plots. The book compares the reality of the cowboys, Indians, gunmen, lawmen, and soldiers who peopled the Old West to how they are portrayed on the silver screen"--