Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film: Hollywood’s Famous Lawmen and Outlaws Available to Purchase

Sad to relate, Western books, films and television programmes, once so powerful in our entertainment and culture, have largely disappeared from view. Land‐greedy ranchers, intrusive homesteaders, reviled sheep farmers, the cattle drive to the railhead, consumptive doctors, saloon girls no better than they should be but with hearts of gold, impulsive younger brothers going to hell in their own way, dubiously honest cardsharps, low‐holstered gunslingers, black‐hatted outlaws, white‐Stetsoned heroes, the schoolmarm heroines they meet in the first reel, and ride off with in the last, Colt revolvers and Winchester repeating rifles, have been replaced by predators with thermo‐heated visual organs,...