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1 hour ago, ness said:

Agree it’s his best. A  great character in that movie. I love the, “Let’s go home, Debbie” scene. 

Also loosely based on history. Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped as a small girl and raised by Comanches. Not a happy ending in real life. 

She did have a very tough and tragic life.  However her son Quanah Parker turned out to be a very respected individual.  

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1 hour ago, Quillback said:

She did have a very tough and tragic life.  However her son Quanah Parker turned out to be a very respected individual.  

Empire of the Summer Moon is a good book about Quanah

John

Posted
1 hour ago, ness said:

Empire of the Summer Moon is a good book about Quanah

A favorite of mine.  But.  When it comes to Western reading, nobody beats Larry McMurtry.  

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24 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

A favorite of mine.  But.  When it comes to Western reading, nobody beats Larry McMurtry.  

Welp, I’d probably agree for fiction. Love Lonesome Dove. But… there’s a lot of good stuff out there. The Virginian by Owen Wister is a goodun. 

John

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5 minutes ago, ness said:

Welp, I’d probably agree for fiction. Love Lonesome Dove. But… there’s a lot of good stuff out there. The Virginian by Owen Wister is a goodun. 

For me at least the follow ons after Lonesome Dove sent me down a deep rabbit hole.  Late night reading at its best.

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Guys, how many movies have they made from Louis L'Amour's books? Kinda like Raymond Chandler, L'Amour's penny a word stories built the genre. Wayne even did at least one - Hondo.

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3 hours ago, rps said:

Guys, how many movies have they made from Louis L'Amour's books? Kinda like Raymond Chandler, L'Amour's penny a word stories built the genre. Wayne even did at least one - Hondo.

My dad loved Louis L’Amour and read a lot of his books. He picked up one and there was a character in it with our very uncommon last name. Dad wrote L’Amour and asked him how he happened upon that name. He got a letter back explaining it all. I’ve got a copy of the letter here. 

John

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During our early high school Driver's Ed class drives, we would drive to Winterset, Iowa, and drive by John Wayne's boyhood home there.  Incidentally, that is very near where Clint Eastwood & Merly Streep's movie "The Bridges of Madison County" was filmed.

I also stayed at a Holiday Inn once. 😏

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1 hour ago, FishnDave said:

During our early high school Driver's Ed class drives, we would drive to Winterset, Iowa, and drive by John Wayne's boyhood home there.  Incidentally, that is very near where Clint Eastwood & Merly Streep's movie "The Bridges of Madison County" was filmed.

I also stayed at a Holiday Inn once. 😏

We went up there a few years back for a weekend just to get away. The bridges are pretty cool, but I couldn't care less about the movie. Ate like an Iowegian at Iowa Machine Shed, went to a pretty good cidery in Winterset and visited Living History Farm in Urbandale, which is pretty cool. Something about it reminded me of this place :D 

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John

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1 hour ago, FishnDave said:

Clint Eastwood & Merly Streep's movie "The Bridges of Madison County" was filmed.

 

The worst movie I ever had to sit through. 

 

 

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