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HIS HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS …

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His heroes have always been cowboys. Garry loved them all from Randolph Scott, to The Duke. Being in Arizona, the place where so many of his heroes rode the dusty trail to greatness in their classic movies was a special time.

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HIS HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS … AND THEY STILL ARE, IT SEEMS

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22 replies

    • Marilyn Armstrong
      02/15/2016 • 10:49

      Thanks! We were there off season and it was incredibly hot … well over 100 degrees all the time. So they were barely moving. Not even the stage was running much and when it did, the horses moved very very slowly. I love the movie, too!

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  2. Judy @ NewEnglandGardenAndThread
    02/14/2016 • 13:11

    I don’t know if they have been my heroes, but they sure are my entertainment of choice. Give me a good old western, and I’m one happy woman. I can figure out who the good guy is, who the bad guy is, and who the damsel in distress is, and most likely how it will work out. No stress, just simple entertainment. 🙂

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  3. swo8
    02/13/2016 • 12:19

    Those were the days when a man was a man and a woman was a woman.
    Leslie

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  4. judyt54
    02/13/2016 • 10:58

    my favorite song, too. Nice post.

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    • Garry Armstrong
      02/13/2016 • 11:15

      Judy, I sang that at my one and only Karaoke performance. I still sing it in the shower.
      Cowboys are special..with their own brand of misery..from being alone too long.
      Got a fix with another viewing of “Shane” yesterday. I love the last scene with Shane and that annoying brat, Joey.
      Shane’s slow, slumped in the saddle ride off into the sunset …with Victor Young’s wistful theme music up full….is a thing of beauty.

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      02/13/2016 • 11:34

      Garry’s favorite song, too. I also like it … and I liked what whoever posted it on YouTube did with the pictures 🙂

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  5. angloswiss
    02/13/2016 • 02:50

    Although, correct me if I am wrong, I believe the cowboy era lasted only around 10 years. Then came the railroad etc. etc. I love reading the non-fiction about the cowboy times, the true story of Wyatt Earp and how it really was. I grew up with all the cowboys in film. My dream was to visit Dodge City one day and actually see Boot Hill.

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    • Garry Armstrong
      02/13/2016 • 11:18

      Ms. Swiss, we prefer legend over fact.
      The good guys rule…as sure as the turning of the earth.

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    • jcalberta
      02/13/2016 • 11:18

      i think that cowboy thing is kind of a mindset – a philosophy – a way of living and looking at things. a code. don’t have to have a gun. or even a horse.

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      • Garry Armstrong
        02/14/2016 • 12:37

        Agree with you about mindset. I tried to use it during my working years. Don’t laugh. I even got to bring down a few bad guys. No guns needed.

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      02/13/2016 • 11:36

      I’m not sure exactly how long the period lasted. It wasn’t like the fall of the Roman Empire with an actual date. It started after the civil war — figure 1865ish and ended (more or less) in the 1880s. But it wasn’t a clean start or clean finish. It lasted later in some parts of the southwest than others. There was a time when Kansas was the wild west, then it was Arizona and Wyoming and California. As q place got built up, the era (for them) ended.

      The true stories are fascinating. My favorite character has become Doc Holliday. He was stranger than fiction … you just can’t make this stuff up.

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