DUSTY TRAILS
SHOW NOTES
0:23—Welcome and
Announcements
1:05—A few words about
today's Dusty Trails episode
1:45—Electronic comics and
the Hoopla app. Bouncer western comics with art by François Boucq and
story by Alejandro Jodorowsky .
3:58—Acid Western comics and
movies
5:46—Be warned, Bouncer
is graphic, gory stuff, but the story is compelling. Complete with a character
named AxHead
6:55—A fabulous new western
by G. Wayne Tillman: Ghost Posse
8:47—And Now the Main Feature—Dusty
Trails!
9:20—The Big Trail
with John Wayne
10:25—1931s Fighting
Caravans with Gary Cooper and later 1934's remake with Randolph Scott
starring in Wagon Wheels
11:35—1940's Kit Carson
with John Hall
12:00—And here are a few
movies about pioneering Mormons
13:00—Let's talk Santa Fe
Trail, which begins in in Arrow Rock, Missouri through 900 miles of untamed
wilderness
13:35—Santa Fe Passage,
a short story from Esquire, by Clay Fisher (a.k.a. Henry Wilson Heck Allen)
and the movie from 1955 of the same name.
16:46—Another book called Santa
Fe Passage, this one written by Jon R. Bauman from 2007
17:40—Death Comes for the
Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
18:50—The 24-book Wagons
West series by Dana Fuller Ross (pseudonym of Noel Bertram Gerson)
19:42—Bend of the River
(1952) with James Stewart directed by the under-rated Anthony Mann
21:04—Meek's Cutoff
(2010) revealing the strength of the female pioneers...it's not lighthearted
entertainment and features a frustratingly ambiguous ending.
23:00—Ralph Compton and the cattle
drive (or sometime a horse drive) as a backdrop
24:16—Red River (1948)
with John Wayne and directed by Howard Hawkes—it starts as a wagon train movie
and ends up as a cattle drive movie
25:03—The must-see The
Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne in this brilliant coming-of-age movies.
26:10—The Culpepper Cattle
Company (1972) an unflinching portrayal of life on the trail. An overlooked
gem.
27:22—City Slickers
(1991) a trail ride comedy with Billy Crystal and Jack Palance...and Paul talks
his own cattle drive.
28:20—The television
miniseries Lonesome Dove one of the most beloved cattle drive stories of
all time. And St. Elmo's Fire...? Yikes!
32:35—Chuck Wagon Bell!!!
Followed by Shootouts and Shoutouts!!
