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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5126177" data-attributes="member: 54707">I saw this thread Umbran and since I like Westerns so much I thought I'd give it a shot before hitting breakfast.My favorite Westerns, and the ones I'd recommend are by Robert Parker, Larry McMurtry, and some of the Western short fiction of Louis L'Amour. I'd also recommend the more modern Westerns of Cormac McCarthy.As far as TV went I liked Kung Fu (been rewatching that series from the beginning), Wild, Wild West (I'll watch part of the second season tonight - skip that crapfest of a movie though), High Chaparral, Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, the Rifleman, and Bonanza.As for films my favorite Westerns are Open Range, and Once Upon a Time in the West (I watch both once a year). Now I also like 3:10 to Yuma, the remake. I also love Lonesome Dove and some of the related films. I'd also highly recommend Unforgiven, Pale Rider, may of the old westerns with Jimmy Stewart and Robert Mitchum (I met him once, not while filming a Western though), and the Outlaw Josey Wales. And even Dances with Wolves. But if you've never seen it, see Dead Man with Johnny Depp. I now it sounds crazy, Johnny Depp. But trust me. And don't forget Black Robe. Speaking of that general subject matter personally I think that the West and the Cavil War and the Frontier's era were all related. The West was simply a continuation of the Frontier's era and the push West in the US, and the Civil War affected both greatly.So as strange as it might seem up front I'd also recommend studying and reading things on the Civil War and on the frontier's era. Like I will Fight No More Forever, a lot about the American Indian, I'd recommend the Civil War series by Ken Burns, and stuff like Deerslayer, and Last of the Mohicans (which was about "the West" of that era). I'd recommend studying about famous Frontiersmen and Mountain Men. Come to think of it I used to really like Grizzly Adams. There's also a show on right now called Wild West Tech. It ain't half bad.But I'm serious about the Civil War and Daniel Boone (real and imagined) and Davy Crockett (ditto) and the Texas Wars and the Plains Wars being really part of the Western movement. To me that was the era of the fathers of the West. As a matter of fact I'm writing a novel right now which starts out during the Regulator movement in SC (before the American Revolution), then eventually moves West right before and during the Civil War to end up in the town of Letterman. I've done a lot of research for both novels which have convinced me that the Frontiersman and Mountain Man simply morphed into the cowboy once he got over the Mississippi. My Name is Nobody is a brilliant comedy to me. So is Blazing Saddles.</blockquote>

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