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Thu, 03/04/2010 - 12:10
Was on TCM last night(unedited)....although the movie was a box office flop it's a pretty good (and long - 4 hours) about the Johnson County wars in Wyoming...focused a lot on Ella Watson (a supposed madam that was accused of trading "carnal pleasures" for stolen cattle.). Kris Kristofferson looked a lot younger back then....
Ever seen it?
Your thoughts...I liked it
This post was modified at Thu, 03/04/2010 - 21:51 (EST) by Jayhawker27
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I've seen it. The movie is OK as long as you realize that practically none of is true.
I used to hunt on the ranch where a lot of the history played out so I became interested in the story long before the movie was made. Interestingly, where the shootout took place, Crazy Woman Creek, is also where Jeremiah Johnson supposedly entered the "wilderness", the Bighorn mountains.
Crazy Woman creek, is loaded with beaver dams, ducks, geese, huge trout, whitetail deer, and pheasants. It's also a great place to use to ambush pronghorn that get within rifle range.
Another interesting story to come out of Wyoming regarding hired guns is the story of Tom Horn. The movie also was OK but the true story of Tom Horn is better.
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Yes - they did stretch history quite a bit....Rather than being shot, the Association hanged Ella Watson with a lasso...so she strangled...
and Tom Horn's story is indeed one worth getting to know...
This post was modified at Thu, 03/04/2010 - 21:52 (EST) by Jayhawker27
"Gentlemen, Prepare to defend yourselves" SGM Basil Plumley
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"Very odd. I've never blown a goat." Buffy
Jim Averill as well. Both two or 3 years before the shootout
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Missed it!
That is one movie I want to see, a few folks have told me that it is a pretty good film.
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"Gentlemen, Prepare to defend yourselves" SGM Basil Plumley
"I would rather be the hammer than the anvil..." Irwin Rommel
"Very odd. I've never blown a goat." Buffy
Heres a "you suck" for being able to watch a 4 hour movie, happy retirement
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Thank you...it came on at 11 PM - I was up til 3am....got some sack time and then got up and went hunting....this is almost like having a job!
"Gentlemen, Prepare to defend yourselves" SGM Basil Plumley
"I would rather be the hammer than the anvil..." Irwin Rommel
"Very odd. I've never blown a goat." Buffy
4 hours? Rookie
I've actually watched Lonesome Dove begining to end in one sitting a few times
I'm putting this one on my list to watch.
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Psalm 109:8 - "May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership."
Lonesome Dove....yep did that...
Watched Band of Brothers in one sitting too....didn't mean to,but I just couldn't stop watching...
"Gentlemen, Prepare to defend yourselves" SGM Basil Plumley
"I would rather be the hammer than the anvil..." Irwin Rommel
"Very odd. I've never blown a goat." Buffy
I've TiVo'd it, but haven't watched it yet; looking forward to it, but I gotta stock up on popcorn and maybe a wee tetch of corn squeezin's before I set out to watch it!
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Life member of the NRA since 2009 and three-time attendee at the famous SE Shoot! Yay, teach!!
Children, early eighties when I lived in NYC they ran Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz, a 15 hour German TV miniseries on a movie theater, there where 2 options, 5 tickets so you could see a ~3 hour segment weekly and a once run of the entire 15 hour thing with intermissions, took something like 20 hours to watch the entire thing, to be young again, now I'll be snoring by hour 6.
This post was modified at Sun, 03/07/2010 - 02:12 (EST) by bruchi
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Don't believe everything you think.
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What you do defines you, not what you say or think.