Word: badmen
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...ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising quality of humor. One of her best stories, I Woke Up Wicked, is the tale of an unheroic cowboy who inadvertently becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String. Up to the last line, "I went home to Pennsylvania and took up plowing," she sustains perfectly the self-derisory note of the campfire raconteur. Her shorter stories are her best, and in tales of Indian, settler, miner and badman, she subtly suggests the tragedy...
Modern-day rustlers broke into a suburban San Francisco cemetery, made off with the tombstone of the West's TV-famed scourge of badmen. Dodge City's Town Marshal Wyatt Earp...
...something less than an Equity minimum. As the tenor untied himself, grabbed a deer rifle and hustled out the door, his captor audience skedaddled back out the gate, taking with it $140,000 in boodle (jewelry and cash). Police bag by week's end: two of the four badmen, all but about $40,000 of their loot...
...Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh O'Brian) has permitted only the occasional intrusion of women, but Brave Eagle (with Keith Larsen and Kim Winona) and Gunsmoke each have a hot-eyed heroine ready and willing to buckle on the guns and go out after the badmen if Frontier's ratings decree that women belong in the saddle and the men should go back to the range -the kitchen range, that...
...United Artists) has all the splendid cardboard heroics of the classic western. Sheridan City is so terrorized by a villainous rancher named Dade Holman that the panicky citizens hire flint-eyed, flint-faced Robert Mitchum to civilize the community. Inside of ten minutes, four of Holman's badmen are being measured for coffins. Casually holstering his guns, Town-Tamer Mitchum suggests burying at least two of them out on the wild prairie, because "Sheridan City's too small to have such a big cemetery...