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...authentic, sometimes stomach-turning local color, and the chance to compare the U.S. and down-under forms of the western. Some differences spring to mind at once: Australian cowboys are called stockmen; they use 21-ft. whips rather than lariats; the noble redman of the plains is an ignoble blackfellow, i.e., aborigine; most important, the police are not star-spangled sheriffs hunting down bad men-they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheep Opera | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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