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...starts off promisingly as a character study of tensions among the hard-riding, hard-living members of the broken-bone-and-bandage set, but soon falls into a conventional movie mold. A Texas cowhand (Arthur Kennedy) becomes a champion rider with the help of a has-been rodeo ace (Robert Mitchum). But Kennedy has a beautiful red-haired wife (Susan Hay-ward). So just as much action begins to develop outside the rodeo arena as inside when the two men tangle over the lady. The gustiest characterization in The Lusty Men is provided by Arthur Hunnicutt as a punchy...
...search brings Cowhand Kennedy to Marlene's ranch on the Mexican border, a fancy men's club restricted to desperadoes who want rest and relaxation between their brushes with the law. While Kennedy tries to decide which of the resident badmen killed his girl, Marlene sings throatily, lazily crosses her beautiful legs, and looks sultry. She also irritates Gunman Mel Ferrer by going on moonlight walks with Kennedy and murmuring such sweet nothings as "I wish you'd go away and come back ten years...
Some of the liveliest historical writing about the Old West (The Trampling Herd, Death in the Desert) is the work of an ex-cowhand and ex-Kansas newspaperman named Paul I. (Iselin) Wellman. All of it was done before Wellman went to the far West, all the way to Hollywood, in fact, where he became a scriptwriter. Now, in The Iron Mistress, a historical novel about Frontiersman James Bowie, he writes thus...
...fortune hunters sadly departed when they learned that Cripple Creek had no geological formations indicating the presence of gold. Only Bob Womack, a cowhand, kept digging for gold in his spare time; he was called "Crazy Bob" for his pains. In January 1891, Crazy Bob struck gold, sold his claim for $500 while drunk celebrating. He died a pauper, but the field he opened up was one of the richest in the world. Out of Cripple Creek's famed mines (Golden Cycle, El Paso, Ajax, Independence, Vindicator, Isabella, Portland) poured a golden flood of more than $500 million...
Back on his ranch at Sonoita, near Tucson, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Lewis Douglas, boss of one cowhand, a string of horses and 400 head of cattle, felt well enough to take on a community job. Cattle-raising neighbors elected him chairman of their rainmaking committee, then hired a California rainmaker to help break the drought...