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...meet a shady lady when his rendezvous is suddenly thwarted by a policeman. One of his best series resulted when in 1967 he came across a book by Robert W. Service, whose poetry he had loved as a child. Service's Yukon saloons,^ Canadian Mounties and rootin' tootin' shoot-em-ups meshed perfectly with Copley's scampering W.C. Fields style and his love of Victoriana. The lady is often nude ("Women's bodies are very charming"), the man always clothed ("I don't find nude men charming at all"). Whether waged with sword...
...power sweeping company in San Diego; he is a partner in businesses in Arizona and Texas. Larry could be anything but a cowboy-until he climbs on the back of a bucking stallion or a 2,000-lb. Brahma bull. Then he is the rootin'est-tootin'est cowpoke who ever buckled on chaps...
...draw with an authentic re-creation of the Old West featuring "Buffalo Bill's" own collection of Western painting. Not to be outdone, the Denver Art Museum has mounted its own vivid exhibition of frontier days. Together, the two shows offer the American tourist more rootin'-tootin' cowhands, Texas longhorns, wild ponies, war paint and buckskin than a month of Saturday nights (see color...
...TEXAS RANGERS, by Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history-re-published for the first time since 1935-of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the law and other unpopular prejudices during the winning of the Southwest...
...TEXAS RANGERS, by Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history-republished for the first time since 1935-of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the law and other unpopular prejudices during the wild and woolly winning of the Southwest...