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The Hollywood Posse: The Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History

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Filled with adventure, romance and intrigue coupled with its historical setting this book tells the story of the early background players in motion pictures. Although it revolves around the authors father, cowboy, stuntman Jack Montgomery the tales she tells are indicative of a way of life that are long gone as are most of the background players of the golden era of western movies. It tells of the "real" cowboy migration of the western plains to become the "reel" cowboys of motion pictures and the code that they brought with them. This book will make you laugh and cry; it will fill you with excitement; provide insight to the disdain for human and animal care by early Hollywood. This book answers the question, "Where did they come from and how did they do it."

Though Ms. Cary gets quite a few facts wrong (she has the Texas-to-Kansas trail drives starting in 1871), and she glosses over her family's troubles with fame and money, but her graceful writing and her bone-deep affinity for her subject make this essential reading for any lover of the west and western movies. The facts you can get anywhere, but you'll never find a clearer portrait of old-time cowboys, captured as their sunset rides were recorded on film.