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Riding the (Silver Screen) Range

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Ann Snuggs has written an entertaining book that ranges from the early days of western movies and television to the modern day version of the same. I picked up the book because I like trivia and I like to read. I had no real knowledge of the western genre. I enjoyed the gentle introduction and the humor that seeps through in the questions and answers. Ann's genuine love of Westerns comes through the written pages and makes you want to like the shows too. I reccommend this book not only for the people in your life that love Westerns, but also for people who live with people who love Westerns. It would be a terrific gift for the holidays.

Empire Publishing presents "RIDING THE SILVER SCREEN RANGE", an informative record, inclusive page after page is the "Ultimate Western Movie" trivia book --- as author Ann Snuggs goes deeper than a surface enjoyment of watching them on the screen --- Her interest and fascination has led her to produce this book of trivia questions (with answers) about the West as it has been pictured by Hollywood through the years --- if you can answer most of the questions, consider yourself a Western film authority --- If not, the questions with answers will supply a reference source of interesting Western film information --- This book is well researched and should provide Western movie fans with hours of entertainment and vicariously fulfill one's child hood fantasy.

Tables of Contents with page numbers:
A Note from the Publisher - 9
Foreword by Dick Jones - 10
Introduction - 13

I. A Tribute To...
Roy Rogers - 15
Gene Autry - 17

II. A Fistful of Films - 19
Blood on the Moon - 19
Blue Steel - 20
5 Card Stud - 22
For a Few Dollars More - 23
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - 24
High Noon - 26
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 27
The Mask of Zorro - 28
Ride the High Country - 30
Shane - 31

III. The Players - 33
Focus: Johnny Mack Brown - 40
Focus: Allan "Rocky" Lane - 41
Focus: Randolph Scott - 43

IV. The Decades of Film - 45
A. The Thirties - 45
Focus: Stagecoach - 52
B. The Forties - 53
Focus: Bells of Rosarita - 60
focus: Fort Apache - 62
Focus: Zorro's Black Whip - 64
C. The Fifties - 66
Focus: Rio Bravo - 73
D. The Sixties - 75
Focus: The Wild Bunch - 81
E. The Seventies - 83
Focus: The Cowboys - 109
F. The Waning Years - 111
Focus: Tombstone - 116

V. Television - 119
Focus: The Range Rider - 120
Focus: Have Gun Will Travel - 120
Focus: Maverick - 121
Focus: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok - 122
Focus: The Rifleman - 123
Focus: Gunsmoke - 123
Non-Categorized TV Questions - 125

VI. True and False Questions-Mixed Categories - 137

Answers - 143

About the Author - 191

This trivia book was compiled to entertain, as well as to provide information on the Western genre as presented on both the large and small screen --- The Old West fascinated the American public long before films and television, with "dime store" novels published right after the War Between the States --- It was something to escape to --- The cowboy with a big hat and a horse, men with blazing guns on horseback thundering over the hills and through the valleys --- covered wagons creeping across the plains with the everoninous threat of Indian attacks.

It encompasses only the sound era, so that silent heroes such as Art Acord and Fred Thomson are omitted, while those who moved to sound, like Buck Jones, Harry Carey Sr. and Hoot Gibson are included.

One thousand plus questions and answers are in this volume, which is the product of years of devotion to the riders of the silver screen. They will naturally reflect the taste of the authors.

The photos within are re-printed to the honor and appreciation of the following motion picture companies: Western Adventures Pictures, Republic Pictures, Producers Releasing Corporation, Monogram Pictures, Paramount Pictures, United Artists, Grand National Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers Pictures, NBC-TV and Universal Pictures.

This volume is, in part, dedicated to, not only the heroes but also to the stuntmen and riding extras who enriched Saturday afternoons for so many.

A big thank you to Rhonda Lemon and her staff at Empire Publishing, great reading in the days and weeks to come ... I guarantee it! ... now appearing on Amazon and Empire Publishing --- .many tidbits I never knew --- if you're a TV and Movie western fan, this one's for you, don't let it pass you by --- so saddle up and let's get started on the drive ... get 'em up ... move 'em out!

Total Page: 196 pages ~ Empire Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0944019276 ~ (6/26/1999)