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The Round-Up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years

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I bought this gift for my Dad. He is extremely difficult to buy for and hardly ever gets excited, but he LOVED this book! He couldn't put it down!

Empire Publishing presents "The Round-up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years", reporting in one short paragraph the profile on each page with a photograph, synopsis of their films, career, birth dates and date they left us...compiled and edited by Donald R. Key featuring 300 cowboy stars, sidekicks, heroines, villains and character actors.

Tables of Contents with page numbers:
A Word From the Publisher - 8
Acknowledgments - 10
Foreword by Monte Hale - 12
Art Acord - 14 (first actor on the roster)
Tony Young - 312 (last actor on the roster)
Let's Not Forget - 313
Afterword By Neil Summers - 316

Many of the stars within this publication gave us hours of entertainment...their careers of excellence and dedication to the craft of acting...the audiences who were so faithful for several decades...all the cast members took their job very seriously and the audience would not settle for anything less than the best...and it showed up there on the big screen.

Would like to close this review with a thought from Monte Hale, it goes something like this:
Life is Like a Journey,
Taken on a train
With a pair of travelers at each window pane,
I may sit beside you the whole journey through,
Or I may sit elsewhere, never knowing you,
But if fate should mark us to sit here side by side,
Let's be pleasant travelers, because it's such a short ride.

Those are some touching words from Monte Hale, thank you Donald R. Key for printing this verse.

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, move 'em out!

Total Page: 320 pages ~ Empire Publishing 0-944019-12-9 ~ (10/01/1995)

i thought that the pictures where quite good but a little more could have been written in the small boxes and it needs to be updated

I bought this book for my husband for his birthday. He has always been a fan of old Westerns and has been to many Film Festivals, has met many of the actors and has a lot of the books. There is not a lot of new information, but beautiful, large pictures (it is a Pictorial history.) He loves it!

A good book to go back and look for your favorite western stars from long ago. It has nice full page photographs if you can't remember a name and are looking to find someone.

My husband and I both have enjoyed this book. Excellent pictures. I would like to have seen more information about the actors; I do understand that to have done that would probably have cut down on the pictures. If you are a western fan, this book is a must. The list in the back of additional books looks very complete.

I bought this book for my husband who likes to watch old westerns on TV. The book is full of pictures of old cowboy actors from the 40s & 50s.