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

~ (Author) "This bronco-busting, rough-and-ready stuntman from Stillwater, Oklahoma,proved to be worthy of signing a group of action-packed Western movies and serials..." (more)
Key Phrases: cowboy star, Gene Autry, Johnny Mack Brown, Roy Rogers (more...)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Empire Publishing; First edition (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944019129
• ISBN-13: 978-0944019122
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #513,883 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent gift for the Western movie buff!, August 13, 2001

By	Amanda Odom (Spartanburg, SC United States) - See all my reviews

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!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "for all the B-Western & "A" Western film-buffs to savor", September 6, 2005

By	J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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)

5.0 out of 5 stars FUN TO LOOK AT, September 14, 2008

By	Janet H. Sparrow (Chapel Hill, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.