An introduction to seventy years of westerns -- The beginnings-and Broncho Billy -- Pioneers of an art: D.W. Griffith and Thomas H. Ince -- William S. Hart -- John Ford: a half-century of horse operas -- The pre-1920s-and Tom Mix -- The first epics -- Stars of the twenties -- The coming of sound -- The "B" boom -- The thirties -- The forties-a peak of popularity -- The fifties-and radical changes -- The sixties: westerns, westerns everywhere, but ...
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