The Last of the Westerners
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Documents the settlement of the American Old West through interviews with three people who helped to settle it--two elderly former cowboys and an elderly woman who had cooked for cowboys. Dramatizes their descriptions of frontier life through recreated scenes, artwork, and still photography and contrasts this with modern interpretations of the era. Supports the notion that in actuality the Old West was not nearly as romantic as contemporary opinion suggests.
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Documents the settlement of the American Old West through interviews with three people who helped to settle it--two elderly former cowboys and an elderly woman who had cooked for cowboys. Dramatizes their descriptions of frontier life through recreated scenes, artwork, and still photography and contrasts this with modern interpretations of the era. Supports the notion that in actuality the Old West was not nearly as romantic as contemporary opinion suggests., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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