Sam Peckinpah directing Stella Stevens in THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE ( 1970)
"Wild Bill" Hickok in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, 1876
William S. Hart and Kathleen O'Connor in WILD BILL HICKOK ( 1923)
Gordon Elliott, who starred in THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL HICKOK ( 1938)
Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane and Helen Burgess as Louisa Cody in THE PLAINSMAN ( 1936)
Wyatt Earp in a photograph taken circa 1885
Jesse James in a photograph taken circa 1879
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in 1872
Tyrone Power as Jesse James in JESSE JAMES ( 1939)
Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp and V ictor Mature as Doc Holliday in MY DARLING CLEMENTINE ( 1946)
William Wellman directing Warner Baxter and Ann Loring in THE ROBIN HOOD OF EL DORADO ( 1936)
Two views of Custer
Ella Watson, Cattle Kate," in 1889
Jane Fonda in CAT BALLOU ( 1965)
Hollywood's conception of the frontier prostitute in THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB ( 1967)
Scenes from THUNDER MOUNTAIN ( 1947), with Tim Holt and Martha Hyer
Betty Miles, Ken Maynard, Robert Tansey (producer/director), and Hoot Gibson from the Trail Blazer series
Peggy Stewart and Sunset Carson in a publicity still from ALIAS BILLY THE KID ( 1946)
Julia Thayer in THE PAINTED STALLION ( 1937)
Ronald Reagan and Barbara Stanwyck in CATTLE QUEEN OF MON- TANA ( 1954)
The Pocahontas stereotype
Jim Thorpe as a Hollywood Indian
The Hollywood Indian
Hollywood's version of "the truth at last" in SOLDIER BLUE ( 1970)
Burial of the dead at Wounded Knee, 1891
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Publication Information: Book Title: The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western. Contributors: Jon Tuska - author. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1985. Page Number: xii.
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