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Post by harpskiddie on Aug 21, 2007 17:23:00 GMT -6
Bugles in the Afternoon is, I feel, pretty good. So is No Survivors. Yellowhair falls short of Henry's other work. Custer's Last Stand I've never read.
A Distant Trumpet was actually a very solid novel, while the movie, with its cast top-heavy with then-current TV idols [both male and female] didn't make the grade, as far as I am concerned.
Gordie, it's another tequila sunrise, stirring slowly 'cross the sky - she said "goodbye"............
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Post by harpskiddie on Aug 22, 2007 0:19:20 GMT -6
I was just thinking, which I seem to do from time to time and at odd moments - wasn't Yellowhair by Clay Fisher, who also wrote Yellowstone Kelly?
Gordie, I don't want your lonely mansions, with a tear in every room - all I want's the love you promised beneath the haloed moon...........................................................
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Post by KarlKoz on Aug 22, 2007 6:52:12 GMT -6
Aren't Clay Fisher and Will Henry the same person?
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Post by markland on Aug 22, 2007 7:43:39 GMT -6
Aren't Clay Fisher and Will Henry the same person? Yes, and neither is his correct name. He is/was a Kansas City resident. Billy P.S. Hunk, thanks for the clarification. I was going by memory and remembered almost two of them. Was it Horgan or Hogan? Again, memory fails.
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Post by lbhdan on Aug 22, 2007 10:07:38 GMT -6
Was it Horgan or Hogan? Again, memory fails. Paul Horgan is the author ( A Distant Trumpet, etc. etc.); Paul Hogan is the actor ( Crocodile Dundee, etc. etc.). dan
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Post by markland on Aug 22, 2007 12:11:08 GMT -6
Was it Horgan or Hogan? Again, memory fails. Paul Horgan is the author ( A Distant Trumpet, etc. etc.); Paul Hogan is the actor ( Crocodile Dundee, etc. etc.). dan That's why it sounded so darned familiar!!! *retreats while singing, "If I only had a brain"*
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Post by harpskiddie on Aug 22, 2007 13:19:23 GMT -6
Billy:
Did Henry, under his real name, ever teach at the University of Oklahoma?
Gordie, if you go with me, you will never be hungry; if you go with me, you will never be cold. Good food for your belly, warm skins for your bed - if you go with me.............................................
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Post by markland on Aug 22, 2007 16:29:22 GMT -6
Billy: Did Henry, under his real name, ever teach at the University of Oklahoma? Gordie, if you go with me, you will never be hungry; if you go with me, you will never be cold. Good food for your belly, warm skins for your bed - if you go with me............................................. Darned if I know! However his real name was Henry Wilson Allen and he was born circa 1912 in Jackson Co., Missouri....the stomping grounds of Quantrell, the James, the Youngers and many other bad-a**es. However, Wiki gives no indication that he ever taught at OK but there is no telling what adjunct/visiting novelist-type jobs he did once he became successful. Here is the Wiki link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wilson_AllenBilly
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Sept 9, 2007 11:13:15 GMT -6
So I take a short vacation and you all quit on me huh? OK, I know you are all agog to know so Book 2 is 'Little Big Man' by Thomas Berger. Now how about the question of good or bad writing? How do the novels listed compare with the Larry McMurtry quartet of 'Dead Man's Walk', 'Comanche Moon', 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Streets of Laredo' or the Wim Blevins novel 'Stone Song' about the life of His Crazy Horse? Should those among us who are budding novelists of this genre be looking at any of the originally listed authors as role models and if not, why not?
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