Westerns like Roy Rogers/Fury/Sky King
Dates: 4/11/01,5:44 PM through 4/19/01,7:35 AM (9 postings)
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FROM: Lucy Lockley <[removed]@mail.win.org>
REC'D: 4/11/01, 5:44 PM
Okay, but where's the list for people who kind of liked Roy Rogers, really
liked Fury and Sky King? (I did try to read Wildwood Boys a while back
and like the review says it is intensely violent. I almost never quit on
a book, but that was one I did quit on.)
Does anyone have some suggestions that might help? We 'am' actually
looking for book titles to recommend not more movies or TV shows to view.
The idea is for the RATeam members to 'read' a western.
Any help is appreciated and much thanks in advance.
Lucy M. Lockley Phone: 636/441.2300, Ext. 1563
Collection Development Manager FAX: 636/441.3132
St. Charles City-County Library District
425 Spencer Road
P.O. Box 529 e-mail: [removed]@mail.win.org
St. Peters, MO 63376-0529 Library website: www.win.org/library
"Demons after money!?! Whatever happened to the still beating heart
of a virgin?! No one has ANY standards anymore!"
___ Giles ('Buffy, the Vampire Slayer')
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 4/12/01, 2:03 AM
<<
Okay, but where's the list for people who kind of liked Roy Rogers, really
liked Fury and Sky King? (I did try to read Wildwood Boys a while back
and like the review says it is intensely violent. I almost never quit on
a book, but that was one I did quit on.)
Does anyone have some suggestions that might help? We 'am' actually
looking for book titles to recommend not more movies or TV shows to view.
The idea is for the RATeam members to 'read' a western.
Any help is appreciated and much thanks in advance.
>>
Fury was, of course, a television show. It starred a very young Peter
Graves, if I remember correctly. I don't know who wrote it. However, there
was another show on at the same time (approximately): My Friend Flicka, which
was based on the book by Mary O'Hara. I checked Amazon.com and there are
sequels, as well, i.e., Thunderhead, Son of Flicka. Flicka was a horse, btw.
In "Flicka," a young boy with a domineering, ex-military father is always
messing up - until his mother convinces the father to give the boy a horse
to be responsible for. (Gleaned from the many glowing reviews on Amazon.com)
Your patron might also be interested in Walter Farley's Black Stallion, et
al, Enid Bagnold's National Velvet, Marguerite Henry's Misty of Chincoteague,
the Lassie books by Terhune, and Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James. There's
also The Hopalong Cassidy books by Clarrene E. Mulford, which were also the
basis for a television series - but reviews (Amazon again) seem to suggest
that the books were much better than the series.
As far as Sky King goes - this was a contemporary western where the mode of
transportation was an airplane that the hero flew. There were horses too, of
course.
I hope some of the above interests your patron. I'm having a major flair of
nostalgia just about now. <g>
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian
FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 4/12/01, 9:59 AM
Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>
>>> [removed]@mail.win.org 04/11/01 05:43PM >>>
Our RATeam are reading in the various genres here at St. Charles
City-County Library and we currently are concentrating on 'Westerns" which
is a weak area for many of the staff. Back in January (starting about
1/11/01 and going until 1/19/01, I think) there was a great thread running
under the Subject line of "Clean Westerns" which I had saved (in
anticipation of the time when we would be working/reading on Westerns) and
have been forwarding those out to my fellow team members but then I got the
following:
Okay, but where's the list for people who kind of liked Roy Rogers, really
liked Fury and Sky King? (I did try to read Wildwood Boys a while back
and like the review says it is intensely violent. I almost never quit on
a book, but that was one I did quit on.)
Does anyone have some suggestions that might help? We 'am' actually
looking for book titles to recommend not more movies or TV shows to view.
The idea is for the RATeam members to 'read' a western.
Any help is appreciated and much thanks in advance.
Lucy M. Lockley Phone: 636/441.2300, Ext. 1563
Collection Development Manager FAX: 636/441.3132
St. Charles City-County Library District
425 Spencer Road
P.O. Box 529 e-mail: [removed]@mail.win.org=20
St. Peters, MO 63376-0529 Library website: www.win.org/library
"Demons after money!?! Whatever happened to the still beating heart
of a virgin?! No one has ANY standards anymore!"
___ Giles ('Buffy, the Vampire Slayer')
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/12/01, 11:46 AM
>From: [removed]@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Westerns like Roy Rogers/Fury/Sky King
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 02:59:52 EDT
>
There's
>also The Hopalong Cassidy books by Clarrene E. Mulford, which were also the
>basis for a television series - but reviews (Amazon again) seem to suggest
>that the books were much better than the series.
>
They are. William Boyd's version was deliberately packaged as "B" Westerns.
The original Mulfords are fast-moving, authentic, slam-bang books full of
cowboy humor. They are also currently being reissued in paper from Tor.
Get them if you can, you won't regret it. (Can you tell this is an old
collector talking?)
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 4/12/01, 1:41 PM
<<
They are. William Boyd's version was deliberately packaged as "B" Westerns.
The original Mulfords are fast-moving, authentic, slam-bang books full of
cowboy humor. They are also currently being reissued in paper from Tor.
Get them if you can, you won't regret it. (Can you tell this is an old
collector talking?) >>
Thanks for the heads-up.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian, also a collector
FROM: Alicia Graybill <[removed]@rand.lcl.lib.ne.us>
REC'D: 4/13/01, 12:29 PM
FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 4/13/01, 1:33 PM
Sorry about mis-attribituing Lassie to Terhune. Sigh. And have we mentioned
"Silver Chief" lately?
There was also a neat Disney Mickey Mouse Club serial on about the same time
- Corky & White Shadow. White Shadow was the dog; Corky was "the girl." I
don't know if it was based on an existing book, or just a Disney creation.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian
In a message dated 4/13/2001 1:22:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[removed]@rand.lcl.lib.ne.us writes:
<<
> the Lassie books by Terhune, and Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James.
There's
Sacrilege! Albert Payson Terhune never wrote about Lassie. Everyone knows
he wrote about Sunnybank Lad, Lady, Bruce, Wolf, Treve, and so on and so
forth. :) >>
FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/17/01, 10:02 AM
>From: [removed]@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Westerns like Roy Rogers/Fury/Sky King
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:24:54 EDT
>
>Mea Culpa!
>
>Sorry about mis-attribituing Lassie to Terhune. Sigh. And have we
>mentioned
>"Silver Chief" lately?
>
>
Also "Bob, Son of Battle," by Alfred Ollivant, another oldie-but-goodie
about a collie of the British Isles, in this case Scotland.
Speaking of animal books, Glenn Balch wrote a long list of horse tales,
including one, "Indian Paint," which I remember fondly. Col. S. P. Meek and
Joseph Lippincott are other past masters of the YA animal tale. Then, of
course, there's Ernest Thompson Seton. And another one I'm trying to
remember and can't...maybe it will come to me later on today...
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/19/01, 7:35 AM
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