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Hollywood of the Rockies

Author : Michael J. Spencer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625846525
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood of the Rockies written by Michael J. Spencer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of the twentieth century, movies weren't made in California. As America's film pioneers traveled westward, Colorado became a beacon to them, contributing to the early motion picture business with all the relish and gusto of a western saga. The gorgeous natural scenery was perfect for the country's (and the world's) growing infatuation with the West, turning Colorado itself into a bigger star of the early cinema than any particular actor. Using rare photos and contemporary accounts, writer and filmmaker Michael J. Spencer explores the little-known filmmaking industry that flourished in the Rocky Mountains between 1895 and 1915--west of New York but east of Hollywood.

Durango

Author : Frederic B. Wildfang
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738569758
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Durango written by Frederic B. Wildfang and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storied town of Durango is situated on the farmlands of the Ancestral Puebloans, which later became the hunting grounds for the Southern Utes, in the Animas River Valley of southwestern Colorado. Founded in 1880 as the headquarters of the Silverton branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Durango became the supply depot for gold and silver mines up and down the Western Slope. One of the few old-time cowboy towns in Colorado that retains the vibrancy of a self-supporting downtown of hotels, restaurants, and retail businesses, Durango has worked actively to restore and remodel historic buildings. Enhanced by stories of Spanish explorers, miners, settlers, early entrepreneurs, and the desperadoes of Western lore as well as Hollywood myth, Durango has earned a reputation as one of the Rocky Mountains' favorite travel destinations.

Stetson, Pipe and Boots - Colorado's Cattleman Governor

Author : R.L. Preston
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412239621
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Stetson, Pipe and Boots - Colorado's Cattleman Governor written by R.L. Preston and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a biography about Dan Thornton, a highly successful and well known purebred beef cattle producer (1937-1953) and an effective, flamboyant but controversial Colorado Governor (1951-1955). From humble beginnings as the son of sharecroppers in West Texas, to president of the Texas 4-H Clubs at age 16, to the sale of two Hereford bulls for a world record price ($50,000 each) at the 1945 National Western Stock Show in Denver, CO, to a record Hereford sale in 1947, to winning the Governorship of Colorado as a last minute replacement candidate at 39 years of age, to being largely responsible for the location of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, Dan Thornton's story is an interesting and exciting adventure. He was a friend with unknowns and celebrities alike, including Dwight Eisenhower, Bob Hope, Randolph Scott, Lauritz Melchior and Ben Hogan. He campaigned early for Eisenhower for U.S. President. He was Colorado's super salesman from cherries, beef, uranium, and coal to interstate highways and tourism. His grave marker in Gunnison, CO is inscribed with the tribute, "A Man Who Matched Our Mountains."

Colorado Travel Guide: Experience the history of the Wild West up close * USA

Author : Baktash Vafaei
Publisher : StateGuides
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado Travel Guide: Experience the history of the Wild West up close * USA written by Baktash Vafaei and published by StateGuides. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers you the unique opportunity to experience the captivating past of the Wild West in one of the most fascinating states in the USA. Once the epicenter of America's Wild West, Colorado is rich in stories, legends, and adventures from this exciting era. During your trip through Colorado, you'll have the opportunity to visit historic sites closely associated with the legendary figures of the Wild West, including famous outlaws like Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. Feel the aura of the past in the historic mining towns that were once the center of the silver and gold rushes, such as Leadville and Silverton. A visit to Colorado allows you to relive the era of railroads, when the transcontinental railroad changed the American West forever. In Durango, you can even take a ride on a historic steam locomotive that will take you back in time to the Wild West. Explore the sprawling landscapes once traversed by indigenous people and pioneers, and visit forts and trading posts that played an important role in the expansion of the West. Immerse yourself in the culture of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and learn about their relationship with the land.

West of the Rockies

Author : Daniel Fuchs
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book West of the Rockies written by Daniel Fuchs and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1971 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A female movie star on the decline finds that she and her opportunistic agent want the same things.

The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide

Author : Brian Patton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide written by Brian Patton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142401110
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.

Call Me Lucky

Author : Mike Farris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185740
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Call Me Lucky written by Mike Farris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Do you think you could teach Rock Hudson to talk like you do?” The question came from famed Hollywood director George Stevens, and an affirmative answer propelled Bob Hinkle into a fifty-year career in Hollywood as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to the stars. Along the way, Hinkle helped Rock Hudson, Dennis Hopper, Carroll Baker, and Mercedes McCambridge talk like Texans for the 1956 epic film Giant. He also helped create the character Jett Rink with James Dean, who became a best friend, and he consoled Elizabeth Taylor personally when Dean was killed in a tragic car accident before the film was released. A few years later, Paul Newman asked Hinkle to do for him what he’d done for James Dean. The result was Newman’s powerful portrayal of a Texas no-good in the Academy Award–winning film Hud (1963). Hinkle could—and did—stop by the LBJ Ranch to exchange pleasantries with the president of the United States. He did likewise with Elvis Presley at Graceland. Good friends with Robert Wagner, Hinkle even taught Wagner’s wife Natalie Wood how to throw a rope. He appeared in numerous television series, including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Dragnet, and Walker, Texas Ranger. On a handshake, he worked as country music legend Marty Robbins’s manager, and he helped Evel Knievel rise to fame. From his birth in Brownfield, Texas, to a family so poor “they could only afford a tumbleweed as a pet,” Hinkle went on to gain acclaim in Hollywood. Through it all, he remained the salty, down-to-earth former rodeo cowboy from West Texas who could talk his way into—or out of—most any situation. More than forty photographs, including rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of the stars Hinkle met and befriended along the way, complement this rousing, never-dull memoir.

When Trains Ruled the Rockies

Author : Terry Gainer
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781771603010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book When Trains Ruled the Rockies written by Terry Gainer and published by Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962. Drawn from Terry Gainer's personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and important historical record beckons the reader into the golden age of railway travel in the mountains of western Canada. Complete with a selection of archival photographs, When Trains Ruled the Rockies documents life at the Banff Railway Station and traces the huge role the station played in the local community. The author's own story of growing up at the station winds a thread through the narrative and brings into clear focus Terry's lifelong passion for passenger trains, at one time the most dominant means of transportation for Canadians but sadly an experience that is now fading into history.

Hollywood on Location

Author : Joshua Gleich
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813586259
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood on Location written by Joshua Gleich and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how major studios came to embrace location shooting as a standard procedure.

More Magnificent Mountain Movies

Author :
Publisher : W. Lee Cozad
ISBN 13 : 9780972337236
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book More Magnificent Mountain Movies written by and published by W. Lee Cozad. This book was released on with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Independent Film & Video Monthly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Independent Film & Video Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rocky Mountain Heartland

Author : Duane A. Smith
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550913
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Rocky Mountain Heartland written by Duane A. Smith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lively history of three Rocky Mountain states in the twentieth century. With the sure hand of an experienced writer and the engaging voice of a veteran storyteller, the well-known historian Duane A. Smith recounts the major social, political, and economic events of the period with verve and zest. Smith is thoroughly familiar with his subject and has a genuine enthusiasm for the history of the region. Written with the general reader in mind, Rocky Mountain Heartland will appeal to students, teachers, and “armchair historians” of all ages. This is the colorful saga of how the Old West became the New West. Beginning at the end of the nineteenth century and concluding after the turn of the twenty-first, Rocky Mountain Heartland explains how Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming evolved over the course of the century. Smith is mindful of all the factors that propelled the region: mining, agriculture, water, immigration, tourism, technology, and two world wars. And he points out how the three states responded in varying ways to each of these forces. Although this is a regional story, Smith never loses sight of the national events that influenced events in the region. As Smith skillfully shows, the vast natural resources of the three states attracted optimistic, hopeful Americans intent on getting rich, enjoying the outdoors, or creating new lives for themselves and their families. How they resolved these often-conflicting goals is the modern story of the Rocky Mountain region.

John Colter

Author : Burton Harris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272644
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book John Colter written by Burton Harris and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of Colter's Hell. It was a sulfurous place of hidden fires, smoking pits, and shooting water. And it was real. John Colter is known to history as probably the first white man to discover the region that now includes Yellowstone National Park. In a classic book, first published in 1952, Burton Harris weighs the facts and legends about a man who was dogged by misfortune and "robbed of the just rewards he had earned." This Bison Book edition includes a 1977 addendum by the author and a new introduction by David Lavender, who considers Colter's remarkable winter journey in the light of current scholarship.

Hollywood Musicals Year by Year

Author : Stanley Green
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634007651
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Musicals Year by Year written by Stanley Green and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronologically arranged reference book on the Hollywood musical, with each entry including pertinent facts about a film and a brief essay about the plot and production. Includes hundreds of black & white stills.

Hollywood's America

Author : Stephen P Powers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973357
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's America written by Stephen P Powers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American motion pictures still dominate the world market with an impact that is difficult to measure. Their role in American culture has been a powerful one since the 1930s and is a hallmark of our culture today. Though much has been written about the film industry, there has been very little systematic attention paid to the ideology of its creative elite. How does the outlook of that elite impact on the portrayals of America that appear on the screen? How do their views interact with the demands of the market and the structure of the industry to determine the product that is seen by mass audiences? Hollywood's America is a marvellously rich and careful discussion of these questions. It combines a meticulous systematic content analysis of fifty years of top-grossing films with a history of the changing structure of the industry. To that mixture it adds an in-depth survey of Hollywood's creative elite, comparing them to other leadership groups. The result is a balanced discussion of unique breadth and depth on a subject of national importance.Placing the film industry in the context of American society as a whole, the authors point out that Hollywood's creative leadership impacts the larger society even as it is influenced by that society. The creators of films cannot remove themselves too far from the values of the audiences that they serve. However, the fact that films are made by a relatively small number of people, who, as the authors demonstrate, tend to share a common outlook, means that, over time, motion pictures have had an undeniable impact on the beliefs, lifestyles, and action of Americans.This study contributes to the debate over the role and influence of those who create and distribute the products of mass culture in the United States.The book also contains a devastating critique of the poststructuralist theories that currently dominate academic film criticism, demonstrating how they fail in their attempt to explain the political significance of motion pictures.

The Last Ridge

Author : Mckay Jenkins
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307432378
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Last Ridge written by Mckay Jenkins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939–40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet army to its knees, an amateur skier named Charles Minot “Minnie” Dole convinced the United States Army to let him recruit an extraordinary assortment of European expatriates, wealthy ski bums, mountaineers, and thrill-seekers and form them into a unique band of Alpine soldiers. These men endured nearly three years of grueling training in the Colorado Rockies and in the process set new standards for both soldiering and mountaineering. The newly forged 10th Mountain Division finally faced combat in the winter of 1945, in Italy’s Apennine Mountains, against the seemingly unbreakable German fortifications north of the Gothic Line. There, they planned and executed what is still regarded as the most daring series of nighttime mountain attacks in U.S. military history, taking Mount Belvedere and the sheer, treacherous face of Riva Ridge to smash the linchpin of the German army’s lines. Drawing on unique cooperation from veterans of the 10th Mountain Division and a vast archive of unpublished letters and documents, The Last Ridge is written with enormous warmth, energy, and honesty. This is one of the most captivating stories of World War II, a blend of Band of Brothers and Into Thin Air. It is a story of young men asked to do the impossible, and succeeding.