Apr

6

no better way to while away the market night time hours than listening to 100 Great Radio Shows, mainly westerns, detective stories, comedy, and suspense. only 2 minutes of commercials for a 30-minute show. highly recommended.

along with The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, and 10 Gunsmoke radio shows this has been my night time listening lately. so much quality here. so educational. so resonant.

Elmer Kelton who won the spur award 7 times and wrote the best western in The Time It Never Rained was forced to make ends meet in his last days by speaking to Elder Hostels. He talks about the plight of Western versus Eastern in Elmer Kelton Tells the Truth: His Best Talks on the West, Cowboys & Writing.

He Created a New Kind of Western

a good bio of a great man. but the one thing I demur is that Kelton, in listing the best Westerns, leaves out Jack Schafer's Monte Walsh, which to me is the second best western of all time.

the third greatest western writer: John Meston. all his scripts for Gunsmoke are masterpieces.

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