Westerns & the Old West
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I post almost exclusively about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films/pop culture. I do drawings too. 🍉
Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏
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Happy Birthday to the late John Belushi, born 77 years ago today
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Happy Birthday to the late John Belushi, born 77 years ago today
Happy Birthday to the late Ernest Borgnine, born Ermes Effron Borgnino 109 years ago today
January 24, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Ernest Borgnine, born Ermes Effron Borgnino 109 years ago today
Ernest Borgnine on the secret to his longevity:
January 24, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Ernest Borgnine on the secret to his longevity:
Happy Birthday to the late Henry King, born 140 years ago today
January 24, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Henry King, born 140 years ago today
Happy Birthday to the late John Browning, born 171 years ago today. You invented like 4 or 5 of the guns used in The Wild Bunch, so you're ok in my book
January 24, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Happy Birthday to the late John Browning, born 171 years ago today. You invented like 4 or 5 of the guns used in The Wild Bunch, so you're ok in my book
Happy Birthday to the late Dan Duryea, born 119 years ago today
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Happy Birthday to the late Dan Duryea, born 119 years ago today
Happy Birthday to the late, great Randolph Scott, born George Randolph Scott 128 years ago today
January 23, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Happy Birthday to the late, great Randolph Scott, born George Randolph Scott 128 years ago today
Happy 51st Birthday to Balthazar Getty, born Paul Balthazar Getty
January 23, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Happy 51st Birthday to Balthazar Getty, born Paul Balthazar Getty
Happy 61st Birthday to Diane Lane
January 23, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Happy 61st Birthday to Diane Lane
Happy Birthday to the late John Hurt, born 86 years ago today
January 22, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Happy Birthday to the late John Hurt, born 86 years ago today
Happy Birthday to the late Bill Bixby, born Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III 92 years ago today
January 22, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Happy Birthday to the late Bill Bixby, born Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III 92 years ago today
Happy 73rd Birthday to Jim Jarmusch. I know I recently posted this 🧵 where Rudy Wurlitzer, John Lurie, Alex Cox & I accuse you of being a thieving snake, but I still do like a bunch of your movies.
Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏
Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏
While Dead Man is a unique take on the Western, its basic premise (protagonist gets shot in the heart, is considered a dead man, gets chased by lawmen/bounty hunters & in the end floats out to the ocean in a canoe to die) was lifted from Rudy Wurlitzer's late 70s script Zebulon:
January 22, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Happy 73rd Birthday to Jim Jarmusch. I know I recently posted this 🧵 where Rudy Wurlitzer, John Lurie, Alex Cox & I accuse you of being a thieving snake, but I still do like a bunch of your movies.
Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏
Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏
Happy Birthday to the late Robert E. Howard, born 120 years ago today. In addition to creating Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, etc, he also wrote a bunch of Westerns
January 22, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Happy Birthday to the late Robert E. Howard, born 120 years ago today. In addition to creating Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, etc, he also wrote a bunch of Westerns
Gunfighter Luke Short was born 172 years ago today
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Gunfighter Luke Short was born 172 years ago today
Here's a 🧵on Rudy Wurlitzer lifting dialogue & more from Eve Ball's 1969 book Ma'am Jones of the Pecos for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It's based on interviews with the Jones family, who knew Billy the Kid, but written like a novel, so the dialogue is likely Ball's:
January 22, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Here's a 🧵on Rudy Wurlitzer lifting dialogue & more from Eve Ball's 1969 book Ma'am Jones of the Pecos for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It's based on interviews with the Jones family, who knew Billy the Kid, but written like a novel, so the dialogue is likely Ball's:
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While Dead Man is a unique take on the Western, its basic premise (protagonist gets shot in the heart, is considered a dead man, gets chased by lawmen/bounty hunters & in the end floats out to the ocean in a canoe to die) was lifted from Rudy Wurlitzer's late 70s script Zebulon:
January 20, 2026 at 6:29 AM
While Dead Man is a unique take on the Western, its basic premise (protagonist gets shot in the heart, is considered a dead man, gets chased by lawmen/bounty hunters & in the end floats out to the ocean in a canoe to die) was lifted from Rudy Wurlitzer's late 70s script Zebulon:
Happy 56th Birthday to Skeet Ulrich, born Bryan Ray Trout
January 20, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Happy 56th Birthday to Skeet Ulrich, born Bryan Ray Trout
Happy Birthday to the late, great Slim Whitman, born Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. 103 years ago today
January 20, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Happy Birthday to the late, great Slim Whitman, born Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. 103 years ago today
Happy Birthday to the late DeForest Kelley, born Jackson DeForest Kelley 106 years ago
January 20, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Happy Birthday to the late DeForest Kelley, born Jackson DeForest Kelley 106 years ago
While Dead Man is a unique take on the Western, its basic premise (protagonist gets shot in the heart, is considered a dead man, gets chased by lawmen/bounty hunters & in the end floats out to the ocean in a canoe to die) was lifted from Rudy Wurlitzer's late 70s script Zebulon:
January 20, 2026 at 6:29 AM
While Dead Man is a unique take on the Western, its basic premise (protagonist gets shot in the heart, is considered a dead man, gets chased by lawmen/bounty hunters & in the end floats out to the ocean in a canoe to die) was lifted from Rudy Wurlitzer's late 70s script Zebulon:
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In True Grit, Ned Pepper uses a Colt New Service revolver with a fake ejector rod attached to the side of the barrel so that it resembles a Colt Single Action Army. Now why the devil would they do such a thing? Well, the New Service was double action & easier to fire quickly...
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
In True Grit, Ned Pepper uses a Colt New Service revolver with a fake ejector rod attached to the side of the barrel so that it resembles a Colt Single Action Army. Now why the devil would they do such a thing? Well, the New Service was double action & easier to fire quickly...
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In Silverado, Danny Glover has a forearm-less Winchester '66 meant to look like a Henry. His movie dad has a real Henry & Glover grabs both in a silly pose like he's Isaac Hayes in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. '66s are often used because the Henry's loading mechanism pinches when firing a lot of rounds
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
In Silverado, Danny Glover has a forearm-less Winchester '66 meant to look like a Henry. His movie dad has a real Henry & Glover grabs both in a silly pose like he's Isaac Hayes in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. '66s are often used because the Henry's loading mechanism pinches when firing a lot of rounds
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Here's pt 2 to my🧵on Western movie gun modifications. In pt 1, I went over the ways Colt Single Action Armys & Winchester '92s were altered to look like earlier gun models
This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications
This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Here's pt 2 to my🧵on Western movie gun modifications. In pt 1, I went over the ways Colt Single Action Armys & Winchester '92s were altered to look like earlier gun models
This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications
This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications
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The other advantage is that the Colt SAA is great with blanks, specifically the 5-in-1 round which can be used in 5 different Western gun models in 3 different chambers: .38-40 & .44-40 in either Colt or Winchester & .45 Colt. Ease with blanks is the most important factor for movie guns...
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The other advantage is that the Colt SAA is great with blanks, specifically the 5-in-1 round which can be used in 5 different Western gun models in 3 different chambers: .38-40 & .44-40 in either Colt or Winchester & .45 Colt. Ease with blanks is the most important factor for movie guns...
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Because of this, 2 guns became ubiquitous to the Western genre: the Colt Single Action Army & the Winchester '92. The Colt SAA stayed in production from 1873-1941 when the company decided to focus on WWII. This meant that there was an almost endless supply of SAAs floating around...
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Because of this, 2 guns became ubiquitous to the Western genre: the Colt Single Action Army & the Winchester '92. The Colt SAA stayed in production from 1873-1941 when the company decided to focus on WWII. This meant that there was an almost endless supply of SAAs floating around...