While we are on this subject, it is a mystery to me why so many people love the film "Rio Bravo" -- I mean it is fun, but you would think it was Shakespeare the way people go on about it.

Meanwhile, the worst worst Western novel ever is James Fenimore Cooper's the Prairie. Everything about it the critical theoreticians and historians say about it is wrong: it is insanely boring, and ridiculous.



yours,

Peter T.