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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 10 general entries.
Special Topics
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Westerns
| Let's end with a question for hard core Louis L'Amour fans: In the storey "Galloway" who is Galloway's brother? | Do You Read Westerns?
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Flagan. Louis L'Amour, besides being a prolific writer of "Westerns" has also published non-fiction and poetry.
| Louis L'Amour wrote seventeen novels and two short stories about this frontier family. Who are they? | Do You Read Westerns?
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The Sacketts. In the "Sackett" series Louis L'Amour traces this fictional family from their arrival in America in the 1700 through the end of the "Wild West" era.
| "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" is from what novel that later became a movie? | Do You Read Westerns?
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was written by B. Traven. Interestingly nobody knows for sure who B. Traven really was.
| Speaking of Hopalong Cassidy, Clarence E. Mulford wrote 28 Hopalong novels. Who wrote the other four books? | Do You Read Westerns?
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Louis L'Amour. William Boyd played Hoppy in the moves and on television and radio.
| Who was Hopalong Cassidy's (remember we are talking about the books) regular side kick? | Do You Read Westerns?
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Nobody, he was a loner.. Hopalong Cassidy, Hoppy to his friends, rode for the Bar 20 ranch.
| Jack Shaffer wrote a wonderful western novel, seen through the eyes of young Joey Starrett, that was made into a movie staring Alan Ladd in the title role. Who was this title character? | Do You Read Westerns?
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Shane. Jack Shaffer also wrote "Monte Walsh" about an aging cowboy who sees that the world no longer has room for him or his ways.
| Was the heroic frontiersman who appears in the Zane Grey's "Ohio River Trilogy" a real person? | Do You Read Westerns?
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Yes. Wetzel was an implacable foe with a hatred for all Indians. The Indians named him "Death Wind" and feared him above all other frontiersmen.
| Who is the heroic frontiersman who appears in all of the Zane Grey "Ohio River Trilogy" books? | Do You Read Westerns?
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Lew Wetzel. Lew Wetzel was a real person. He, his brother and their father were attacked by Indians along the Ohio River near Fish Creek, Va. Lew was the only survivor.
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