Posts from Stumpy in thread „Wild Bill Hickok“

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I think they could've done a better job by, just doing the storyline the same way they did in Wyatt Earp. Start from an early age and progress through his life with all the adventures he had that we've all read about in history books.

The lives of way too many of our historical Western figures have been sensationalized and distorted by what passed for the news media back then. And things really haven't changed all that much in modern times.

So-called "journalists" are, along with politicians and their progenitors the lawyers, my least favorite people in American society. Every time I watch a movie that contains scenes of a news mob hounding a subject, for whatever reason, I get sick to my stomach. I will believe until the day I die that the biased news media, with their constant negative reporting, were primarily responsible for this country "losing" the Vietnam War.

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Back in the late Sixties, I visited Wild Bill's grave site in the mountains just west of Denver.

Alzheimers strikes again. It was not Hickok's grave I visited west of Denver but Buffalo Bill Cody's. I think Hickok is buried near Deadwood, SD, where he was murdered.

Back in the late Sixties, I visited Wild Bill's grave site in the mountains just west of Denver.

At the time, I was stationed in Denver as a military recruiter. When it finally dawned on me that the U.S. government had no intention of winning the Vietnam War, I asked for and received (after a rather heated discussion with my commander) reassignment to another post.

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Watched "Wild Bill", another Jeff Bridges Western about the legendary Wild Bill Hickok. Wasn't bad but had some really weird cinematography which alternated between color and black/white. Don't know how true it portrayed the actual Hickok's life but according to this film, Wild Bill had bad (and worsening) eyesight when he was shot by Jack McCall in Deadwood and he was a frequent smoker of opium.

Two things about this post - I just realized I should have put it in the Western thread instead of this one (old age does that ).

Secondly, the movie contains a very lewd sex act between Wild Bill and Calamity Jane, rendering it unsuitable for viewing by kids.

Watched "Wild Bill", another Jeff Bridges Western about the legendary Wild Bill Hickok. Wasn't bad but had some really weird cinematography which alternated between color and black/white. Don't know how true it portrayed the actual Hickok's life but according to this film, Wild Bill had bad (and worsening) eyesight when he was shot by Jack McCall in Deadwood and he was a frequent smoker of opium.