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Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

Christopher McDougall

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When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of...

Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and National Park

Don Lago

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The Grand Canyon has long inspired deep emotions and responses. For the Native Americans who lived...

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Oct 24, 2020

Sneak a peek at every book in the MEMOIRS OF H.H. LOMAX Series (Western Historical Fiction) by Preston Lewis Author on my blog, and enter the GIVEAWAY to win a signed copy of First Herd to Abilene and/or North to Alaska by the author.

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2020/10/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-north-to.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS OF NORTH TO ALASKA:
WEALTH AND FAME IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS . . . HIS OWN BAD LUCK IS WHAT STANDS IN HIS WAY.

Swindled out of a mining fortune in Colorado and blamed for an ensuing murder, H. H. Lomax two decades later must finally face up to his past in Skagway, Alaska. Along the way, he encounters legendary madam Mattie Silks, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, novelist Jack London, and a talking dog.

To survive his previous missteps and avoid a prison sentence for theft, Lomax must outshoot infamous Western conman Soapy Smith, outwit an unrelenting Wells Fargo investigator, and outrun Shotgun Jake Townsend, the greatest frontier assassin who never was.

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David McK (3425 KP) rated The Lone Ranger (2013) in Movies

Sep 15, 2019 (Updated Feb 14, 2021)

The Lone Ranger (2013)

2013 | Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Western

6.0

(25 Ratings)

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"Hi Ho Silver away!"

Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Carribean) take on the classic Western for Disney, with Johnny Depp's Tonto pretty much playing the same character as his Captain Jack Sparrow, and with Armie Hammer taking on the role of The Lone Ranger.

Set as an elderly Tonto telling the story to a child visitor in a fairground in 1930s San Fransisco, this takes a while to get going (2hour 20 running time!), with a large part of the story settign the scene and the background to how the Lone Ranger came to be who he is/was.

Indeed, apart from a slight refrain at the beginning the stirring William Tell overture doesn't even get used until near the end of the movie (probably for the best, as an overuse would dilute its impact).

I also have to say that this is probably one for the big screen: the sweeping majestic shots of the Wild West do kind of lose their impact on a smaller TV screen!