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...General's dream of a road to Mexico City finally went glimmering, but the D.&R.G.W. became part of a famous system. And the branch which twisted up the sides of the Rio Grande canyon, skirted precipices 1,000 feet above the river, labored across the sagebrush acres of the sun-drenched plateau, climbed 9,000 feet in the air, and finally shot down into whitewashed Antonito, lived on to nurture some fabulous tales: of how they had to hinge the engine's boiler in the middle to get it around the curves; of how the conductor...
...Harvard intellect was shown up over a coast-to-coast hook-up last night when Gerald D. Rosenbloom '44 was crushingly overcome on Professor Quiz' question and answer show. Rosenbloom, commonly known as the "sagebrush of Matthews," could only tie for third, with 191 points out of a possible...
Based on the late, great Western Novelist Zane Grey's last story, Western Union bears the sterling hallmark of sagebrush romance. When Outlaw Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), riding hard to escape a sheriff's posse, stumbles on an injured man, against his better judgment he risks capture by helping the man in to the nearest stagecoach station, then rides off into the night. The man is Engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger), surveying the country west of Omaha for Western Union's next push toward the Pacific...
Melody Ranch (Republic) is no ordinary Gene Autry western. At busy little Republic studios, the cinema's most constant source of sagebrush sagas, the conventional eclogue on the majesty of ranch life has been switched to an offensive against the pitfalls of the city by showing the studio's crack cowboy taking a lacing from the rough, tough Wildhack Boys (Barton MacLane, Joseph Sawyer, Horace MacMahon) after a few months in a Hollywood broadcasting studio have softened up the Autry biceps. It is not a pretty sight...
...saga of a family of farm boys who are dispossessed by a land company and avenge themselves on their fellows by turning frontier bandits, it is good in precisely the ways hundreds of Westerns have been good before: the train robbery, the chase through the sagebrush, the last great scene where false men and true shoot it out until the gun finally drops from the villain's luckless hand. Good shot: the Dalton gang, fully mounted, jumping from a speeding train...