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West Of The Pecos (novel)
West of the Pecos may refer to: * Trans-Pecos, the area of West Texas that is west of the Pecos River * West of the Pecos Museum, Pecos, Texas * West of the Pecos Rodeo, Pecos, Texas, claimant for first rodeo Arts and entertainment * ''West of the Pecos'' (1922 film), a silent Western film written, directed, and starring Neal Hart as hero Jack Laramie * West of the Pecos, a 1937 novel by Zane Grey with hero Pecos Smith, first published as a serial beginning in 1931 in ''The American Magazine'' ** ''West of the Pecos'' (1934 film), a Western film adaptation starring Richard Dix ** ''West of the Pecos'' (1945 film), a Western film adaptation starring Robert Mitchum * ''West of the Pecos'', a 1971 play about Roy Bean by Tim Kelly * ''West of Pecos'', a book of the "Sundown Riders" series by Ralph Compton See also * Judge Roy Bean Jr. (1825–1903), self-described as "The Only Law West of the Pecos" * '' West of Hot Dog'', Stan Laurel 1924 movie spoof of the 1922 film ''West of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trans-Pecos
The Trans-Pecos, as originally defined in 1887 by the Texas geologist Robert T. Hill, is the portion of Texas that lies west of the Pecos River. The term is considered synonymous with Far West Texas, a subdivision of West Texas. The Trans-Pecos is part of the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest desert in North America. It is the most mountainous and arid portion of the state, and most of its vast area (outside the city of El Paso) is sparsely populated. Among the nine counties in the region are the five largest counties by area in Texas and eight of the eleven largest in the state. The area is known for the natural environment of the Big Bend and the gorge of the Rio Grande, part of which has been designated a National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. With the notable exceptions of Big Bend Ranch State Park, Big Bend National Park and the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, the vast majority of the Trans-Pecos region consists of privately owned ranchland. However, most of the region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In West Texas
This article was split from List of museums in Texas The list of museums in West Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also included are nonprofit art galleries and exhibit spaces. West Texas West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semiarid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas. The counties included are Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Brewster, Brown, Callahan, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dawson, Dickens, Eastland, Ector, El Paso, Fisher, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Rodeo
History of rodeo tracks the lineage of modern Western rodeo. Early history of rodeo Rodeo was the Mexican procedure used to select animals from the wild cattle, prevent them from running amok and cause destruction, prevent them from going wild again by accustoming them to the presence of humans and protect them from cattle rustlers. The rodeo becomes the cattle's natural home in the wild. The first rodeo ordinance was passed and implemented by Viceroy Luís de Velasco on October 16, 1551, but only for the Toluca Valley and surrounding areas in Central Mexico. Faced with the rapid increase of cattle, the indigenous people who were being affected complained. Viceroy Velasco received the news that the crops of the natives of the towns of the Matlatzinco Valley (today the Valley of Toluca) had been affected by the cattle and ordered that no more animals be kept on the ranch than could be sustained on their own on the granted lands. In turn, he ordered that there be enough vaquer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of The Pecos (1922 Film)
West of the Pecos may refer to: * Trans-Pecos, the area of West Texas that is west of the Pecos River * West of the Pecos Museum, Pecos, Texas * West of the Pecos Rodeo, Pecos, Texas, claimant for first rodeo Arts and entertainment * ''West of the Pecos'' (1922 film), a silent Western film written, directed, and starring Neal Hart as hero Jack Laramie * West of the Pecos, a 1937 novel by Zane Grey with hero Pecos Smith, first published as a serial beginning in 1931 in ''The American Magazine'' ** ''West of the Pecos'' (1934 film), a Western film adaptation starring Richard Dix ** ''West of the Pecos'' (1945 film), a Western film adaptation starring Robert Mitchum * ''West of the Pecos'', a 1971 play about Roy Bean by Tim Kelly * ''West of Pecos'', a book of the "Sundown Riders" series by Ralph Compton See also * Judge Roy Bean Jr. (1825–1903), self-described as "The Only Law West of the Pecos" * '' West of Hot Dog'', Stan Laurel 1924 movie spoof of the 1922 film ''West of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Hart
Neal Hart (April 7, 1879 – April 2, 1949) was an American actor and director of the silent era. Biography Hart was born in Staten Island, New York. Before he began working in films, he was a city marshal, cowboy, and stage driver. He worked in entertainment as a member of a wild-west show. Hart appeared in 125 films between 1916 and 1949. He also directed 23 films between 1919 and 1928. Until 1920 he worked at Universal as an actor, an assistant to director George Marshall, and a scenario writer. He went from Universal to Pinnacle Studios in 1920, adding producing to his writing and acting as he continued to work in Western films through the 1920s. On April 2, 1949, Hart died at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. He was a distant cousin of William S. Hart who is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y. Partial filmography * '' Stampede in the Night'' (1916 short) * ''The Night Riders'' (1916 short) * '' The Passing of Hell's Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. '' Riders of the Purple Sage'' (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the success of his printed works, his books have second lives and continuing influence adapted for films and television. His novels and short stories were adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre''.Hulse 2007, pp. vii–x. Biography Early life Pearl Zane Grey was born January 31, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. His birth name may have originated from newspaper descriptions of Queen Victoria's mourning clothes as "pearl grey." He was the fourth of five children born to Alice "Allie" Josephine Zane, whose English Quaker immigrant ancestor Robert Zane came to the American colonies in 1673, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of The Pecos (1934 Film)
''West of the Pecos'' is a 1934 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Richard Dix and Martha Sleeper. The screenplay was written Milton Krims and John Twist, who adapted the serial of the same name by Zane Grey, appearing beginning in ''The American Magazine'' in 1931 and later as the 1937 novel. The film, which is thought to be lost, was remade as ''West of the Pecos (1945 film), West of the Pecos'' in 1945. References External links * Films produced by Cliff Reid Films directed by Phil Rosen RKO Pictures films American Western (genre) films 1934 Western (genre) films 1934 films American black-and-white films 1930s American films {{1930s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of The Pecos (1945 Film)
''West of the Pecos'' is a 1945 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Edward Killy and starring Robert Mitchum and Barbara Hale. It is the second film version of Zane Grey's novel, previously made in 1934 and also titled ''West of the Pecos (1934 film), West of the Pecos'' starring Richard Dix. It is no relation to the 1922 silent film of the same name. The previous year, Mitchum had played the lead in another Zane Grey movie with the same screenwriter (Norman Houston (screenwriter), Norman Houston) and director titled ''Nevada (1944 film), Nevada'', also featuring Richard Martin (RKO actor), Richard Martin as comical sidekick Chito Rafferty. ''Nevada'' had been Mitchum's first movie as a leading man and the opening titles began with "Introducing Bob Mitchum as Jim Lacy". Plot Colonel Lambreth's health is poor, so daughter Rill persuades him to leave his Chicago meat-packing business behind and move to their Texas cattle ranch. Her fiancé, lawyer Clyde Corbin, stay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Kelly (playwright)
Tim Kelly (October 2, 1931 – December 7, 1998) was an American playwright who wrote over three hundred plays. Biography Kelly was born in Saugus, Massachusetts on October 2, 1931. He graduated from Emerson College with a bachelor's degree and received a master's degree in play-writing from Yale University. His first stage play was ''Widow's Walk,'' published in the 1960s. Other early plays include ''A Darker Flower'' (New York's Pocket Theatre), ''The Trunk and All That Jazz'' (Boston's Image Theatre), and ''Die Blum'' (Germany). He wrote under a variation of his own name (Tim Kelly), and also at least four pseudonyms (Vera Morris, J. Moriarty, Robert Swift, Keith Jackson). His publishers include Samuel French, Pioneer Drama Service and Contemporary Drama Service. He wrote over three hundred plays, which have been performed by the Royal Court Rep, the Studio Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Los Angeles Actor's Theatre, the Aspen Playwright's Festival, and the Seattle Repertory C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Compton
Ralph Compton (April 11, 1934 – September 16, 1998) was an American writer of western fiction. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. Mr. Compton began his writing career with a notable work, ''The Goodnight Trail'', which was chosen as a finalist for the Western Writers of America "Medicine Pipe Bearer Award" bestowed upon the "Best Debut Novel". He was also the author of the ''Sundown Rider'' series and the ''Border Empire'' series. In the last decade of his life, he authored more than two dozen novels, some of which made it onto the ''USA Today'' bestseller list for fiction. Ralph Compton died in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 64. Since his death, Signet Books The New American Library (also known as NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948. Its initial focus was affordable paperback reprints of classics and sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Bean
Phantly Roy Bean Jr. (c. 1825 – March 16, 1903) was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. After his death, fictional Western films and books cast him as a hanging judge, although he is known to have sentenced only two men to hang, one of whom escaped. Early life Roy Bean was born circa 1825 in Mason County, Kentucky, and was the youngest of five children (four sons and a daughter) of Phantly Roy Bean Sr. (November 21, 1804 – June 13, 1844) and the former Anna Henderson Gore. The family was extremely poor and at age sixteen Bean left home to ride a flatboat to New Orleans, hoping to find work. After getting into trouble in New Orleans, Bean fled to San Antonio, Texas, to join his elder brother Sam. Samuel Gore "Sam" Bean (1819–1903), who had ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of Hot Dog
''West of Hot Dog'' is a 1924 American comedy film starring Stan Laurel. Plot Stan's stagecoach is robbed on his way to Hot Dog for the reading of his uncle's will. Every time he raises his hands his pants fall down. The robbers ride off and Stan tries to drive "Little Mustard" home. The stagecoach horses run off and the stagecoach stands still. The next day at the lawyer Jones's office, tenderfoot Stan learns that he inherits everything including a saloon. If he dies, the estate goes to the two outlaws who have thrown him out the second story window twice. Tenderfoot Stan goes to his saloon only to see a poker player shot and the place robbed. Stan jumps on to Bad Mike's horse backward but manages to ride out of town. The horse takes Stan to Bad Mike's house. Mike and his henchmen arrive with the loot. They keep trying to shoot Stan but keep hitting one another. The Sheriff and the posse arrive by car. Stan captures Mike and the Sheriff arrests him.. Now the girl ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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