B-Western Boot Hill

By Bobby Copeland

A final tribute to the cowboys and cowgirls who rode the Saturday matinee movie range. This is the most complete list ever assembled of birth dates, death dates, and real names of those beloved... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944019285
• ISBN13: 9780944019283
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Empire Pub
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

B-Western History at it's Best.

Great reading for all B-Western fans who have always wondered what happened to our favorate 'cowboys' and the 'badmen' that we watched at the matinees in the late 1940's and 1950's. A big thank you to Bobby Copeland for his excellent work. (Jop Fourie, South Africa).

B Western Boot Hill

An extremely interesting book that gives the last resting place of our cowboy stars of yesterday

Where Are They Now?

John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Randolph Scott, Gail Davis, the Lone Ranger,Lash LaRue, Bill Elliott, Linda Stirling and the list goes on, and on and on. In fact it goes on for over 1,200 entries in this book. What service has Bobby Copeland done us by roping and corralling all these obituaries and some photos of grave markers into a poorly bound 215-page paperback book? Isn't this all just a little morbid and inconsequential? Well, not so fast pilgrim! Let's take a paragraph from Copeland's introduction: "For decades, critics have maligned the B-Westerns and regarded them as nothing more than juvenile fare, or simply thought of them as a waste of film. Yet these grand old movies probably did more than any one thing to shape our ideas and ideals. The films gave us action, comedy, music, and good wholesome entertainment for the entire family. They taught us faith, hope, loyalty, honesty, and gave us heroes. We knew they were not real, but we loved them just the same. They made no attempt to show life as it is, but rather how life should be. The B-Westerns were not a substitute for church, but they certainly complimented the message presented by the church. After watching one of these movies you felt a tingle of goodness spread throughout your body ... like your soul had been cleansed". If you were fortunate enough to have lived during the 1930s, '40s or '50s you may have been sitting in one of those old majestic movie palaces with buckaroos like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas or yours' truly. We were spread out all across the U.S.A. with thousand of other kids every Saturday for shootouts with every breed of outlaw that ever rode the range anywhere. For us, the fortunate few, we don't have to let our dreams lie with the bleached bones on Boot Hill. We can adopt the code of the west once again. We don't need lawyers to draft hundred page documents. Our word is our pledge and our handshake seals all deals like those between John Wayne and John Ford. And nobody has to tell us how to feel and act. We just know. Our sense of honor and justice comes from our heart and conscience. We are a posse deputized to serve others less fortunate andCode of Honor: The Making of Three Great American Westerns love God, family values and the American way. The memories that Copeland's book conjures up for me are not ghost riders in the sky but a reminder to portray heroes for grandchildren who have no wholesome role models. Thanks Bobby! Your 10 year research project compels me to act it out for another 10 years!