Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction 3 1. The Sound of Silence: The Stalking Moon 17 2. Controversy Runs Wild: 100 Rifles 29 3. The Cleverest Lawman in the West: Support Your Local Sheriff 46 4. Kill the Messenger: Heaven with a Gun and Smith! 59 5. Western as Opera: Once Upon a Time in the West 69 6. The Roadshow That Never Was: Mackenna's Gold 93 7. Retread of a Retread: Guns of the Magnificent Seven 116 8.

Tough Rider: True Grit 121 9. Bloody to the Bone: The Wild Bunch 138 10. The Good, the Bad and the Burt: Young Billy Young * The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 155 11. One Step Ahead of the Audience: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 165 12. A Roadshow Too Far: Paint Your Wagon 183 13. Pedigree Is Not Enough: The Undefeated 192 14. Cause Célèbre: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 209 15. Reissue Fever: A Fistful of Dollars * For a Few Dollars More * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly * Hang 'Em High * Return of the Seven * The Stranger * The Stranger Returns 222 16.

The Last Round Up: The Great Bank Robbery * The Desperados * Death of a Gunfighter * A Talent for Loving * Charro * A Time for Dying * Sam Whiskey * A Man Called Gannon * Journey to Shiloh * Death Rides a Horse * Day of Anger * A Bullet for the General * God Forgives . I Don't * The Brute and the Beast * The Man from Nowhere * Ace High * Any Gun Can Play * Payment in Blood * More Dead Than Alive * The Ramrodder * Brand of Shame * Hot Spur 227 Conclusion 243 Appendix A: ­City-by-City First Run Opening Dates 247 Appendix B: ­City-by-City First Run Box Office Earnings 253 Appendix C: Annual Rankings of Westerns at the Box Office, 1960-1969 259 Chapter Notes 261 Bibliography 281 Index 285.