Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 One. A Perfect Storm--the 1960s 7 Two. Enter--and Exit--Sam Peckinpah 26 Three. A Giant Departs, an Opportunity Opens 39 Four. Hollywood's West 43 Five. Sires 55 Six. Peckinpah's Bunch 70 Seven. Mexico Lindo 90 Eight.

Missing Pieces 98 Nine. The Wild Bunch 106 Ten. Undying Echoes and Dying Fires 116 Eleven. A Moment Come and Gone 131 Epilogue: Riding into the Light 145 Appendix A: The Wild Bunch Production Credits 153 Appendix B: The Songs 159 Appendix C: A Collage of Reviews 163 Appendix D: Film Critic Stephen Whitty on The Wild Bunch 167 Appendix E: Reviewer and Pay-TV Film Programmer Youssef Kdiry--Meditations on The Wild Bunch 169 Appendix F: Film Critic Brian Marks on The Wild Bunch--Starting at the End 173 Appendix G: Author David L. Robbins on The Wild Bunch 175 Appendix H: The Stock Company 179 Appendix I: Sam Peckinpah Filmography 181 Bibliography 187 Index 195.