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Cap Guns of 2014
Cap Gun Monday got off to a late start in 2014, but will return for a full year of make-believe death and destruction in 2015. I had some of these weapons as a kid, but they all went the way of the...
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Overlooked Films (etc.) of 2014 (etc.)
Here we go with the roundup of Overlooked Films (and such) from 2014 and earlier. As usual, each date is a link. Many of these, especially in the past year, featured the complete films courtesy of...
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BLAZE! The Wild West, Steve Mertz style!
 This new eBook is ready for instant download from Amazon, and I'm sure as shootin' looking forward to reading it. The series, featuring husband and wife gunfighters J.D. and Kate Blaze, was created by...
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Forgotten Books: VALLEY OF VANISHING HERDS by W.C. Tuttle (1942)
Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens, the self-styled "Cowpunchers of Disaster," are at it again in this novel from 1942. In most of the other adventures I've read, the stage is well set, often...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX Ranch Cowboys (Part 2)
Here are more of the 60mm soft plastic people (and critters) you'd most likely meet hanging around Marx playset ranch houses, though some no doubt moseyed into Marx towns on occasion, too. We'll meet a...
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Cap Gun Monday: Nichols SPIT-FIRE
 This little sucker (9 inches is rather short for a rifle) was one of my old favorites. It was sort of a companion piece to the Nichols Pinto (HERE) and Dyna-Mite Derringer (coming soon).  Some...
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Not-So-Overlooked Films: THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1939)
 Here's one of the all-time great Holmes movies. It's Rathbone and Bruce vs. Moriarty, and set in the proper century. But don't dawdle. You never know when the Gods of YouTube will decide we're...
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BLAZE! by Stephen Mertz: The Review
After mentioning this book last week, I plunked down my $2.99 (cheap), had it delivered via lightning bolt to my iPad, and dived in. And damn, I had a rollicking good time. J.D. Blaze and his wife Kate...
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Forgotten Spicy Western Stories: TOO MANY MAVERICKS by James A. Lawson
When I reviewed the Black Dog Books collection Hard Guy here last month (HERE), I threatened to post "Too Many Mavericks"Â by the same author, a guy calling himself James A. Lawson. At the time, I...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: Marx 6-inch Pioneers
Most of these 6-inch pioneers look like Davy Crockett to me, but Marx apparently thought they looked like Daniel Boone. They were based on much smaller poses from the 54mm Daniel Boone, Wilderness...
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Cap Gun Monday: George Schmidt RANGE RIDER
 Was this gun marketed as a tie-in to the Range Rider TV series starring Jock Mahoney? I don't know, but it would be nice to think so. It's 10 inches long, all metal (including the grip) and very...
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The first episode from the 1959 TV series starring Philip Carey and guest-starring Barbara Bain.
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Forgotten Books: HEADED FOR A HEARSE by Jonathan Latimer (1935)
My only excuse for calling this mystery classic "forgotten" is that I forgot it myself. When I decided to re-read and review the Bill Crane series a couple of years ago, I started with The Lady in the...
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