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The series tells the tales of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, featuring “the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws and law men.”
17 November 1979, Kingsville, Texas, USA
16 May 1987, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
11 February 1936, Lansing, Michigan, USA
30 August 1994, Bogota, Colombia
22 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
7 February 1943, New York City, New York, USA
30 September 1986, Laguna Beach, California, USA
29 August 1936, Canal Zone, Panama
25 November 1963, Brownsville, Texas, USA
15 November 1947, Pasadena, California, USA
June 14, 2016
The cinematography is admirable, and the accounts from historians and academics are sound. But the sight of Burt Reynolds in rose-tinted glasses explaining that George Armstrong Custer "was a hell of a soldier" does little to inform the project.June 13, 2016
What's fresh in this retelling... is the degree to which it has gone in for re-creation as opposed to documentation, and the fact that it has drafted movie cowboys... as talking-head commentators alongside the customary scholars.