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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

3:19 to Yuma

Elmore Leonard, the original author of the short story recently again made into a major movie "3:10 to Yuma," preferred the far southwestern scene in Arizona and New Mexico.  But at times, at least twice, his imagination included Texas:  "Along the Pecos" (aka "The Rustler") first in Zane Grey's Westerns (Feb. 1953) and "The Woman from Tascosa" (aka "The Rancher's Lady") first in Western Magazine (Sept. 1955).
Both are in The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard (2007).
Leonard partially credits the movie "Red River" in the 1940's with influencing him to write Westerns.

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