tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981695710218342454.post2046570560819287342..comments2024-01-25T05:57:26.493-06:00Comments on Cactus Country: The AlamoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10913824362085625374noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981695710218342454.post-84881030164577883992011-08-14T10:50:04.342-05:002011-08-14T10:50:04.342-05:00I, too, have asked myself so many times lately if ...I, too, have asked myself so many times lately if we couldn't go back to those stories and their values. The lessons of right and wrong were taught there.<br /><br />When I worked on my little western story, one reader said any redblooded man would be tempted by the flirting of even a married woman. The rest of the writers' group was aghast. They said no real cowboy would even lightly consider toying with another man's wife! My character was definitely a white hat cowboy,and those readers had attitudes formed by 20th century westerns.Bookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12043111213031211794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981695710218342454.post-7507476158542020872011-08-14T08:00:23.470-05:002011-08-14T08:00:23.470-05:00I've always loved The Duke! I visited his chil...I've always loved The Duke! I visited his childhood home in Winterset, Iowa a few years ago. It's a very small town, just a few miles away from my parents' home town of Greenfield, Iowa! (He sure didn't look like a "Marion"!BECKYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15184458949017900541noreply@blogger.com