Those Wide Open Spaces Author:Hank Williams Take a wonderful trip back to your youth -- or the youth of your father -- and spend time with the great cowboy matinee heroes of the 1930's-40's and 50's. Those Wide Open Spaces gives you an intimate inside look at the men, women, and horses that rode across theater screens in every town, large and small, throughout this nation every Satu... more »rday afternoon for more than three decades. Between these 448 pages you will find more than 220 old photographs (many quite rare; some never published before)of individuals that kids really looked up to, dreamed of becoming, and really missed when they rode off into the sunset. Among the great names are: Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rocky Lane, Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Wild Bill Elliott, Charles Starrett, Rex Allen, Sunset Carson, Bob Livingston, Buster Crabbe, Tim Holt, Buck Jones, Tom Mix, and many, many more. Also included are biographies on some of the famous "Queens of the Silver Screen" including Linda Sitrling, Virginia Mayo, Nell O'Day, Peggy Stewart, and Anne Jefferys to name a few. And who could forget the mighty steeds these heroes rode in those great B-Westerns? Horses such as: Topper (Hopalong Cassidy), Silver (The Lone Ranger; also Buck Jones' horse), Tarzan (Ken Maynard), and Papoose (ridden by Little Beaver -- aka Robert Blake -- in the Red Rider series). As long as there are little boys...as long as the little boy in many of us never grows up...there will be a void in our lives -- a longing for those special days in our youth when there were true heroes (both living and fictional). Bring back those days when childhood actually meant being a kid and nothing more.« less