Showdown

"Lenihan's fine study

        [brings] new levels of scholarship and sophistication to the study of

        western films.... Should prove useful in the classroom, both for social

        history and film history courses. It will introduce readers to a new way

        to view some of the old horse operas that they had once taken for granted

        as fluffy entertainment."

        -- Western American Literature

      '"The best of the recent

        books to deal with Westerns produced since World War II --- in fact, probably

        the best recent study of the Western."

        -- Journal of the West

      "Recommended for the

        student of film and the hardcore film buff. The rest of you will be surprised,

        delighted, perhaps even angered by some of the conclusions Lenihan has

        come to."

        -- Film World