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Christopher Robinson, author of How the West was Not
TVC 753.4: Ed welcomes Christopher Robinson, longtime senior editor and feature writer for Western Magazine Digest. Chris' new book, How the West was Not: Classic TV Westerns and Their Myths, is an offbeat look at many classic Westerns from the Golden Age of Television that particularly focuses on the extent to which the tropes and clichés that permeate those shows stand up to reality when compared to the facts of the real Old West. How the West was Not is available in hardcover, paperback, and as an eBook through Amazon.com. Topics this segment include why Chris believes that the Western…
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