Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen

by Dean Smith

Book Overview

Dean Smith has taken falls from galloping horses, engaged in fistfights with Kirk Douglas and George C. Scott, donned red wig and white tights to double Maureen O'Hara, and taught Goldie Hawn how to talk like a Texan. He's dangled from a helicopter over the skyscrapers of Manhattan while clutching a damsel in distress, hung upside down from a fake blimp 200 feet over the Orange Bowl, and replicated one of the most famous scenes in movie history by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727890
• ISBN13: 9780896727892
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"