The Hollywood Posse: The Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History

by Diana Serra Cary

Book Overview

After 1912, when the great cattle empires began to crumble, hundreds of seasoned cowboys found themselves jobless. A handful of discarded horsemen, however, stumbled upon an entirely new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395204372
• ISBN13: 9780395204375
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Superb narration about the early years of motion pictures.

Filled with adventure, romance and intrigue coupled with its historical setting this book tells the story of the early background players in motion pictures. Although it revolves around the authors father, cowboy, stuntman Jack Montgomery the tales she tells are indicative of a way of life that are long gone as are most of the background players of the golden era of western movies. It tells of the "real" cowboy migration of the western plains to become the "reel" cowboys of motion pictures and the code that they brought with them. This book will make you laugh and cry; it will fill you with excitement; provide insight to the disdain for human and animal care by early Hollywood. This book answers the question, "Where did they come from and how did they do it."