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Audio Tour for Exhibit on Kansas in the Westerns
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Available Episodes (22)
Blazing Guns, Welcome
Blazing Guns, Kansas Westerns
The curators explore problems with the films Bad Company and Kansas Territory.
Laura tells us why she loves Rocky Lane and Blackjack.
The real James brothers were nothing like the Hollywood version.
Hear about a real bad-guy turned good-guy turned bad-guy.
The exciting world premiere for Dark Command was in Lawrence, Kansas.
Quantrill was a dirty murdering snake, at least in the movie Dark Command.
Blair gives the inside scoop on the real Quantrill.
The curators talk about Bobby Darin's only western, Gunfight in Abilene, and Blair threatens to sing.
John Brown is curiously evil in the films Santa Fe Trail and Seven Angry Men.
Saloon girls and tables fly across the room in this classic screen brawl from Dodge City.
The curators are fascinated by a fake hand in Gunfight in Abilene.
Blair and Laura struggle to describe the relationship between Marshal Dillon and Miss Kitty in TV's longest running western.
I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
Kansas had its own singing cowboy, Roy Faulkner, complete with musical saw.
Laura discusses the mysteries behind an authentic Roy Rogers outfit featured in the exhibit.
Blair talks about great western character actors, including Walter Brennan.
The Cheyenne war lance in the exhibit is no movie prop, and the portrayal of Native Americans in westerns is no laughing matter.
Blair is appalled by the way old western films stereotype minorities.
Judy Garland is the shortest waitress ever in the movie Harvey Girls.
Blair thinks catfights are the only redeeming feature of movies like Woman They Almost Lynched.
