Blazing Guns and Rugged Heroes Exhibit Audio Tour
Join the curators on this lighthearted tour of the exhibit, Blazing Guns and Rugged Heroes. This exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History features movie posters for westerns in which Kansas played a starring role.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 22
- Years Active
- 2006
15 Red Ryder
I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
00:02:56 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
18 Sidekicks
Blair talks about great western character actors, including Walter Brennan.
00:02:35 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
20 Harlem Cowboys
Blair is appalled by the way old western films stereotype minorities.
00:02:00 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
22 Women
Blair thinks catfights are the only redeeming feature of movies like Woman They Almost Lynched.
00:03:58 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
1 Welcome
Introduction by curators Laura and Blair, who explain how to use this audio tour.
00:01:48 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
3 Bad Company
The curators explore problems with the films Bad Company and Kansas Territory.
00:07:04 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
7 Dark Command
The exciting world premiere for Dark Command was in Lawrence, Kansas.
00:02:54 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
12 Dodge City
Saloon girls and tables fly across the room in this classic screen brawl from Dodge City.
00:02:05 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
16 Musical Saw
Kansas had its own singing cowboy, Roy Faulkner, complete with musical saw.
00:02:32 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
19 Native Americans
The Cheyenne war lance in the exhibit is no movie prop, and the portrayal of Native Americans in westerns is no laughing matter.
00:02:58 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
10 Corduroy Cowboy
The curators talk about Bobby Darin's only western, Gunfight in Abilene, and Blair threatens to sing.
00:02:36 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
14 Gunsmoke
Blair and Laura struggle to describe the relationship between Marshal Dillon and Miss Kitty in TV's longest running western.
00:02:08 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
21 Harvey Girls
Judy Garland is the shortest waitress ever in the movie Harvey Girls.
00:01:55 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
2 Kansas Westerns
How accurate are western films when it comes to Kansas history? Not very.
00:01:51 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
11 John Brown
John Brown is curiously evil in the films Santa Fe Trail and Seven Angry Men.
00:02:44 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
13 Remakes
The curators are fascinated by a fake hand in Gunfight in Abilene.
00:02:24 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
5 Frank and Jesse
The real James brothers were nothing like the Hollywood version.
00:03:18 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
8 Always Bad
Quantrill was a dirty murdering snake, at least in the movie Dark Command.
00:03:07 |
Thu 06 Apr 2006
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