>>( when I was a kid and figuring out what cool was - Yancy and Paladin were pretty much the whole deal )
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>Sorry. I don't usually chat in forums, but the name Paladin brought back memories of "Have Gun Will Travel" with Richard Boone and also Steve McQueen's "Wanted: Dead Or Alive"
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>I always thought of myself as cool as Steve McQueen... yeah right.:)
Yeah, Steve McQueen and that sawed off hogleg Winchester. Great show. I think I remember hearing someplace that in 1958 14 of the top 20 TV shows were westerns. I have the DVDs of HGWT and the show holds up remarkably well. Considering that was the age of Leave it to Beaver etc, HGWT and Wanted were like The Shield and the Sopranos.
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