Page 6 Colby Free Press Friday, February 3, 2006 Hollywood westerns at odds with Kansas TOPEKA (AP) — Hollywood “When I first started collecting has featured Kansans for decades in these posters I saw boulders, pine westerns. trees and a variety of landscape that With guns blazing, people dying, was obvious none of it had been shot It tends to be inaccurate. If you cowboys singing and women in Kansas,” Haines said. “We want try teaching history by Kansas mov- swooning, not everything has been to encourage more film making in “ accurate. the area so that there are more sto- ies, every child gets left behind.” But for many Americans, those ries set in Kansas and shot in Kan- Blair Tarr, movies and early TV westerns de- sas.” fine Kansas’ image. The exhibit, more than a year in Kansas State Historical Society “A lot of the movies are not real the making, features movies and good as history goes,” said Blair 1950s TV shows that either are sup- Tarr, curator of decorative arts for posed to take place in Kansas or fea- —Reb Russell, who left Kansas Highlights of the exhibit include a the Kansas State Historical Society. ture Kansas characters. as a teenager and became an All- traditional cowboy hat, shirt and “It tends to be inaccurate. If you try As Laura Vannorsdel, museum American football star in college. pipe used by Hollywood cowboy teaching history by Kansas movies, curator for the historical society, He made 10 western films in the star Tex Ritter; shirt and pants worn every child gets left behind.” explains it: “This isn’t your typical 1930s, including “Blazing Guns” by Roy Rogers; and doors from the That’s one reason the historical textbook history.” and “Lightning Triggers.” Long Branch Saloon from the society has opened a special ex- Visitors to the exhibit will see —Jess Willard, who became a “Gunsmoke” set. hibit: “Blazing Guns & Rugged Kansas towns as portrayed by Hol- popular star of Wild West shows The exhibit also features artifacts Heroes: Kansas in the Westerns.” It lywood posters: after winning the world heavy- from real Kansas saloons and gam- runs through Sept.30 at the Kansas —A poster for the movie weight boxing title of 1915. bling houses, including a roulette Museum of History in Topeka and “Wichita” reads: “Gateway to the —Vera Miles, who starred with wheel from Wichita, a jail key and features more than 45 examples of West, Doorway to Hell!” Joel McCrea in the movie handcuffs from Dodge City, and a popular westerns, along with 200 —The “Gunfight in Abilene” “Wichita.” She won the Miss profile on bad guy Henry Brown. movie posters. poster reads: “Only his guns and his Wichita and Miss Kansas pageants When the town of Caldwell hired Cynthia Haines of Lawrence do- guts could stop Abilene from erupt- in 1948. Brown as its marshal in 1882, grate- nated the posters. Before moving to ing into a range war!” —Milburn Stone, who for 20 ful citizens presented him with a Kansas in 2003, she was an associ- —“Dodge City” promises plenty years portrayed Doc Adams in Winchester rifle. Two years later, he ate professor of film studies at the of mayhem: “West of Chicago, “Gunsmoke.” Stone was born in used it to rob a bank in Medicine University of Texas at El Paso. She There was no Law — West of Burrton and achieved fame in Lodge. now serves on a state committee to Dodge City, no God!” Broadway in “The Jayhawkers.” That’s the sort of ending Holly- promote the film industry in Kan- Exhibit visitors will learn about Visitors also will see wood would never come up with. sas. Kansas actors such as: Hollywood’s version of cowboys. Business Infinity Massage & Body Work 455 N. 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