60,000,000 Westerners Can’t Be Wrong

Now and then of an evening I find myself drawn to the television machine. If I’m unusually possessed by intellectual curiosity, I may look at something besides cowboy shows, but the normal thing is to twist that knob until I get a good dusty road in view and maybe the sound of a lonesome harmonica or the clatter of hooves on the packed earth of the Old West…

In my declining years I have begun to see the truth in such glorious adventures as those of the Lone Ranger and Little Orphan Annie and Wyatt Earp and Dan Troop and Bat Masterson (although I have some reservations about him, which I’ll discuss later). For they speak a language very close to the heart of the American Dream: the dream of righteousness, the flowering of personal virtue and the power that flows therefrom, the selfless battle against Evil, the simple moral code, the sense of community, the respect for the poor, for the downtrodden, for the tempest-tossed.

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William F. Rickenbacker

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Now and then of an evening I find myself drawn to the television machine. If I’m unusually possessed by intellectual curiosity, I may look at something besides cowboy shows, but the normal thing is to twist that knob until I get a good dusty road in view and maybe the sound of a lonesome harmonica or the clatter of hooves on the packed earth of the Old West…

In my declining years I have begun to see the truth in such glorious adventures as those of the Lone Ranger and Little Orphan Annie and Wyatt Earp and Dan Troop and Bat Masterson (although I have some reservations about him, which I’ll discuss later). For they speak a language very close to the heart of the American Dream: the dream of righteousness, the flowering of personal virtue and the power that flows therefrom, the selfless battle against Evil, the simple moral code, the sense of community, the respect for the poor, for the downtrodden, for the tempest-tossed.