From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Cal Dia wrote:   
      
   > I'm currently reading the most entertaining book   
   > I've read in awhile - a "western" - in the best   
   > tradition of J. Frank Doby and that "other writer"   
   > who gave us such as "Lonesome Dove." This book is   
   > by AAron Latham, who authored "Urban Cowboy" and   
   > wrote the screen play for the movie. And speaking   
   > of titles, this one is "The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun."   
   > If that title doesn't spark the interest of readers   
   > of western novels, nothing will!   
   >   
   > I believe the "Tiffany Gun" was an actual fact   
   > when Colt commissioned Tiffany to cast several   
   > revolvers in solid silver for the Chicago   
   > Exhibition or World's Fair.   
      
   I don't quite buy that, a revolver cast in silver. To what end? Perhaps   
   someone is confused with a Smith & Wesson or Colt's *decorated* by   
   Tiffany & Co. for presentation at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair or   
   various Colts with Tiffany grips.   
      
   As to the book, I believe I can resist. But then, a lot of people   
   thought well when Umberto Eco rewrote Sherlock Holmes into a monastery,   
   while I thought it a lame borrowing. CBS gave The Cowboy... nice   
   coverage, but then the author is married to Leslie Stahl, which helps a   
   bit. The Fort Worth paper's reaction to it was pretty much my take on   
   Eco's piece. A word keeps cropping up in reviews of The Cowboy... and   
   Code of the West - cliché. But perhaps it works much better if one   
   doesn't know much about Goodnight and Loving beyond the names and can   
   tolerate a character's line like, "Ain't this the purdiest sight you   
   ever see in your life?".   
      
      
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
       "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)