Comments on: Book Review: The Sunrise Guns (a.k.a. Law of the Forty-Fives) by William Colt MacDonald http://www.bloggernews.net/121459 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Stu Shiffman http://www.bloggernews.net/121459#comment-1437436 Stu Shiffman Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:16:56 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121459#comment-1437436 I'm very glad to see an appreciation of the Mesquiteers, whose books and films I've been returning to recently. Lovely pulpy stuff, full of narrowed eyes and straight shooters and the hawk-like visage of Tucson Smith! I’m very glad to see an appreciation of the Mesquiteers, whose books and films I’ve been returning to recently. Lovely pulpy stuff, full of narrowed eyes and straight shooters and the hawk-like visage of Tucson Smith!

]]> By: Barry Ergang http://www.bloggernews.net/121459#comment-1360690 Barry Ergang Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:34:39 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121459#comment-1360690 I should have paid closer attention to the Three Mesquiteers entry at the Old Corral website--http://www.b-westerns.com/trio3m.htm--because this novel was in fact made into a movie in 1935, "The Law of the 45's," and starred Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Tucson "Two-Gun" Smith and Al St. John (better known later on as sidekick Fuzzy to various B-western heroes) as Stony Martin. It was the first Mesquiteers film, but did not include Lullaby Joslin. I was also wrong about how many Mesquiteers novels there actually were. I wrote that there were six, which claim was based on the William Colt MacDonald bibliography at Fantastic Fiction (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/william-colt-macdonald/). I have since acquired two more MacDonald Mesquiteers novels, GHOST TOWN GOLD and THE SINGING SCORPION, both of which are incorrectly listed at Fantastic Fiction as non-series titles. I should have paid closer attention to the Three Mesquiteers entry at the Old Corral website–http://www.b-westerns.com/trio3m.htm–because this novel was in fact made into a movie in 1935, “The Law of the 45’s,” and starred Guinn “Big Boy” Williams as Tucson “Two-Gun” Smith and Al St. John (better known later on as sidekick Fuzzy to various B-western heroes) as Stony Martin. It was the first Mesquiteers film, but did not include Lullaby Joslin.

I was also wrong about how many Mesquiteers novels there actually were. I wrote that there were six, which claim was based on the William Colt MacDonald bibliography at Fantastic Fiction (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/william-colt-macdonald/). I have since acquired two more MacDonald Mesquiteers novels, GHOST TOWN GOLD and THE SINGING SCORPION, both of which are incorrectly listed at Fantastic Fiction as non-series titles.

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