| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy. By Peter Stanfield. (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. x + 177 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $37.50, cloth; $16.95, paper.)

Over the years, many Western fans and movie critics have taken pot shots at Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other singing cowboys of the 1930s. Stanfield quotes one writer who described the singing cowboy's mind-set as follows: "Them bandits have beaten my mother, ravished my girl, burned down my house, killed my cattle and blinded my best friend. I'm goin' to get 'em if it's the last thing I do. But first, folks, I'm going to sing you a little song" (p. 2).

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