A Big Howdy ---

Just signed up to this site and immediately jumped aboard the Western forum since that is the genre I'm currently engaged in, having published three "oaters" and working on Number 4. Been reading many of the comments posted here and this looks like a great place to make some like-minded friends and share some ideas. Westerns are an ebb and flow genre which every so often erupts back into popularity. To my way of thing, Westerns are the most satisfying to read, watch and write. A return to simpler times where readers and/or viewers can completely escape today's pressures and concerns. So I hope that Westerns can regain their popularity and that people can once again appreciate them with the same satisfaction they did in the prime days of Louis L'Amour, "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", etc.

Kinda sad to think that the only major offering we fans have as of late is "Aliens & Cowboys". Actually not a bad Western flick . . . till the spaceships arrive. Call me a traditionalist - likewise with trying to visualize Arnold Schwarzenegger as a small-town Western lawman.

Look forward to hearing from y'all.

Thanks Alessandra. Followed your advice. A little green, I reckon, since this is the first group I've joined.

Not a busybody, Alessandra. Appreciated help.

Thanks jdm. I agree --- we also need many new Western readers to help keep the genre alive.

A modern-day story makes much more sense for Arnold, though from stuff I've read the movie is being referred to as a Western.

In any event, my mind still boggles at the thought of Arnie playing a small town lawman. And I have to wonder if the screenwriter(s) will attempt to dream up another ingenious catchphrase for him to spout.