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"The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind."

-Darryl Ponicsan

(ca. Tom Mix Died for Your Sins: A Novel Based on His Life (New York: Delacorte Press, 1975), p. 135)

In Memoriam: Val Kilmer

Heat

Call Number: DVD MOVIE HEAT

I'm Your Huckleberry

Call Number: 791.4302 KILMER BIOGRAPHY 2020

Tombstone

Call Number: DVD MOVIE TOMBSTONE

Comanche Moon

Call Number: DVD 791.4572 COMANCHE

Thunderheart

Call Number: DVD MOVIE THUNDERHEART

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Dakota Kill

Call Number: WESTERN BRANDVOLD

After a seven-year absence, Mark Talbot returns to the Dakota Territory looking for a little peace and quiet. But peace isn't what he finds: greedy landholder King Magnussen of the Double-X ranch wants sole reign of the Bench, a fertile and prosperous control in the Dakota Territory. And Magnussen always gets what he wants.

The Dakotas

Call Number: DVD 791.4572 DAKOTAS

Four unlikely companions come together thanks to a shared injustice and become an unwavering quartet of crimefighters out to ensure that evil never again be allowed to flourish in the badlands of the Dakota Territory.

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