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The new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through the town.

"An embittered gunslinger attempts to make amends with his estranged father while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers."--

John Sedgwick recounts the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the "little family" of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in Colorado soon evolves into an all-out battle as each man...

Blazing Saddles: A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town in the Old West of 1874. High Anxiety: Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives to take over as the new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, where he becomes very nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, 'high anxiety,...