This gets me thinking back to those 'dusters' at the Saturday afternoon matinees in the old Empire Theatre back home when I was about knee-high to a pool table. The endings of those often had a nice sunset for the hero to ride off into, after vanquishing the bad guys by firing about 18 or 19 shots each from his matched set of six-guns - so called because they only held six bullets in their rotary magazines. We sometimes got thrown out of the movie for loudly counting out the shots in gunfights, to the amusement of all present. Ah, those were the days! Try going to a full-length movie these days for the grand sum of twenty-five cents cash. And the movies back then were actually worth watching, too - which is more than I can say for the present crop.
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