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THE
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Background:
Pull up a chair stranger and l will pour you a tall “Sasparilla” and let’s see if we can spin some tall yarn about the Magnificent Seven (remember Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, et al who defended the village peasants against the bandit raids by Eli Wallach in the 1960s movie of the same name?). We can pass some time together in the hot afternoon sun while waiting for the stagecoach to Purgatory (hear it might be running late today!?): You say there was a rumor from the 1920s and 1930s, that the Magnificent Seven were hired by the “Dow Jones Transportation Company” to guard and shadow the “DJIA’s industrial goods” being carried all over this great nation and to foreign shores. Funny that you mention that, Mr Richard, I found an old cracked mirror behind the hotel and it looks like there is a name on the back of the mirror spelled “Rhea” and the date 1939. There were some old charts taped to the back of the mirror. It says if you look into the mirror for a long time, you may still see the Magnificent Seven riding the rails of the Dow Transportation Company. Take a look at these ole charts I found on the back of the mirror and recall a time long ago (the early 1900s) when the country was still young and gunslingers rode the rails of the DJT railroad. The Old Wild West: Charts 1 - 8 have been partially restored and show some of the old photos of Magnificent Seven from the DJIA Gang as they may have looked when they rode thru the DJT from the 1930s. It looks to me, Mr Richard, like the old sketches of the “DJT gang from the 1930s” I found could have been the Magnificent Seven all these decades, except sometimes I cannot clearly make out Chico in all the sketches. Perhaps, the rest are there like Chris, Vin and Bernardo. “Naw ! You can keep the sketches of the DJT gang, Mr Richard, maybe you have seen them before and besides I’m still busy whittlin’ away on this old tree stump”. The Modern West: Flash forward to July 2004, Chart 9 presents a computer-aided image of the fictional Magnificent Seven if they were still alive today – but of course, nobody has really seen such “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. The computer aided image is based on tinplates that we have seen from our distant past and may not be historically accurate – and we are just passing the time of day anyway. Of course, the tinplates have decomposed over time so some reconstruction of the color and texture was necessary. Is it possible the Seven Bandits still ride today with Calvera today? “Ghost Riders in the Sky” (Words and Music by Stan Jones (1949)): “Their
brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel Yipie i ay Yipie i oh Ghost Riders in the Sky:
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