If anyone is interested.

[45Badger]

Sounds like a great trip. When do spring steel shoots start? February??????????????

[xd ED]

Tucumcari-Cadillac Ranch?

Nope. Think Clint

A reference possibly lost on those born too late to appreciate proper entertainment.
And apropos of bison and unmolested prairie, have you visited Minnesota's Blue Mound State Park? My father's family settled near there, and the park being featured in one of John Sanford's recent works: "Dark of the Moon" rekindled my interest to explore the park, and area. I understand the park has a captive bison herd, as well as perhaps the only spot in the state with native cactus remaining. I had hoped to get there this fall but it didn't happen. Sounds like you had a great trip. I look forward to seeing the photos.

[gyrfalcon]

I understand the park has a captive bison herd, as well as perhaps the only spot in the state with native cactus remaining. I had hoped to get there this fall but it didn't happen. Sounds like you had a great trip. I look forward to seeing the photos.

From listening to someone who stepped on them barefoot... The Jeffers Petroglyphs most likely have natural prairie cactus around them: http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/jp/

[1911fan]

Tucumcari, NM,

Eastwood was a castmember of Rawhide when it filmed there...later as he became a TV star this Italian guy wanted him to make a western, which was kind of an odd Idea, to have a european directing a western, So Clint said he would do it, but only if Sergio Leone would come over and film it during breaks in the production of Rawhide. Which was fine with Leone, as he could use the same wranglers, sets, actors even, in the movie as the TV was already paying for.

The name of the movie was "For a Few Dollars More", which became a big hit, and caused Eastwood to leave TV and become a movie actor.

[Jeff Bergquist]

Tucumcari, NM,

Eastwood was a castmember of Rawhide when it filmed there...later as he became a TV star this Italian guy wanted him to make a western, which was kind of an odd Idea, to have a european directing a western, So Clint said he would do it, but only if Sergio Leone would come over and film it during breaks in the production of Rawhide. Which was fine with Leone, as he could use the same wranglers, sets, actors even, in the movie as the TV was already paying for.

The name of the movie was "For a Few Dollars More", which became a big hit, and caused Eastwood to leave TV and become a movie actor.

I thought "A Fistful of Dollars" was the first Leone/Eastwood spaghetti western.

[xd ED]

Tucumcari, NM,

Eastwood was a castmember of Rawhide when it filmed there...later as he became a TV star this Italian guy wanted him to make a western, which was kind of an odd Idea, to have a european directing a western, So Clint said he would do it, but only if Sergio Leone would come over and film it during breaks in the production of Rawhide. Which was fine with Leone, as he could use the same wranglers, sets, actors even, in the movie as the TV was already paying for.

The name of the movie was "For a Few Dollars More", which became a big hit, and caused Eastwood to leave TV and become a movie actor.

I thought "A Fistful of Dollars" was the first Leone/Eastwood spaghetti western.

I agree. While "Rawhide"- with Eastwood as Rowdy Yates- was filmed in that area, the 3 most famous spaghetti westerns were "A Fist Full of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More", and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", filmed in that order, in Rome, and Spain:

http://100falcons.wordpress.com/2008/09 ... re-filmed/

"Where Great Westerns Were Filmed

Drive a few miles north of Almería in Spain and things start to look oddly familiar, even if you come from Cleveland or Glascow.
This is the Tabernas Desert...

--- genuine cowboy country–gray, dusty, barren hills that make your mouth dry just to look at them. Remember how hot and dusty Lee van Cleef and Clint Eastwood looked in A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
Those movies were filmed here, along with a hundred others. This was where Sergio Leone shot his Spaghetti Westerns...."