Sunday, October 06, 2013

Five top cowboy love stories made into movies

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Melissa Albert tagged five top cowboy love stories that were made into movies, including:
Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison.

Based on the last novella in a 1970s trilogy, both the book and the film center on Tristan, a rancher, soldier, and ferocious bear wrestler. Pitt’s hyper-masculine Tristan has great chemistry with Julia Ormond’s Susannah, but it’s the gorgeous mountain panoramas, which won an Oscar for cinematography, that steal the show.
Read about another entry on the list.

Legends of the Fall is one of Robert Olmstead's 6 favorite books.

--Marshal Zeringue