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Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. How the West Was Sung: Music in the Life and Films of John Ford 9 2. Hearing the Music in John Ford’s Silents: The Iron Horse and 3 Bad Men 23 3. “Based on American Folk Songs”: Scoring the West in Stagecoach 49 4. Two Fordian Film Scores: My Darling Clementine and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 76 5. “Western as Hell”: 3 Godfathers and Wagon Master 100 6. “The Girl I Left Behind Me”: Men, Women, and Ireland in the Cavalry Trilogy 122 7. “What Makes a Man to Wander”: The Searchers 158 8. In the Shadow of The Searchers: Two Rode Together and Sergeant Rutledge 181 9. Cheyenne Autumn: A Conclusion 194 Notes 203 Select Bibliography 235 Index 241 Contents ...

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