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Mad Cowgirl's Disease!
ACCEPTED!
get enough cowgirls. There is no known cure - all
you can do is treat the symptoms by finding more
and more cowgirls. That's what this website is all
about - finding where the cowgirls are and sharing
the information with everyone who needs it. It is
the right thing to do.
(KJW)
time there were more westerns on tv than any other type of show, but
even then the number of pistol packin' cowgirls was less than 3% of all
episodes. And many fantastic cowgirls were often hiding in episodes
with no mention in the tv guide synopsis. The only way to discover them
would be to stumble across them. This could also be true of cowgirls
hiding out in non-western sit-coms and dramas, often in fantasy or dream
sequences.
And what about the movies? I've never found a synopsis for The Man
Called Noon that gives any clue that the film contains one of the greatest
gunfights between two women in cinema history. The folks who write
these little reviews can't always be trusted to inform us of the presence
of cowgirls.
By 1972 the westerns were just about gone from the tv screen. Even
B-Westerns were seldom seen. In desperation I began attempting to
make the "Great American Cowgirl Movie!" With the help of a number
of friends, filming began on the Lone Lady in Memphis, Tennessee and
on my Mom and Dad's farm near Kennett, Missouri. The movie was
shot on week-ends using a 16 mm camera borrowed from the Southern
College of Optometry courtesy of my friend Rolly Brook, the Audio-
Visual Director at that institution.
Over 2 years later, the project was still not finished. We finally resorted
to presenting it as a stage show with filmed sequences, but the show re-
quired too many people for commercial success and I must confess -"It
was a mess!" It was however, a learning experience and the trailer for the
film did help me land a job at Holiday Inn University as a writer-producer
and director of training material. The project which stars Oma Starbuck
as a female Lone Ranger - The shapely and resourceful women's libera-
tion leader of the plains, was never completed as a film. In the early
1980's, elements of the project were used in a Cable Access show called
"Blow the Fuse" which won a prestigious Cable Ace Award presented as
part of a nationally televised awards show from the Pantages Theatre in
Hollywood. Eventually, the whole story will be told on the Lone Lady
page.
In addition to movies and tv shows, this website will also list cowgirls and
lady gunslingers from books, comic books, advertising, LP and CD album
covers, airplane nose art, paintings, magazines, games, music videos and
any other source where they can be found.
presented here are the property of various copyright holders. WantedCowgirls.com
does not claim ownership of these images.
WantedCowgirls.com represents that these images are legally presented for the purpose
of criticism and documentation. The intention is to help legal sellers of cowgirl material
by making the public aware of their product. WantedCowgirls.com urges you not to buy
pirated copies of any commercially available material. If a title is legally available we
will direct you to an affiliate source where you may purchase it. If the title can be seen
on tv, we will pass along that information.
There is, however, some copyrighted material that is not shown on tv and not available
from the usual sources. It is material that seems to have been abandoned by the studios
and original copyright owners. Many of these titles were preserved by 16mm collectors
and for the past quarter of a century, since the introduction of home video, they have
circulated openly between traders and sellers at film conventions and festivals - with no
protests from the studios. When a cowgirl title is not available from any other source,
WantedCowgirls.com will point you to a collector who has it. The quality depends on
the source material and is often much less than perfect, but it is the only way you'll ever
see some of these cowgirls.
DVD's of cowgirl movies and tv shows in the public domain will be available from this
website.
gunfighters, girl gunslingers, frontier femme fatales, and dangerous
women of the west wearing guns and holsters!