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The results are in for the eighth annual C&I Movie & TV Awards . Or as we like to call them: The Cowboys. Nominations for the awards were culled by a C&I committee from films and TV productions that premiered, or continued, during the calendar year of 2024. C&I readers had the final word as they voted for their favorites in various categories.  Horizon: An American Saga — Part One , Kevin Costner’s epic drama about the settlement of the American West, and Elkhorn , the INSP s

The California-born actor is back as Bat Masterson for Season 3 of the INSP docudrama series. A half-decade before the premiere of Wild West Chronicles, the popular docudrama series returning for a third season Thursday on INSP, California-born actor Jack Elliott took his first crack at playing Bat Masterson in an episode of Gunslingers, the Emmy Award-nominated 2015 American Heroes Channel series. “Before Gunslingers,” Elliott says, “I didn’t know that much about Bat. My dad

It could well be the case that with Theodore Roosevelt, America has never had a president who spoke so passionately and modeled so beautifully the virtues of masculinity, family, marriage and children. In speech that he gave in 1897, Teddy Roosevelt declared: No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. Speaking in 1905, President Roosevelt stated: The foundation stone of national life is

As murder trials on the Western frontier go, this one’s about as congenial as it gets — at least during filming breaks. In a compact timber-walled courtroom, the presiding judge is yukking it up with the prosecuting and defense attorneys by the bench. Jurors in formal 1880s attire casually chit-chat in the wings. Even the accused — the imperious Marquis de Morès — seated up front looks relaxed, more like a debonair guest of honor than a menacing French cattleman being tried f