Jumat, 13 Oktober 2017

Major Marcus Reno: Misrepresented ‘Monster’

The major is often badmouthed as the villain of the Little Bighorn, but eyewitnesses insisted Reno was no coward—and he was in fact exonerated. ‘What do you do when you’re branded, and you know you’re a man?’ That question comes up in the theme song of the 1965–66 NBC-TV Western Branded, starring Chuck Connors as …

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