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My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral. The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs and Ward Bond. When you pull a gun kill a man - scene from 'My Darling Clementine' (1946)

It has been said that director Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo (1959) as a reaction to two popular westerns which angered him - High Noon (1952) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957). His comment on the former was, "I didn't think a good sheriff was going to go running around town like a chicken with his head off asking for help, and finally his Quaker wife had to save him." Hawks also considered 3:10 to Yuma, which had outlaw Glenn Ford playing psychological games with lawman Van Heflin, "a lot of nonsense." So Rio Bravo was the director's take on heroism...

Ward Bond is one of my favorites from the heydey of TV westerns, and from old John Ford/John Wayne Western movies. No doubt Ward Churchill - who apparently hates the taming of the West and the expansion of civilization that the cowboys and the Army brought with them -- did and does hate Ward Bond and all that he stood for on film (and in life.) This web site honors Ward Bond as the courageous, cantankerous wagon master on "Wagon Train." http://www.fiftiesweb.com/wt/ward-bond.htm