| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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Book Review

William S. Hart: Projecting the American West. By Ronald L. Davis. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xvi + 269 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.)

Before there was John Wayne, there was William S. Hart. Ron Davis's new biography of the silent Western-film icon is a welcome addition to the too few scholarly attempts to look at one of Western film's founding fathers. An overly theatrical, some say ham, actor, Hart was a midwesterner trained in theater in the East who embraced the American West. Davis, a respected theater arts professor at Southern Methodist University, has already produced two highly praised biographies of Western film legends John Wayne and director John Ford, and this new biography is well up to the standards of those previous books.

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