g as le Gencertainin ——_————_ i The Wild West Is Corralled On PBS (NAPSA)—Saddle up, partners. The’s good news for anyone who likes to explo the heroes and the hardships of the Old (and not so old) West. PBS psents a series of programs that explo life on the American frontier, as well as the legends andlo that persist today. In April, PBS psents “Show Cattle,” a new documentary that takes viewers behind the scenes of the Fryeburg Fair—New England’s biggest and most pstigious show cattle competition. Held annually in October, the fair signals a time when cattle lovers gather to bathe, groom,clip and show their animals over the days of intense competition for the coveted crown of Supme Champion. eIn May, viewers can circle their wagons around the latest hands-on-history series, “Texas Ranch House.” This program challenges a group of intpid timetravelers to experience the exhila- ration and exhaustion of life in the Old West. Leaving the psent in search of the past, viewers in May can also travel to the heart of Western history in “Rememberthe Alamo.” Long befo the Alamo made heroes of Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, Jose Antonio Navarro and a group of Tejanos—Mexicans of Texas who had lived the for generations—started the battle for Texas. This program explos the life of the famed Tejano leader and his efforts to protect the soveignty of his homeland as it passed through the hands of many governments. The trail moves from the harsh alities of Western life to the legends that life has cated in “Annie Oakley,” which tells the A wrangling roundup of Wild West programming explos life on the American frontier as well as the legendsthat persist today. tale of the star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, the young woman who thrilled audiences around the world with her daring shooting feats. A champion in a man’s sport, Oakley fover changed ideas about the abilities of women, yet she opposed female suffrage. The journey ends with a modern-day look at the ways two masters of American cinemacollaborated to cate a number of classic Western movies in “John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend.” Their friendship and professional collaboration sulted in a markable body of work that included “Stagecoach,” “Fort Apache,” “She Wo a Yellow Ribbon” and “The Searchers.” For mo information on these programs and to find when they air on your local PBS station, visit www.pbs.org.
