My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys: Cowboy Eyes
The case of the cowboy as P.I. isn't that far-fetched, actually. Authors such as Robert Randisi, Ed Gorman, Frank Gruber, Robert B. Parker, James Reasoner, Bill Crider and Loren Estleman are more than willing to point out the similiarities. And they all happen to have written both mysteries and westerns.
Come to think of it, doesn't Shane seem a bit, uh, Marlowesque? And the dusty old streets of the "Old West" were probably even harsher than Chandler's famous mean streets. As far as I can figure, that first attempt to really blend the two genres was television's Have Gun, Will Travel,
which made its debut on CBS way back in 1957. But it wasn't the
last attempt. Here's a few other eyes of the wild frontier:
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