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"Every country in the world adored the folklore of the Western - the music, the dress, the excitement, anything that was from the opening of a new territory. It needed everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more melodies and prose and poetry than other folk amount. The closest thing was japan samurai. Now, I question who'll continue it." - John Wayne A lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most important information, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. Hollywood has produced no scarcity of famous celebrities, but nothing have been as culturally significant as John Wayne. Marion Morrison was born in a quintessentially quaint Midwestern town, but he eventually was raised to be John Wayne, the legend of the big screen who embodied the American frontier. Wayne starred in so many videos (practically 150 in all) that when asked to mention his most detrimental, he joked that 50 of these were tied, however the excessive amount allowed Wayne to portray heroes of all stripes, from cowboys to troops, and he was invariably lovely, courageous, and full of strong, masculine swagger. Even as Westerns have certainly waned in level of popularity, Wayne himself has remained immensely popular, partly because he establish the prototype for the heroic character, no matter genre.
