I discovered the Encore Western channel and have been setting DVR timers like it’s goin’ out of style.
So far my favorite is the old series “Have Gun, Will Travel”. If you aren’t familiar with this awesome series, here’s the plot:
Paladin (played by Richard Boone), “a fast gun for hire” living in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, well, has a gun and travels. Some of his adventures are more comical than others, all are full of shootouts and fistfights. Somehow the writers would always slip in Paladin’s business card:
And Paladin’s holster:
My only issue with the show: a one ounce trigger pull.
And so I leave you with this:
From the 1950s
“Have gun, will travel reads the card of a man.
A knight without armor in a savage land.”
“A soldier of fortune is the man called Palladin.”