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When The Legends Die is a 1963 American novel written by Hal Borland and a 1972 American Western film released in DeLuxe Color by Twentieth Century-Fox.
Dec 1, 1972 · A 1972 drama western film based on a book by Hal Borland. It stars Richard Widmark as a rodeo trainer and Frederic Forrest as a young Ute Indian who joins the circuit.
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- Drama, Western
- Stuart Millar
- 1972-12-01
Hal Borland's weathered and winding When The Legends Die encapsulates the life and death of a native American Indian caught up in the modern's surging encroachment on the ways of his ancestral people.
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When the Legends Die traces the life path of the novel's protagonist Thomas Black Bull, a Native American Ute from Southwestern Colorado. As a young boy, Tom lives with his mother Bessie and his father George Black Bull in Pagosa.
Young Native American Tom Black Bull (Frederic Forrest) is uneducated and unsociable, but he knows how to ride a horse. When aging rodeo cowboy Red Dillon (Richard Widmark) sees him best a...
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- Stuart Millar
- PG
- Richard Widmark
A Ute Indian becomes a rodeo star and faces racism and exploitation in the white world. Based on Hal Borland's novel, starring Richard Widmark and Frederic Forrest.
Learn about the plot, themes, and characters of Hal Borland's 1963 novel When the Legends Die, which follows the journey of a Ute boy from the wilderness to the rodeo. Find book summaries, character profiles, quotes, and study tools on SparkNotes.
