Sentence examples for western lore from inspiring English sources

Although Keith Carradine plays Hickok, the famed gunfighter and gambler, anyone even mildly versed in Western lore knows the role won't be the show's longest-running one.

On August 18 , 1896 according to local Western lore (the truth of which cannot be determined), over 200 outlaws from regional gangs gathered at Brown's Hole, where Butch Cassidy proposed to organize a Train Robbers' Syndicate, which became familiarly known as the Wild Bunch.

No matter what the genetic testing may show -- and it might not show much of anything -- it is hard to overstate the prominence of Garrett and the Kid in Western lore, especially here in southeastern New Mexico, where their lives converged during and after the gun battles for financial control of the region that were known as the Lincoln County War.

At the grittier end of the market, Shane Meadows' guerrilla-style indie-pic Dead Man's Shoes ('Mad Max comes to the Midlands') recently opened to rave reviews, mix ing Western lore and local horror to breathe new life into big-screen revenge dramas.

While the set design harkens back to days of yore in Western lore, the technology powering the new facility on soundstage 25 is all of the latest and greatest that Intel and its partners had to offer.

Though sometimes shifting abruptly in time, Vanaja is an arresting story of modern-day hardship and class exploitation, recalling Charles Dickens as well as Western fairy-tale lore.

Bandera County is not the classic flat pastureland of cowboy lore; the western half is so hilly that it is known as the Swiss Alps of Texas.

Bernard Zielonka (he later changed the family name to Zell) was a grain broker in western Poland; according to family lore, in August, 1939, he learned that the Nazis and the Soviets had signed a treaty that would allow the Nazis to invade Poland.

The website of the Premier of Western Australia refers to Nyungar lore of how the ancestors of the Nyungar people were once Black Swans who became men.

A savvy father directed the fledgling Miser to important source material — Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" — and from there one could navigate the channels that chivalric lore cut through modern Western culture, from Wagner's "Parsifal" and Eliot's "Waste Land" to Georges Rouault's "Old King".

But it remained part of Arabian lore well into the era when Western adventurers like Charles Doughty, Bertram Thomas and Wilfred Thesiger began converting their own Arabian experiences into travel literature, and Clapp traces it through those writings.