Richard Boone: A Knight Without Armor in a Savage Land

by David Rothel

Here is just about everything you ever wanted to know about one of America's favorite actors. Includes Milestones and Minutiae (A giant, comprehensive compendium of questions and answers about Richard Boone's life, career and achievements); in-depth interviews with family members, friend and co-workers; the films of Richard Boone; Medic episode guide; Have Gun, Will Travel episode guide; The Richard Boone Show episode guide; Hec Ramsey episode guide. Also, each copy of this book includes a Johnny Western CD featuring "The Ballad of Paladin" and "The Guns of Rio Muerto," the only commercial recording Richard Boone ever made. 274 glossy-stock pages. Hundreds of photographs. Durable hardcover binding.

Genres: Biography

Hardcover

Published February 22, 2000

Reviews

[Sandy Pfefferkorn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although this is listed here as a hard cover book, it is really a paper back copy with the same cover. Recently my husband has been watching old Westerns on Encore Westerns, and I have become hooked on watching Richard Boone's old "Have Gun, Will Travel" series which aired originally on tv in the late 1950's and early '60's. I also remember an earlier series which starred Richard Boone--"Medic." I bought a copy of the book from the author on Ebay, and he autographed it for me. The book provides a detailed account of Boone's tv and film roles as well as his life. It was interesting to learn that Randolph Scott had originally been offered the role of Paladin, which he turned down, and also that Richard Boone had been offered the lead in the original "Hawaii 5-0," which later went to Jack Lord. Another interesting tidbit is that most of Boone's fan mail came from "older women," which could explain my fascination with Paladin now. ;-)