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anti Indian and pro banker bent to this show


After watching a few episodes of Larmie, I get the distinct impression that to these boys, Indians were meant to be shot. The episode where a bunch of people are held up in a house on Christmas eve is very telling. They killed three Indians in the bid to get a Christmas tree to celebrate with and thought nothing of it and must have shot twenty more during the one day shootout.

Also, in another episode, Clay Jackson, the polite stage holdup man played by Jock Mahoney gives money to poor farmers and buys poor folks beer, yet has his character impugned in the end and the local banker becomes the good guy. This isn't my idea of good Western politics.

I think Slim Sherman is a bully and the show stinks.

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Just tuned in for the first time today. In the episode The Perfect Gift, Slim just rescued an Indian woman, and apparently he was the foreman of a jury that had acquitted her from killing a white man. That was just the first 10 minutes so I'll see what else develops.

As is always the case, you cannot apply modern ways to 50+ year old shows.

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