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This was the 900.000th Wikipedia article --Nightsleeper 00:11, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Material that might be restored after scrutiny

The following material was removed on 29 April 2020 by User:Stedil because it cited a publication by the user who added the material, and that user had later been banned. That user's page (User:Billy_Hathorn) now carries the message that the user was banned for massive copyright violations, and "Uploads and contributions which he made should be scrutinized". I presently lack access to the West Texas Historical Review where the self-cited article appeared. However, I do not see anything in the following material which makes it obviously invalid. It seems a potentially worthwhile resource for building up the article and improving its quality. If anyone has access to the publication in question, it would be very helpful if you could confirm (or deconfirm) the accuracy of the text here:

In the second season, Peter Leeds played Tenner Smith, the owner of the local saloon, and a former gambler and gunslinger with a mysterious past. Other series regulars included Norman Leavitt as Gilman's deputy Ralph, James Griffith as town barber Aaron Adams, Gail Kobe as Penny Adams, the sister of Aaron, who shows a romantic interest in Gilman in a few episodes, and Addison Richards as physician Jay Calhoun.^[1]

Section "Selected episodes"
In the premiere episode, "The Marple Brothers", Gilman is in fictional Stockton, Texas, where sibling outlaws have taken a church hostage as the gang awaits fresh horses and a doctor to care for one of their wounded. In the sixth segment, "Sweetwater, Texas", Gilman finds and rescues a baby girl outside Sweetwater, the only survivor of a stagecoach attack in which the driver and all the passengers have been shot in the back. He leaves the child with a doctor and investigates, later locating her aunt and arresting the killer.^[1]

A week later in "Alpine, Texas", Gilman finds a town hostile to the Texas Rangers. The narrator begins:

Alpine was like a hundred other towns in Texas. The only thing it had that most others didn't was a railroad spur that connected it to the main line of the Southern Pacific. ... There is nothing unusual about this day in Alpine except that Hoby Gilman, a Texas Ranger, rode in.^[1]

At the end of the episode, when Gilman succeeds in reversing the attitude of the community, the narrator concludes:

Alpine is a prosperous town again, but now there's a fine air of security about it. It's a nice town to live in, because they discovered as Hoby said they would, that when it got off its knees, it cast a much bigger shadow than it thought it did. The people of Alpine feel a lot different about a lot of things now, especially Texas Rangers.^[1]

Section "The Vote"

In the episode titled "The Vote", Henrietta Porter advocates for women's suffrage: "Women should have the right to vote. Women should be in politics. They can't do any worse than you men!" For her guest appearances in Trackdown and many other Westerns, Corby won a Golden Boot award in 1989.^[1]

Section "Other episodes"

In "End of an Outlaw", Gilman and a fellow Ranger halt a bank robbery planned by Sam Bass prior to the outlaw's fateful end on his 27th birthday in Round Rock, Texas. In "Law of the Lampasas", Gilman works to halt the legal lynching of a man he believes not guilty of a crime. The series tackles racial prejudice when Gilman comes to the aid of a Chinese laundry operator being bullied by townsmen. In "The San Saba Incident", he transports four prisoners to the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, one of whom is a woman. In another episode, Gilman is bitten by a rattlesnake while he escorts a prisoner. In another segment, he tracks a carrier of typhoid fever, who leaves behind a trail of affliction. In still another, he investigates occurrences linked to witchcraft. In "The Young Gun", Gilman travels to Del Rio to investigate a bank robbery and goes under cover to gain information to solve the case.^[1]

The above text points to possible ways that (if they pass scrutiny) could help rebuild content in the page. --Presearch (talk) 23:09, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", West Texas Historical Review, Vol. 89 (2013), pp. 103–106

[wtha-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", West Texas Historical Review, Vol. 89 (2013), pp. 103–106

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