The Westerns of Tv Land

I was watching the TV the other day When a certain Rerun began to play. It brought me back to one of my brain's stifled bans Because it was about Lucas McCain...the Rifleman. All of a sudden I was drenched by a flood of Western Shows that have been long since dead. I'll just begin with a few you may remember Like Marshall Dillon - later Gun Smoke as it came on one September. But I remember The Cisco Kid and how Poncho always did what he did we can't forget the masked stranger who of course turned out to be The Lone Ranger Then there was Wyatt Earp, Cimmaron Strip, and Rawhide too, The Guns of Will Sonnet and a Wagon Train rumbling through. Will anyone ever forget Paladin in Have Gun - Will Travel or Trackdown or Wanted Dead or Alive with Josh Randall? Can we ever forget The Big Valley, or the Ponderosa's size when Bonanza came on the tele. There were Tales of Texas Rangers and even an F Troop, Let's not forget Rin Tin Tin and how down on the bad guys he'd swoop. I still can see Lash Larue and Hopalong Cassidy with his black hat There were Three Mesquiters to watch when I sometimes sat. Do you remember Yancy Derringer and his friend Pahoo or Johnny Yuma, The Rebel who never yelled "Yahoo"! Maverick, Sugarfoot, and Cheyenne were favorites of mine There are too many more here for me to rhyme. Many a big star began on that little screen If it hadn't been for the Westerns...What would they have been? It can be fun thinking about some of those shows Because they are a part of TV nostalgia as everyone knows. They have come and gone like the heroes they'd portray I remember the Westerns...and their horse's neigh.