Sulphur Winter Issue

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December 21, 2015

SULPHUR FLY FISHING LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE

Follow That Stock Truck!

Reflecting On The Film A River Runs Through It River Sharks River Folks

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14 Sulphur Staff HUNTER MORRISON MACLEAN TRACY MCCLAIN PATRICK SKEEN ZACHARY TINCHER RJ KERWOOD ROBERT DEMOTT

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FOLLOW THAT STOCK TRUCK Hunter Morrison Maclean

RANT Tracy McClain

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REFLECTING ON THE FILM Carly Flandro

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MILL POOL RIVER HOGS

EDITOR’S NOTES

Follow That Stock Truck!

Where’s the broods? Watching a line of Hoogers following a stock truck is like watching rainbows staging in a small riffle for the sulphur hatch. The smell of Power Bait waifing about like a fresh killed skunk.

Kansas corn industry sees profit margins go up with every stocking.

But with saying this I feel there is a need for it in some circumstances. It does keep the local population busy and out of the catch and release sections with their worms and bobbers. I have seen locals chance getting

busted yanking fish from catch and release sections when there is a pay pond just a mile down the road and a put-n-take three miles the other way. With the lack of law enforcement, mainly due to funding, the freedom to poach is ramped. Local fly shops and hatcheries will try and police the areas, usually ending in confrontation and in worse case scenarios, SHOOT OUTS. tHE hOOGER POPULATION FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT PRESERVING THEIR RIGHTS TO “KILL WHAT THEY WANT, WHEN THEY WANT.” tHIS SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT HAS BECOME A THORN

Hooger - h-oo-gar noun plural, hoogers - a backwoods person who has no respect for the land, wildlife, the law, other local folks, or themselves. One who has a sense of entitlement, and never worked a day in their life. Welfare, meth, pain pills and the cheese line is a way of making a living.

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IN THE WEST VIRGINIA’S FLY FISHING MAINSTREAM’s side. aNOTHER SORE SPOT ON MY ASS IS THE FLAGRANT KILLING OF NATIVE BROOK TROUT. WHEN I FIRST CAME TO THIS AREA I WOULD NOTICE A BLEACH BOTTLE ON A STICK FLYING LIKE A VICTORY FLAG IN BATTLE. SURE ENOUGH AFTER ASKING AROUND I COME TO FIND THAT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. THE HOOGER ARMY WILL HIKE UP A PRISTINE BROOKIE STREAM AND POUR BLEACH in IT. AS THE BROOKIES FLOAT TO THE TOP THE NETTING BEGINS.

Where’s The Broods?

I HEAR BROOKIES TASTE GOOD DEEP FRIED AT ANY SIZE. tHIS SEEMS TO BE THE GOAL OF HOOGER NATION. A STREAM CAN BE WIPED OUT IN A MATTER OF A FEW HOURS THAT HAS TAKEN DECADES TO REVITALIZE. AFTER THE LAST BITE AND TOOTHPICKS ARE THROWN IN THE CAMPFIRE THE PLAN IS SET FOR THE NEXT STREAM. hANGING THE EMPTY BLEACH BOTTLE BY THE STREAM IS JUST THEIR WAY OF SAYING “WE WON THIS BATTLE, FUCK YOU.”

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Catch ’n What?

tHE NEXT SORE SPOT IS WHEN YOU LET A HOOGER ON AN ATV. BROOK TROUT STREAMS BECOME THE NEW RED BUD RACE TRACK. THE DESTRUCTION IS EMENCE. NOT ONLY IS THE HABITAT DESTROYED BUT THE GAS AND OIL SPILLS DO AN ABUNDANCE OF DAMAGE TO THE FISH POPULATION. THEN IF THAT’S NOT ENOUGH, IF A WRECK OCCURS AND A HOOGER IS INJURED, A LAW SUIT ON THE LANDOWNER SEEMS TO BE THEIR NEXT MOVE. THEY ARE USED TO WORKING THE SYSTEM SO WHY NOT TAKE THE CHANCE AT FREE MONEY. THE ONLY WAY THESE PROBLEMS ARE GOING TO BE CURED IS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT INCREASES. WITH THE FUNDS BEING CUT EVERY YEAR i SEE NO END TO THE DESTRUCTION BEING PLACED UPON OUR WATERS. YOU SAY START HITTING UP THE POLITICIANS, RIGHT? THE THING IS THEY ALL GREW UP WITH THE SAME BACK WOODS MORALS AND SUPPORT THE BAD HABITS. THE STATE TOURIST BOARD WOULD RATHER HEAVILY PROMOTE ATV ACTIVITY THAN FLY FISHING. WITH THE ATTITUDE OF “WE DONT WANT DEM OUTA STATERS ON OUR STREAMS!” THE TOURISM IN WEST VIRGINIA HAS TAKEN A TERRIBLE TURN FOR THE WORST. IN THE 90’S SKIING AND MOUNTAIN BIKING TOOK FRONT STAGE, BUT THAT HAS EVEN BEEN PUT ON THE BACK BURNERS IN A SENSE. BAIT CHUCKER GROUPS LIKE FISHING REPORT wv HAS BEEN WORKING DILIGENTLY TO RESTORE THE GOOD NAME OF THEIR LIFESTYLE. THE GROUP HAS CLEANED MANY STREAMS OF TIRES AND DEBRI. THEY WILL WORK WITH FLY FISHERMEN TO CREATE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO LIFESTYLES AND WILL EVEN SHOW UP AT OUR FLY SHOP TO JUST SHOOT THE SHIT ABOUT THE DAY ON THE RIVER. THEY HAVE THE SAME COMON GOAL, CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION AND A GOOD TIME ON THE STREAMS. i give this group props for their hard work against the odds of local mentality

- Hunter

SO THE NEXT TIME YOU DRIVE PAST A STREAM AND SEE A BLEACH BOTTLE ON A STICK, You might as well keep going to the next stream, that one is probably empty 7

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It does not matter if you are Christian, Jewish, Pagan, Hindu, or Atheist it is time we as Americans need to stand up, take up arms and protect our families, friends, and communities from what is going on in the Middle East that has made it to our shores. We need to stop closing a blind eye to what has been happening and see the war that has been slowly and By- Tracy McClain systematically trickling into America. This is not an antimuslim rant but an anti-islamic jihadist rant. The Trojan Horse is at our gates and it is being rope pulled by our break down in the system our fore fathers built.

THIS MAY JUST BE A RANT, BUT IT’S TIME

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America is quickly being divided into three groups. Group one sees what is happening and has their hands tied from doing anything by the rope of political correctness. Group two is brainwashed by the talking heads of political correctness and group three just does not care as long as the welfare and food stamps keep coming. Groups one and two need to unite, find the common ground for the good of the people and begin the fight to push this cancer out of America. Now there is a group four too and that is the cancer, the enemy to the way of life we as Americans have fought and died for. When the Irish were immigrating to America in the 1860’s they were handed a draft notice the minute they got off the boat. Was this fair? They were forced to fight a war that they had no clue what it was about. But what it did was solidify their rights as Americans for their future and their descendants. Because of them and the millions of soldiers that came before and after them is the reason group three can sit on their asses and I can write this article with a hand gun strapped to my hip. It is also the reason you can worship or celebrate which ever God you want without persecution. If we don’t get off our asses and start thinking about self preservation, we will not have these rights and we will be getting our heads sawed off in the streets.

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noun noun: militia; plural noun: militias

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a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.

▪ a military force that engages in rebel or terrorist activities, typically in opposition to a regular army.

▪ all able-bodied civilians eligible by law for military service.

A militia is generally an army or other fighting unit that is composed of non-professional fighters, citizens of a nation or subjects of a state or government that can be called upon to enter a combat situation, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, members of the fighting nobility class (e.g., knights or samurai). Unable to hold their own against properly-trained and -equipped professional forces, it is common for militias to engage in guerrilla warfare or defense instead of being used in open attacks and offensive actions.

However, beginning as early as the late 20th Century, some militias (particularly officially recognized and sanctioned militias of a government) act as professional forces, while still being "part-time" or "on-call" organizations. For instance, the members of some U.S. Army National Guard and Air National Guard units are considered professional soldiers and airmen, respectively, as they are trained to maintain, and do maintain, the same standards as their "full-time" (active duty) counterparts. Therefore, these professional militia men and women of the National Guard of the United States are colloquially known as "citizen-soldiers" or "citizen-airmen". The historical view is when three or more citizens gather together in the common defense of their country or state, they then become a militia.

Militias thus can be military or paramilitary, depending on the instance. Some of the situations the term "militia" is used include forces engaged in defense activity or service, to protect a community, its territory, property, and laws.

The entire able-bodied population of a community, town, county, or state, available to be called to arms.

The word militia in the near past has taken on a misconception of radicals against the government. With groups such as David Koresh’s religious group and several other anti government groups forming and stock piling weapons, the public take on militias has become tainted.

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With The Boston Bombing and The San Bernardino attacks, we are seeing small groups of “domestic” Islamic terrorists being recruited or swayed by social media. What are we going to do when these small groups become large groups or joined by refugees with the same cause, to make America a complete Islamic State. We can’t be sitting on our asses listening to the far left whine about gun control and offending race groups. We need to be finding leaders and organizing community militias using a chain of command and training. There needs to be a way of registering each militia with the local police as to when an attack would occur the police can call on the militia for assistants. In large cities the police are well equipped, but in the rural or smaller towns the police could call on the volunteers for man hunts, reinforcements, or even securing an area while the smaller police force continues a search or investigation pulling them from the area that needs secured. Most areas of West Virginia and other mountain states have very small police forces. They are spread out thin, covering large areas. If a call were to come in for a mass shooting or attack on a resort or tourist attraction, it would take a measurable amount of time to get the amount of man power needed to stop the attack. If a local militia was in effect then they could respond much quicker.

A community militia should be a volunteer group, sponsored by the community with provided training needed to properly handle certain situations. Again I must stress that a proper militia will need to be well trained and follow a chain of command. We have volunteer firemen in rural areas and a properly trained volunteer militia would be as important to the community if the need arrises. Just like owning a gun for protection. You never want to have to use it, but if you do need to, it is better to have it and have a fighting chance than to not have it and die wishing you had one.

ARE YOU STILL READING THEN YOU MUST BE GROUP ONE

Now, you are thinking,”This is a fly fishing magazine, what does this have to do with me spending a day on my favorite stream?”

Simple, if we do not preserve our way of living now, we won’t have our way of living. Just turn on which ever news outlet you prefer to watch and see what is going on in the Middle East. Do you want to live like that? That is what the Islamic Jihadists want to do to America and if we don’t pull the roots from our asses to the couch out soon America will become those scenes we see on tv.

I am pretty happy living in the mountains and throwing flies in clean rivers when I want, choosing whichever religion I want, being able to own fire arms when I want, writing articles how I want, taking care of my family with whatever job I want. If the Left wants to call me a profiling bigot for believing this way, then so be it. Sticks and stones. The Left is as free as I am to think how they want. But only because our country was fought for by militias and small armies in the 1700’s and many soldiers there after has fought to keep the freedom we possess in America so we can all believe what we feel is right.

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Have You Seen These Folks On The River?

Al Capone

Ava Gardner

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Debbie Reynolds

Humphrey Bogart

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Presidential Casting

Calvin Coolidge

Dick Cheney 22

George Bush

Herbert Hoover

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Teddy Roosevelt

Winston Churchill & Franklin Roosevelt

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The Babe Ruth

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Jimmy Kimmel with some old guy

Gretta Garbo

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Gary Cooper

Jack Nicholson

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Kevin Costner

Brad Pitt

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Tiger Woods

Henry Winkler

Kate Groombridge

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Steve McQueen

Earnest Hemingway 30

Joan Blondell

Jake Gyllanthal

Eric Clapton

Dave Letterman 31

The Duke John Wayne

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Reflecting on the film

“A River Runs Through It” and how it changed

Montana A river, the sound of water flowing over

rocks, an old man’s hands tying a fly to his line and narration from Norman Maclean’s novel “A River Runs Through It” changed our state forever.

The scene is the beginning of the film by the same name and the story of brothers, of Montana, of family and of fly-fishing.

This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the film’s premiere. The film boosted the local flyfishing and real estate industries, attracted tourists to Montana, and drew attention to the state’s beauty and beloved rivers.

In the novel, Maclean casts flies and reels in trout on the Blackfoot River near Missoula, but the film was shot mostly on the Gallatin River and in Southwest Montana. That was partly because the Blackfoot was not as pristine as it once was.

“Norman’s fishery had gone through tough times,” Patrick Markey, co-producer of the film, said recently.

Livingston was also easier to transform into a 1920s-style set than Missoula would’ve been.

So Hollywood came to Southwest Montana, bringing in stars like Robert Redford, who directed and co-produced the movie, and Brad Pitt, who was still a budding actor.

Hundreds of locals lined up to try out for parts in the film and women squealed at seeing Redford in the streets. The community was a buzz.

A headline in a 1991 issue of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle read: “Redford says film may bring changes.”

How right he was.

Written by-CARLY FLANDRO, Staff Writer at Bozeman Daily Chronicle,

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‘It was an accident’

Thomas McGuane, an author who lives east of Livingston, first introduced Redford to the novel.

“It was an accident,” McGuane wrote in a recent email to the Chronicle. “Redford was visiting me and we were talking about western books we liked. He hadn’t heard of Norman Maclean’s book, so I gave him a copy and the rest is history.”

Maclean wrote the novel, which includes “A River Runs Through It,” as well as other stories, at age 70 after retiring from being a professor at the University of Chicago. His initial attempts to get the work published did not go well.

An eastern publisher told him the stories had “too many trees” in them. The University of Chicago press eventually published the novel, and it was declared a piece of classic literature.

Redford must not have minded the trees in the story, for he said after reading it he had an “obsession” with getting it produced.Impact on fishing

In 1991 when Redford was directing the film, he said he hoped it would inspire people to keep some Western places and rivers wild and free.

In many ways that seems to have happened, or so think a group of people – Markey, John Bailey, owner of Dan Bailey’s Fly Shop, K.C. Walsh, owner of Simms Fishing Products, and Dudley Lutton, who works in project development – who recently got together to discuss the film.

For one, the Blackfoot River’s degradation was highlighted when the film could not be made there because of logging, mining and grazing issues.

“People in the business knew the Blackfoot was a disaster,” said Bailey, who owns a legendary fly shop in Livingston.

“Now it’s a viable fishery again,” Markey said.

“The film was maybe the impetus to get that done.”

Some opine that the film contributed to a crowding of Montana’s remote and special rivers and an influx of “outsiders.”

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“Some people say we had a hand in ruining Montana,” Markey said. “Growth scares everyone. It’s good for many, though.”

Walsh said the “the movie,” as those in the fly-fishing industry refer to it, was certainly beneficial for Simms. In fact, at the recent meeting he was lobbying Markey to produce another film.

Walsh noted that every new fly-fisherman is a new advocate for cold, clean rivers and healthy trout habitat.

Bailey said women were inspired by the film’s cinematography and began coming to the sport for its beauty.

“Brad (Pitt) helped,” he added. “It brought in women who never would’ve picked up a rod before.”

Hollywood comes to Montana

To become so popular and loved, the film had to be made just right – and it wasn’t easy. When the movie cast first set up shop in Livingston, the locals were skeptical.

What did these Hollywood types know about fly fishing? They would probably muck it all up.

Aware of that attitude, the moviemakers announced that anybody who had anything to offer in terms of improving their flyfishing knowledge or skills should come on over. Orvis sent them a truckload of gear to practice with. A man from Hamilton drove to the set to lend the crew a mechanic fish that could jump out of water and look like a real fish fighting a line.

“That represented to me how everyone in the industry, big and small, wanted to be involved,” Markey said.

The production crew also asked Bailey to serve as its fly-fishing consultant. Bailey spent 10 days fishing with Pitt and Craig Sheffer, who played Norman in the movie.

He also stood by as the film was being made to make sure the fly-fishing looked authentic and was being done correctly.

Each day after filming was completed, the crew would watch “dailies” or the shots they’d produced that day. At one point after seeing the outcome of the day’s fly-fishing shots, Bailey said he and a friend decided they would have to take their names off the film and disassociate. The fly-fishing looked horrible.

As if he had read their minds, Redford walked up to them afterward and said, “That was awful.”

At one point, the filmmakers also held a try out to search for local fly-fishing doubles. Dozens of people turned out. None got a part except for an old man who played the elderly Norman at the beginning and end of the movie.

“He came out of nowhere,” Markey said of finding the man. “That guy had done it all. He had a heartbreaking face.”

He had just the elegance needed for the movie.

Markey knew they needed to make the flyfishing scenes look authentic or the film would immediately lose its audience. Once the scenes looked good enough, he could begin to establish the human parts of the film.

“Most people think this is a movie about flyfishing,” he said. “But it’s not. It’s a movie about a family.”

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Livingston transformed

When the crew was here, Livingston was transformed. Fake storefronts were constructed over Callender Street businesses so they would fit an older era.

Paved roads were covered with gravel.

Horses and buggies replaced vehicles.

Livingston mothers with day jobs dressed up as 1920s prostitutes and solicited customers while leaning over a balcony.

Livingston local Vann Gravage, who was then 6 or 7 years old, landed a speaking part in the film as the young Paul Maclean.

He said every kid in town tried out for the part. In his interview, Gravage, now 26, said he remembers being asked what he wanted to do when he grew up.

“Be a professional sword fighter,” he said.

Maybe that answer was his ticket for the acting job. In the movie, Paul tells his brother Norman he wants to be a professional fly-fisherman, which Norman tells him doesn’t exist.

Eventually, the moviemakers left and with them went the 1920s facades, the actors, and the buzz. Still, their presence made an impact that is felt even today.Impacts

“There was a huge romantic Montana wave the movie contributed to,” Lutton said. “There was a big attraction to Montana. People were excited about it.”

After the movie’s release, people began contacting Lutton about wanting to live on a ranch in Montana, someplace close to water.

Michelle Becker, a real estate broker and the owner of Maverick Realty, said there was a surge of interest and prices climbed.

“Having that picture out there and the fact that it won an Academy Award for best cinematography…was definitely a nice shot in the arm,” she said.

Eric Ossorio, a real estate broker in Big Sky, said the impact of the film is waning but still significant.

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“That was the foundation,” he said of the film.

“Now things have built up on top of that.”

Justin King, owner of Montana Troutfitters in Bozeman, said the film changed the area.

“From a retail shop point of view, it was a great thing for business. From the viewpoint of being a local kid that grew up on the river, it went from being able to find anyplace to fish by yourself to having to get up early and get out there before everyone else,” he said.

Every once in a while, he said customers still ask to fish where the film was made. Guides take them past Brad Pitt Rock, which the actor cast from in the movie.

In addition to impacting fishing, the production also helped launch Montana’s fledgling film industry and initiated a demographic shift.

The Montana Department of Commerce called it all “A River Runs Through It Syndrome.”

Marissa Kozel, spokeswoman for the department, said she doesn’t have “hard numbers” to show the film’s economic impact on the state but that “the impact for the state of Montana has been priceless as far as promotional value.”

“The film is an iconic image of Montana and it has over the years attracted many visitors to the state from all over the world, even other filmmakers,” she said. “It has made an indelible impression on them. It just draws people to the state.”

Kelly Pohl is the program director at the Gallatin Valley Land Trust and a Bozeman local. She wrote in a recent Chronicle column that the film “forever changed” her hometown.

The impacts, she wrote, have been bittersweet.

Norman’s legacy

Maclean passed away in 1990, so he never got to see the film based on his novel. If he had, what would he have thought of the movie, its success and its impacts?

He probably would’ve been ambivalent, daughter Jean Maclean Snyder said in a recent interview.

Maclean probably would’ve had an evolution of reactions – starting out upset by some parts and gladdened by others, then mellowing in time – son John Maclean said.

Neither sibling can say for sure, but they certainly have their own views of the film.

Jean, an attorney, described the movie as masterful and appreciated Redford’s work.

“A lot of what I liked was the very artful job they did of casting people and of the way in which the country was used. It looked so beautiful,” she said.

John, an author, former journalist and fly fisherman, said the fishing industry exploded after the movie.

“It was the most enticing fly-fishing movie ever made,” he said. “In the first year after it came out, the fly-fishing industry grew by 60 percent, and the following year by another 60 percent.”

He remembers seeing people on the Missouri River from places as far away as Japan fishing in costumes like those worn in “A River Runs Through It.”

John is also a member of Trout Unlimited, and he said that for years after the movie, the organization had trouble raising money for any river other than the Blackfoot.

“The effect there was profound,” he said.

The crowds on the Blackfoot eventually drove him away from the river, though, and now he only fishes it in the early or late season.

John now lives in the East where he said that, among anglers, “the book is the Bible and the movie is what did it.”

Remembering their dad recently, John and Jean said he was a man that lived in two different worlds – Chicago and Montana – and he was a different person in each. In Chicago, he had an intellectual connection to the world. In Montana, he had a hands-on connection, Jean said.

Both were important to him.

“He was a wonderful man to go fishing with,” John said. “I loved fishing with him more than anything I’ve ever done. He could make it magic, turn it into this epic of beauty and grace and heroism. He could make you feel like a million dollars, like you were part of a wonderful piece of literature, like you were a work of art.”

Two decades after the film “A River Runs Through It” premiered, and even longer since the novel was published, Norman’s words continue to live on.

“I will tell you that that story is magic,” John said. “The legend hasn’t died out. It’s died down, but like an old fire, it’s burning in deeper.”

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How They Look Today, Casts of ARRTI

Nicole Burdette, Mable

Brad Pitt, Paul Maclean

Emily Lloyd, Jessie Burns

Craig Sheffer, Norman Maclean

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Tom Skerritt, Rev. Maclean

Brenda Bethyn, Mrs. Maclean

Stephen Shellen, Neal Burns

Susan Taylor, Rawhide

Michael Cudlitz Chub

Joseph Gordon Levitt Young Norman

Vann Gravage Young Paul

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