Sentences with phrase «of old west frontier»

There's an element of Old West frontier myth associated with ultrarunning, but it's underscored by the simple fact that a bunch of people set off to run in the woods and one of them will finish before anyone else.

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SYNOPSIS: In the Old West, former Civil War - veteran John Henry returns to his frontier hometown where he must repair a fractious relationship with his Reverend father, and face the demons of his past when a -LSB-...]

Slow West Directed by John Maclean (UK, New Zealand)-- New York Premiere, Narrative At the end of the nineteenth century, 16 - year - old Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit - McPhee) journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves.

With its sprawling desert vistas and violent frontier conflict, the Outback of old isn't so far removed from the Wild West of American legend — which is why, of course, there's a whole subgenre of Aussie oaters.

Slow West (2015), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2015, stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as 16 - year - old Jay Cavendish, the son of Scottish aristocrats on a romantic (and foolhardy) journey to find the girl he loves on the 19th century American frontier, and Michael Fassbender as bounty hunter Silas who volunteers to be the boy's guide and bodyguard... for a price, of course.

The brave new world of digital content is like the Old West: a frontier where the rules get written as we go along.

With echoes of Charles Portis» True Grit, Lautner tells the frontier story of 12 - year - old Thomas and his widower father, who are ambushed as they head west, leading to Henry Stands, an intimidating former Indiana Ranger, reluctantly taking Thomas under his wing, though the boy's troubles have only begun.

Heading west to east, you can travel back in history from the cutting - edge high tech of contemporary Silicon Valley, across the Wild West frontier of the mid-1800s, and through lands the likes of Daniel Boone and countless others pioneered in the 1700s, before arriving at the Atlantic Ocean near some of the oldest and best - preserved colonial - era landscapes in the United Stawest to east, you can travel back in history from the cutting - edge high tech of contemporary Silicon Valley, across the Wild West frontier of the mid-1800s, and through lands the likes of Daniel Boone and countless others pioneered in the 1700s, before arriving at the Atlantic Ocean near some of the oldest and best - preserved colonial - era landscapes in the United StaWest frontier of the mid-1800s, and through lands the likes of Daniel Boone and countless others pioneered in the 1700s, before arriving at the Atlantic Ocean near some of the oldest and best - preserved colonial - era landscapes in the United States.

There will be a whole lot of guns in the digital old frontier according to the latest Wild West Online forum post from the MMO's developers.

Our 8 year old will learn about the frontier and history of the West.