In his post on Brian Garfield, Roy mentions that he "also had
a short-lived series about a modern western sheriff who was
always tracking people in the desert." If it's the series I'm
thinking about, the character, Sam Watchman, wasn't a sheriff
but an Arizona State Trooper. He was also a full-blooded
Navajo which made the character an interesting comparison
with Hillerman's tribal cops, Leaphorn and Chee.
The two books featuring Watchman are *Relentless*, about the
tracking of a gang of bank robbers through a mountain
blizzrd, and *The Threepersons Hunt*, about the tracking of
an Inidan suspect in a murder whom Sam comes to believe might
be innocent.
*Relentless* was made into a rather well-done TV-movie with
an Indian actor named (if memory serves) Will Sampson as
Watchman. This was the very first Hollywood production in
which an Indian lead character was played by an Indian
actor.
JIM DOHERTY
-- # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 11 Jan 2000 EST