Kanab Rounds Up Screen Cowboys for Honors at Annual Western Fest

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Bruce Boxleitner has always had a soft spot in his heart for Kanab. "That's where I got my first big break. What an experience it was!"

Boxleitner was chosen to play Luke Macahan in the television series "How the West Was Won," which also starred James Arness, who had just left "Gunsmoke" after 20 seasons.

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Kanab Rounds Up Screen Cowboys for Honors at Annual Western Fest

"Jim was very excited not to be playing Matt Dillon," Boxleitner said by phone from his home in California. "And I was a young, gangly looking thing. I was 25, but I looked 17. We had a marvelous cast -- Richard Kiley, Eva Marie Saint.

"And the country was so beautiful. I remember the Parry Lodge. I remember eating b...

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