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The Big Country is a 1958 American epic Western film directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, and Charles Bickford. The supporting cast features Burl Ives and Chuck Connors .
The Big Country is a Western novel by Donald Hamilton.It was originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post as Ambush at Blanco Canyon.Published two years prior to Hamilton's Death of a Citizen, which launched his popular Matt Helm series, it explores many of the same themes of self-reliance that dominated the author's work.
Big Country's first single was "Harvest Home", recorded and released in 1982. [1]It was a modest success, although it did not reach the UK Singles Chart. [3] Their next single was 1983's "Fields Of Fire (400 Miles)", which reached the UK's Top Ten and was followed by the album The Crossing. [3]
In 2007, Butler, Watson and Brzezicki celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of Big Country by reforming for a UK tour, touring again in 2010, this time with Mike Peters joining the band for vocal duties. 2011 saw the release of a new single, the band's first new music for eleven years, before Butler retired in 2012.
Big Country is a Scottish rock band. Big Country or The Big Country may also refer to: The Big Country (Hamilton novel), a 1958 novel by Donald Hamilton The Big Country, a 1958 American western film adaptation of the novel; The Big Country, a comic book adaptation of the film; The Big Country (Timms novel), a 1962 novel by E. V. Timms ...
Written by long-time Western comics writer Paul S. Newman, and drawn by Bob Correa, The Big Country was initially serialized in The Saturday Evening Post as "Ambush at Blanco Canyon" on February 2, 9, 16 and 23, 1957. The story was collected for the first time in 1958, by Dell, as a Dell First Edition B115 paperback, and was reissued many times.
The Crossing is the debut album released by Scottish band Big Country in July 1983. The album reached #3 in the UK; overseas, it hit #4 in Canada on the RPM national Top Albums Chart and #18 in the US on the Billboard 200 in 1983.
The Big Country is a 1962 Australian novel by E. V. Timms and Alma Timms. It was the eleventh in the Great South Land Saga of novels. E. V. Timms died in 1960, before the novel was finished so his wife Alma completed it. [1] [2] He died while writing chapter five. [3] Alma began writing in October 1960.