Legends of Western Cinema Week 2025 | Kick-Off + Tag

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Welcome back to our annual celebration of the Western genre, friends!  Heidi and Rachel and I are stoked to see what you all contribute this year. 😉  Over the course of the next few days, you can expect to see reviews, giveaways, lists, games, and who knows what all?  

One of the pillars of this event is the annual tag, a list of questions or prompts that we cohosts share in order to get participation rolling.  This year's tag is below — feel free to publish your answers in your own post, or share them in a comment!

2025 Tag

Share one or more stories for each prompt:

Cliff — a tense cliffhanger
Gulch — a cool ambush scene
Canyon — a big gunfight
Mountains — high stakes
Valley — a beautiful romance
Desert — a suspenseful plot
Forest — themes about renewal
River — traveling to a new home
Plains — characters who are farmers
Mesa — an animal central to the story


Link-Up

Be sure to check out my cohosts' blogs (linked above) for all the goodness they'll be sharing this week, and be sure to share some goodness of your own!  And as you do that, remember to leave links to your posts in the widget below, either here in this post or in Heidi's or in Rachel's.  We want everyone to have the opportunity to read everyone else's contributions!


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And we're off!

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