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Roll Along, Cowboy

1937 film by Gus Meins

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionSep 23, 2026

Entity authoritySource title only

Source-derived summary

Roll Along, Cowboy is a 1937 American Western film directed by Gus Meins. It is based on the 1931 novel The Dude Ranger by Zane Grey, and is the second adaptation of the novel, after the 1934 film The Dude Ranger.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Roll Along, Cowboy” as 1937 film by Gus Meins. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1931, 1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Roll, Along and Cowboy can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1937 film by Gus Meins. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1937, 1931 and 1934.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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Identifying works and editions
Tracing reception history
Finding collection records

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Roll Along, Cowboy”, its source revision and the description used here.
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Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Roll Along, Cowboy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.