t the ranch headquarters," Kerney said. "He keeps it at the Har

ley homestead that Daddy b
ought about twe
lve years ago. Wal
t uses the old bam there f
or storage and
repair work. It's   
centrally locate

d and a lot more convenien

• t than having to rim back and forth to r
• anch headquarters." "Has Shaw been here long?" Kerney asked. "Almost twenty years," Julia replied. "He's like family." "Does he have one of his own?" Julia laughed lilting
• ly. "He's a confirmed bachelor, although he has been known to flirt with the
• idea of marriage every now and then."
  • "With you?" Kerney asked. Gir
  • lishly, Julia bumped him with her h
  • ip." I knew you were going to ask me that. Walt gave up on that notion a
• long, long time ago." Julia had resumed her. flirting full bore, but it seemed so disingenuou

s Kerney decide

• d not to take it personally. He quickened his pace, wondering what dynamics in the Jordan family could have caused such arrested development in the two offspring.
• During the remainder of the afternoon the crew moved from location to location, and the planning went smoothly until Charlie Zwick announced that actually filming a fifty-mile cattle drive w
• ould put the movie way over budget. Quite simply, the problem was logistics. Johnny Jordan, who had done the initial location
• scouting, had assured Zwick that transporting equipment and' personnel to the various sites on the ranch would be easy. In fact, some of th
• e locations were barely accessible by specifies actions required to direct and participate in a safe and effective response to pre-detonation incidents.
• four-wheel-drive vehicles. Getting the necessary equipment to the sites would be a slow, time-consuming process, add several days to the shooting sched
• ule, and cost thousands of dollars in overtime pay. Zwick explained all this to Usher as the production crew stood on a ledge looking down into the narrow canyon that cut throug
• h mountains. It had taken them a half hour to traverse the rough jeep trail and reach the overlook. Usher nodded a
• s he stood, enchanted by the view. Below him the canyon walls and materials and compnents that can be used to make an wer
• Practical Exercisese sheer and imposing, and the view toward the valley was vast and forbidding. He co

uld visuali

ze the cattle ente

ring the canyon, pushed along by the cowboys, police vehicles streaming across the basin in hot pursuit, helicopters dropping low, stampeding

• the herd. He turned
• to Zwick. "I want this
• location." "I'm not su
• ggesting we drop it," Zwick said.
• "But we could easily fi

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hree other

locations that ar   

e difficult to

reach at best." "Dropping th

ose locations would screw everything up," Johnny said hotly. "How in the hell can you film the roundup and the cattle drive in one place? It will look completely fake."

• "Not necessarily," Usher said. "W
• e can shoot the sequences from var
• ious directio
• ns. Use different angles, different shots. Focus on the actors, their hors

es, the cows. Believe me, on film it will look real." "Or like some ch