A film crew based out of Des Moines, Iowa gathers around a tree on the Crain/VanNatta-8-Ranch in Lampasas County while working on its production of “Big Iron.” COURTESY PHOTO
The Lampasas County terrain should give the filmmakers the type of setting they need for the Old West film, based on a Marty Robbins song about an Arizona Ranger and his shootout with an outlaw named Texas Red. COURTESY PHOTO
A group of young friends working together on short films decided to pursue production of “Big Iron,” based on a Marty Robbins country & western single released in 1960.
The song tells of an Arizona Ranger who rides into Agua Fria to shoot it out with an outlaw named Texas Red. He uses his “big iron” – a .45 caliber copy of the Colt single-action Army revolver.
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