Cowboy culture is back in the saddle again. Line dancing is back in vogue, the famed Saddle Rack appears to be on the verge of a comeback, and everybody’s watching “Yellowstone.” The trend hit home for us this summer when our teenage daughter came home from a trip to New Mexico with a prized cowboy hat.

So it makes a lot of sense that the Stanford Theatre would get in on the trend. Starting Oct. 3, the Palo Alto movie palace will showcase nearly four dozen classic Westerns — including six silent films accompanied by the incomparable Dennis James at the Mighty Wurlitzer — over the last 12 weeks of the year.

For several decades — peaking in the mid-1940s to early-’60s — Westerns were the superhero movies of their day. Everybody went to see them, so studios churned more and more out every y

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