Mark Mordue is an Australian essayist, editor and poet. He is the author of the travel book Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip, Hawthorne Books, Portland, USA, 2004. His favourite Western is High Plains Drifter (1973).
No Country for Old Men's recent success at the Oscars heralds the return of the cowboy - a figure who, after decades of phenomenal popularity, had all but disappeared from the big, and small, screen
