The Culpepper Cattle Co. is a worthy example of a certain kind of early-1970s Western: deglamorized, unromantic, and frankly violent. This one begins in familiar terms, as a greenhorn lad joins a cattle drive, surrendering himself to the extremely focused leadership of boss Frank Culpepper. The episodes that follow are engrossing and colorful, and the drive gets more interesting when a quartet of lethal hombres join the ride. The business of frontier justice--which here usually means shooting strangers just to be on the safe side--is worked out in refreshingly unheroic ways. Clearly director Dick Richards (making his debut in a relatively brief directing career) is responding to the revisionist era, and specifically to the films of the great Sam Peckinpah. 　　译文(2): 牛仔路漫漫是20世纪70年代早期某种西方文化的一个有价值的例子: 去魅力化，不浪漫，坦率的暴力。这个故事开始于一个熟悉的术语，一个新手加入了赶牛队，向老板弗兰克 · 卡尔佩珀极其专注的领导投降。接下来的剧集引人入胜，色彩斑斓，当四个致命的家伙加入进来时，驾驶变得更加有趣。边境司法的工作——在这里通常意味着为了安全起见而向陌生人开枪——是以一种令人耳目一新的非英雄主义的方式进行的。显然，导演迪克 · 理查兹(在相对短暂的导演生涯中首次亮相)是在回应修正主义时代，特别是伟大的萨姆 · 佩金帕的电影。