Article: Viggo Mortensen Rides Tall in Cowboys & Indians Magazine.

DALLAS, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The last time Viggo Mortensen cowboyed up on the big screen, he was a long-distance endurance racer in 2004's "Hidalgo." But in "Appaloosa," the eagerly awaited Western drama previewed in the October issue of Cowboys and Indians magazine, he's shooting straight and riding hard as a lawman in one of the most lawless towns of the Wild West.

Based on the best-selling novel by Robert B. Parker, "Appaloosa" follows the adventures of two veteran peacekeepers -- Virgil Cole (played by Ed Harris, who also directed the film) and Everett Hitch (Mortensen) -- who establish rough justice in an 1882 mining town. The long-time partners duly dispatch the ...

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