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driven up its main street, Exchange Avenue, with hundreds of tourists lining both sides. And when the longhorns are resting, hordes of tourists pack the area day and night. Thankfully, Mark later walked a couple of blocks up the hill to the south end of xchange and discovered a very diff erent place—a little sleepy and without all the tourists and commercial activity down below. I pitched it to Taylor, he said okay, and the seven hundred fourteen feet from Ellis Avenue to Clinton Avenue was to become our Hell's Half Acre. All we needed to do then was transform it into our "backlot" and refl ect and conform it to Taylor's vision and Hell's Half Acre as it existed circa 1883. I set to work, reading the script over and over and studying the street, fi guring out the blocking so as to integrate the individual scenes. For example, if James Dutton enters the street here, he can drive his wagon up the street to the tattoo parlor, which can become the livery stable. He can then walk back down the street past the building that can become the inkerton ce. That way, Shea and Thomas can stand in that doorway and watch him as he walks by. A. THE HORSE RACE IN HELL'S HALF ACRE. ILLUSTRATION BY KATHRYN YINGLING IN PEN/INK AND WATERCOLOR. B. HOTEL CALHOUN. BEFORE. C. HOTEL CALHOUN. AFTER. SET PHOTO. A B C