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Paul Newman and Lee Marvin wearing cowboy hats Tucson, Arizona for a publicity still for Stuart Rosenberg’s 1972 comedy western film ‘Pocket Money’.
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It's still a mystery why Clayton Moore left and returned to 'The Lone Ranger'

Q Please, please, please tell me why in the third season of “The Lone Ranger,” Clayton Moore was replaced by John Hart, and then Moore returned for the fourth season.

A As anyone who grew up watching the show can tell you, Clayton Moore was the one true Lone Ranger. (Let’s just forget Klinton Spilsbury and Armie Hammer in the role, OK?) But Moore was indeed replaced for a time by John Hart, and different theories have been offered, including that Moore asked for more money or that there were creative differences between Moore and “Lone Ranger” producer George W. Trendle. The 1999 New York Times obituary for Moore says he never was told why he was fired, or why he was rehired. Moore’s daughter Dawn, in a 2014 interview available on YouTube, says Trendle believed Moore wanted a share of the merchandising revenue from the show. Since he considered actors playing a masked man were interchangeable, he fired Moore (who, according to Dawn, never would have asked for the merchandising money). But when Hart proved less appealing to audiences, Moore was brought back. (MORE)

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Clayton Moore played The Lone Ranger on the 1950s television show but, mysteriously, not for its entire run.
 
Meanderer said:
It's still a mystery why Clayton Moore left and returned to 'The Lone Ranger'

Q Please, please, please tell me why in the third season of “The Lone Ranger,” Clayton Moore was replaced by John Hart, and then Moore returned for the fourth season.

A As anyone who grew up watching the show can tell you, Clayton Moore was the one true Lone Ranger. (Let’s just forget Klinton Spilsbury and Armie Hammer in the role, OK?) But Moore was indeed replaced for a time by John Hart, and different theories have been offered, including that Moore asked for more money or that there were creative differences between Moore and “Lone Ranger” producer George W. Trendle. The 1999 New York Times obituary for Moore says he never was told why he was fired, or why he was rehired. Moore’s daughter Dawn, in a 2014 interview available on YouTube, says Trendle believed Moore wanted a share of the merchandising revenue from the show. Since he considered actors playing a masked man were interchangeable, he fired Moore (who, according to Dawn, never would have asked for the merchandising money). But when Hart proved less appealing to audiences, Moore was brought back. (MORE)

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Clayton Moore played The Lone Ranger on the 1950s television show but, mysteriously, not for its entire run.
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Moore did return for the final two seasons. He later stated that he never knew why he was replaced and then rehired. Methinks it was a contract dispute.
 
Funny, but when I was a kid during WWII we had a theater that showed a Roy Rogers movie almost every Saturday. Well, I fell in love with Roy and vowed to marry him when I grew up. This infatuation continued until I was about 11 years old, and then puberty began rearing its ugly head and I quite forgot Mr. Rogers. Fast forward 10 years, and now I am a registered nurse working at a hospital in Burbank, CA. Lo and behold, one of my patients is none other than Mrs. Rogers, aka Dale Evans. When Roy came in to visit, I took one look at him and my first thought was; "Whatever was I thinking?" Oh, he was still good looking, but he was not larger than life at all. He also, was quite shy and they were both lovely people. Haven't thought of this in years.
 
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Oh, Man, Roy Rogers, everyone's "All American Cowboy." I remember his TV show on Saturday morning's with Pat Brady and his jeep, "Nellie Belle", Trigger, Bullet and of course, Dale Evans and her horse, Buttercup or something like that. Yeah, I'd watch every Saturday morning to see who he was rescuing on that day. How many Triggers were there? Probably about as many Lassies. Now, if I had to name my favorite TV cowboy show, well, that may be difficult. Just too many really good guys. No bad guys ever got their own show, did they? We did have some bad guys that were actually good guys with their own show, like Paladin. Maybe Rawhide, Wagon Train, Laramie, Bat Masterson, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, Palladin, Death Valley Days and Wanted: Dead or Alive. Also enjoyed; The Lone Ranger, The Rifleman, Bonanza and to some extent The Big Valley, which was my Mom's favorite because she liked Barbara 'what's her name.' Oh, yeah, can't forget Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy and Wild Bill Hickok with Andy Divine. Zorro & Poncho, not so much.

My dad watched any western cowboy movie or TV show, but I think Gunsmoke was his favorite. Nothing like the old west to stir up good imaginations within us kids. I mean, who didn't get a set of six-shooters for Christmas? We used to sit around and talk about what life would have been like for us if we had lived back then. For me, it would have been, how did they ever get along without electricity and a refrigerator? Today, it would be like, "How did they ever get along without a microwave and a cell phone?" My dad was a man's man. He never showed me that he had any fears. All macho, being career Army. I did see him cry one time and that was when his Dad (our Pappy) died. He died on my Dad's birthday. My dad was pissed and sad all at the same time. Pissed because he died on his birthday and sad because his dad died.

I can remember when my dad, his brother (my uncle) and I would play old country songs. One day, I was maybe 14 or 15, my dad said he wanted to play "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". My uncle said that he remembered it, but I needed the music to follow after. After we had finished, my uncle said that Roy and his group, The Sons of the Pioneers sounded better. He said Roy had the Sons of the Pioneers and we were the SOB's. Funny, how stuff like comes to mind. My fav cowboy song, "Back In the Saddle Again." Gene Autry. Very easy to play, just 4 chords playing rhythm.
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When I was a kid, there was a theater in town that showed Roy Rogers movies a couple of times a month and I never missed one. I vowed I'd marry him when I grew up. About 10 years later, I'd become a registered nurse and was working in a hospital in Burbank, CA. Dale Evans was one of my patients and when I met Roy, all I thought was, "what was I thinking back then?" He looked the same but was a smaller man than I thought and he looked the same, but the appeal was gone. Very nice people though.
 
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That's great. He would sound better if he were in an acoustic friendly room, but even still, he sounds good and I like the song. I also play the guitar, but am not as good as this man. I noticed this gentleman picks with two fingers. Don't see that much anymore, except on acoustic guitars. By picking with two fingers, it sounds like two guitarists playing.
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Lots of good YouTube videos on picking with thumb and 3 fingers.
 
A True Cowboy Poet - Scott Reesor

"In today's hi-tech world with the focus on TV and the internet many people don't know about the longstanding tradition of Cowboy Poetry. Back in the day, after a hard day of work, cowboys would gather around a campfire and entertain one another with tall tales and folk songs. Illiteracy was common, so poetic forms were used to aid memory and stories were passed down through generations. Many poets tend to focus on the historic cowboy lifestyle, but one thing is usually certain, and that is how Cowboy poetry captures the moment using romantic imagery."

 
WHEN YOU CHEEK HIM
by Bruce Kiskaddon (1878-1950)

You caint figger out what a broncho will do
He is bound to start trouble before you git through.
He might rair and fall backwards, and maybe he'll run,
And maybe he'll buck like a son of a gun.

Sometimes he may jest go a trottin' around,
And there's chances ag'in he might grunt and lay down.
He might go hog wild and shore beller and brawl,
And sometimes he will sulk and he won't go atall.

You pull up your belt and you pull your hat tight,
Fer it shore sets a feller to thinkin' allright.
But it isn't no time to git skeery or weak,
When you grab the old horn and the hacamore cheek.

You make up your mind you will stay there and ride
If he bucks till the brand slips a foot on his hide,
For the worst time in ridin' a broncho, I've found,
Is when your last foot is jest leavin' the ground.

...by Bruce Kiskaddon


This poem appeared in the Los Angeles Union Stockyards calendar in February, 1936, along with its illustration by Katherine Field (1908-1951).

According to Bill Siems' "Open Range," which includes almost all of Kiskaddon's nearly 500 poems, Frank M. King wrote an article about Katherine Field in the July 12, 1938 issue of Western Livestock Journal. King tells that she was a "natural," without any formal training. He also writes of Kiskaddon and calls him a "natural" as well. He comments, "Bruce is an old cowhand who just naturally thinks in rhymes. He never took no poem lessons, nor for that matter not many of any other sort of lessons, but he's got 'em all tied to a snubbin' post when it comes to building cowboy and range poetry..."

Find more about Kiskaddon in our features at CowboyPoetry.com: cowboypoetry.com/kisk.htm.
 

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