RadishRose
Forever in Our Hearts
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- Connecticut, USA
Cowboy Heros
- Thread starter Meanderer
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Pappy
Living the Dream
Aunt Bea
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HiDesertHal
Senior Member
How many of those Cowboy actors can you identify?
I can identify only James Garner.
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I can identify only James Garner.
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Eric's Heroes: Fred Oldfield, cowboy artist (View Gallery)
HiDesertHal
Senior Member
James Arness also played in the 1951 sci-fi thriller "The Thing From Another World".
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IKE
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- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
Glenn Strange
Beginning in 1949, he portrayed Butch Cavendish, the villain responsible for killing all of the Texas Rangers except one in the long-running television series The Lone Ranger.
Also remembered for his role as Sam Noonan, the popular bartender on CBS's Gunsmoke television series.
Beginning in 1949, he portrayed Butch Cavendish, the villain responsible for killing all of the Texas Rangers except one in the long-running television series The Lone Ranger.
Also remembered for his role as Sam Noonan, the popular bartender on CBS's Gunsmoke television series.
HiDesertHal
Senior Member
The Autopsy Report stated that Marion Mitchell Morrison (John Wayne) had 40 pounds of impacted fecal matter in his Colon.
Elvis had 60 pounds!
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Elvis had 60 pounds!
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A 'Last Look' at the Old-Time American Cowboy
"When LIFE profiled a cowboy for the Aug. 22, 1949, issue, with photographs by Leonard McCombe, the land on which the cowboy once slept was already dotted with new ranch houses, and office jobs were looking more and more attractive as the post-war economy boomed. "Like the frontiersman and the forty-niner, the traditional cowboy is a peculiarly American type, now following them into an honorable extinction," the story noted.
"He is being replaced by feebler men, who refuse to work grueling hours, to go wifeless and broke to the end of their days."
"In fact, the story was billed as a "last look" at the "oldtime cowboy."
The man at the center of that tale was Clarence Hailey "C.H." Long, a 20-year Texan veteran of the profession who found freedom in a life of solitude and physical hardship. He personally trained all 13 of the horses he used to do his job, and his home on the range looked "exactly as a moviegover would expect."
"But in that fact, LIFE acknowledged, lay one of the more subtle truths about the past and future of the cowboy lifestyle".
"Even as C.H. Long was a living embodiment of a beloved, but endangered culture, he was already part of a myth forged by Hollywood and dime-store novels, not reality. He knew that the cowboy image that the the world celebrated was sometimes more appealing than even the most rewarding liberties of life on the cattle trail".
"And on his rare trips into town, he picked up magazines full of Western stories, which he dismissed as "claptrap", but loved nonetheless, "forgetting his adventurous life to search for adventure in lurid accounts of wild affairs that never happened."
"When LIFE profiled a cowboy for the Aug. 22, 1949, issue, with photographs by Leonard McCombe, the land on which the cowboy once slept was already dotted with new ranch houses, and office jobs were looking more and more attractive as the post-war economy boomed. "Like the frontiersman and the forty-niner, the traditional cowboy is a peculiarly American type, now following them into an honorable extinction," the story noted.
"He is being replaced by feebler men, who refuse to work grueling hours, to go wifeless and broke to the end of their days."
"In fact, the story was billed as a "last look" at the "oldtime cowboy."
The man at the center of that tale was Clarence Hailey "C.H." Long, a 20-year Texan veteran of the profession who found freedom in a life of solitude and physical hardship. He personally trained all 13 of the horses he used to do his job, and his home on the range looked "exactly as a moviegover would expect."
"But in that fact, LIFE acknowledged, lay one of the more subtle truths about the past and future of the cowboy lifestyle".
"Even as C.H. Long was a living embodiment of a beloved, but endangered culture, he was already part of a myth forged by Hollywood and dime-store novels, not reality. He knew that the cowboy image that the the world celebrated was sometimes more appealing than even the most rewarding liberties of life on the cattle trail".
"And on his rare trips into town, he picked up magazines full of Western stories, which he dismissed as "claptrap", but loved nonetheless, "forgetting his adventurous life to search for adventure in lurid accounts of wild affairs that never happened."
Some really great pictures in that article. Thanks for posting
RadishRose
Forever in Our Hearts
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- Connecticut, USA
Meanderer, that was so touching! How well I remember him and Tonto. My dad and I would watch the show together very often. Thanks!
RadishRose
Forever in Our Hearts
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- Connecticut, USA
RadishRose
Forever in Our Hearts
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- Connecticut, USA
at about 1:34 you'll see "Rusty" at age 73.
Happyflowerlady
Vagabond Flowerchild
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- Northern Alabama
Next to Roy Rogers , my favorite singing cowboy and hero, was Rex Allen. I loved the sound of his voice when he sang, and thought that his horse, KoKo was just as magnificent as Roy's famous horse, Trigger.
My first favorite that Rex sang was called "Streets of Laredo , a sad cowboy song. The other side of the record was an upbeat song called "Albino Pink-eyed Stallion", and I think I wore out both sides of that record on my little portable phonograph. (One of those that came in kind of a little suitcase box)
Rex Allen also narrated a lot of the older Walt Disney movies and television specials, and did a great job with that,too.
If we have any tributes to Rex Allen in this thread, I might have missed them; but here is one of my favorites and one that truly shows his voice.
And thank you for the "encore" song, Meanderer !
My first favorite that Rex sang was called "Streets of Laredo , a sad cowboy song. The other side of the record was an upbeat song called "Albino Pink-eyed Stallion", and I think I wore out both sides of that record on my little portable phonograph. (One of those that came in kind of a little suitcase box)
Rex Allen also narrated a lot of the older Walt Disney movies and television specials, and did a great job with that,too.
If we have any tributes to Rex Allen in this thread, I might have missed them; but here is one of my favorites and one that truly shows his voice.
And thank you for the "encore" song, Meanderer !
Happyflowerlady
Vagabond Flowerchild
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- Northern Alabama
Not a real cowboy, but a real "Singing Cowboy", and one of my most favorite ones, is Don Williams. It is hard to choose which song to share, because I think that I enjoy just about everything that he sings; but this one is definitely right up there at the top of the list.
When Don was here in Huntsville, my daughter took me to his concert, and he just sat up there on his stool and sang to us for an hour or so, and it was like just sitting around at home and listening to him sing, he is just so laid back. Most of us sang along with Don when he sang our favorites, and he seemed to think that was okay, too. It was one of those special times that will always be in my memories.
When Don was here in Huntsville, my daughter took me to his concert, and he just sat up there on his stool and sang to us for an hour or so, and it was like just sitting around at home and listening to him sing, he is just so laid back. Most of us sang along with Don when he sang our favorites, and he seemed to think that was okay, too. It was one of those special times that will always be in my memories.