Western hero

It’s more than the hat, the horse, the boots, and the big screen. Our favorite movie heroes have that cowboy charisma. The movies have introduced thousands of cowboys: straight-shooting sheriffs and bloodthirsty bandits, humble family men and brave pioneers, genuine Old West legends and fictional characters that seem as real as the friends we had lunch with yesterday. So how could we possibly choose 15 of the greatest? Suffice it to say, with much difficulty and no definitive answers. This…

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Don "Red" Barry as Red Ryder with Tommy Cook as Little Beaver Bruce Cabot, Kent Taylor, William Bendix, Barton MacLane, Richard Arlen and Lon Chaney, Jr--an AC Lyles cast if ever I saw one. Jimmie Dodd went from "mesquiteer" to "mousketeer" Early sixties shot of former movie Mesquiteers Max Terhune (with Elmer) and Ray "Crash" Corrigan. Wild Bill Elliott, Bob Livingston, Don "Red" Barry, Roy Rogers, Allan "Rocky" Lane (later the voice of Mr. Ed) and Sunset Carson. Alan Ladd in THE…

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RANGER - 1949-57, The adventures of masked hero, The Lone Ranger and his Native American partner, Tonto ,

Actor. Born John Lawrence Russell, he is probably best remembered for his role as 'Marshal Dan Troop' on the ABC Western television series Lawman that aired from 1958 until 1962. A rugged, handsome, and tall (he was six feet three inches), his career spanned six decades. Following high school, he attended the...

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Tom Selleck looks back at his sharpshooting Aussie western, Quigley Down Under. Tom Selleck believes the 30th anniversary of his popular big-screen western Quigley Down Under is worth celebrating — and knew exactly how he wanted to do it. “I called a guy who restores antique firearms and had him restore an 1878 Colt revolver,” Selleck says. That gun does not appear in the film, but Selleck thinks it’s the kind Quigley would have chosen. “If he owned a handgun, it would be a state-of-the-art…