Just from memory (no Googling) name the old B Western Cowboys

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This morning over coffee, my wife and I started naming those old guys and came up with maybe 20 before it became obvious that I was going to need IMDb or some other fansite to add much to my memory.

Aside from the obvious Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy, who all can you name from the pre-TV era B Western movies?

Sidekicks a bonus. Horses, too. :slight_smile:

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Randolph Scott
Tom Mix
ETA: Tex Ritter

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Tom Mix(horse=Tony), The Three Mesquiteers(Ken Maynard(Tarzan), Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele), Lightning Tim McCoy, Buck Jones, Jimmy Wakely, Tex Ritter, Buster Crabbe, Lash Larue. For starters.

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Johnny Mack Brown(Fuzzy Knight).

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Did you know that JMB played football for the University of Alabama?

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Sunset Carson. Gabby Hayes.

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  • Charles Starrett (The Durango Kid) sidekick: Smiley Burnette
  • Rex Allen
  • Allan “Rocky” Lane
  • Jimmy Wakely
  • Bill Elliott (sp?) as Red Ryder and Little Beaver (played by Robert Blake!)
  • Cisco Kid and Pancho (Duncan Renaldo and ?)
  • Dave “Tex” O’Brien was with Buster Crabbe and Al “Fuzzy” St. John in some trio like the The Three Mesquiteers, but I have been unable to locate their name as that trio
  • Whip Wilson
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Cisco’s horse(at least in the tv series=Diablo. Pancho was Leo Carillo.

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Horses

Hopalong Cassidy --Topper
Dale Evans --Buttermilk
Gene Autry --Champion
Tom Mix --Tony the Wonder Horse
Tonto and Little Beaver (I think) --Scout
Lone Ranger --Silver
Zorro’s --Tornado

Sidekick
Rogers - Pat Brady
Autry - Pat Butrum

Brady’s Jeep —Nelliebelle

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I have a ring that belonged to my dad. It has a cowboy and the letters H and G on either side. It took me a long time to figure out that it was a Hoot Gibson ring. My dad probably was 10 or 12 when he got it, maybe around 1930.

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Wow! That has to be valuable. Get it to Antiques Roadshow and have them appraise it.

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All those guys were regulars in the movies on the original Howdy Doody Show – when Uncle Bob Smith (pre-Buffalo Bob) did the introductions and Mr. Bluster was comic relief instead of a villan. Colonel Tim McCoy was, I think, a real colonel - in the Army - in World War One.

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Here’s one from my neck of the woods:
Tex Terry

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John Wayne was in a large number of B-movies before hitting it big. Often with George (later Gabby) Hayes.

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Lash LaRue
William S. Hart
Fuzzy St. John
Andy Devine (sidekick to both John Wayne and Roy Rogers)

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Let’s sing along with the Statler Brothers!

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Ken Curtis.

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STARS

Jack Palance
Gregory Peck
Gary Cooper
Barbara Stanwyck

Character actors who frequently appeared in westerns:

Dub Taylor
Fran Ryan
Marjorie Main
Jay Silverheels
Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Chief Dan George
Jeff Corey
Woody Strode

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Here is a rather extensive list of the stars.

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Thanks. I think we got as many on our own as we were gonna.

Sammy Baugh.

Anecdote–I saw Sammy Baugh quarterback for the Washington Redskins his last season. I think it was with our Cub Scout pack. Meant little to me at the time.

Sammy Baugh had a western series of shorts on Sat. morning on local Wash. D.C. tv.

I used to watch those.