Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Actors Who Can Ride

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From: "Bonnie Davis" <horsecamping@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Sullivan" <greymare@xxxxxxx>; <harpy@xxxxxx>; "Rides 2 Far"
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Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Actors Who Can Ride




> Also, remember that back in the 40's when westerns were king, the top
stunt
> rider was Yakama K.... (I can't spell that name).  He'd take any stunt
> offered -- almost killed a couple times.  (The stuntman in How the West
Was
> Won -- in the scene where the rail cars come loose and the 'star' is
suppost
> to be in between the turning logs -- lost his leg, bad timing and logs
> crushed him.  Stunting is not an easy occupation.)

Yakima Canutt was the name.....I just remembered it.  Haven't thought of it
for ages.


> Remember the horses -- all the stars had horses!!  And in those falling
> scenes and horses going off cliffs -- they did.  To fall, a Running W was
> used and you can see 'em in the way horses fall.  Lots of horses had to be
> shot on the set because of broken legs.  Off cliffs, they drove 'em off.
> That was before the Humane Society got into the movies.
>
> And last, Roy Rogers and Dale Evens.  She could ride -- quite well.  Roy
> could not.  He was born Lenoard Sly in Chicago and became a 'cowboy'
because
> he could sing.  He became a star because Gene Autry who was the number one
> box office cowboy joined the service (yes, joined not drafted) when WWII
> began.  As did so many other stars -- they didn't hide behind "being a
> star".  Autry went off to fight the war.  Republic Pictures needed a new
> cowboy, so Lenoard Sly became Roy Rogers and Trigger was paired with him
by
> 'Fats' Jones -- a big movie horse rental stable owner.  And of course, you
> guys know the rest.....
>

Ben Johnson was a horseman in Oklahona when "Fats" Jones needed horses.  Ben
came out to CA with the trainload of horses, met Jones' daughter (I think
her name was Carol) and married her.  Then he became a double and later a
star.  In the 1950s, I loved all the John Ford-Merrian Cooper westerns that
starred Harry Carrey, Jr., Victor McLaglin, John Wayne, Pedro Armanderaz,
and Ben Johnson. (excuse misspelling of names, if so).  I think I have all
the facts straight.........

Barbara








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