The little boy who loved horses, cowboys and the West

 

Once there was a little boy who was born during the middle of World War II.

In the earliest years of his life, between 1942 and 1949, major world events included the continuation of World War II, the development of nuclear weapons, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the emergence of new nations and ideologies. 

The war ended in 1945, followed by the Berlin blockade and the Berlin airlift, the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, the first Soviet atomic bomb test, and the formation of the People's Republic of China. 

During those early years of his life, Americans primarily obtained news of world events through radio, newspapers, magazines, and film newsreels shown at movie theaters.

Youngsters attending elementary school between 1948 and 1955, enjoyed a better disciplined learning experience with a stronger focus on reading, writing, mathematics and science than today.

In Woodland Hills California, between 1949 and 1957, life for this boy was a mix of rural country charm and the growing influence of post-war suburbanization. It was a period of expansion and change, as the area transitioned from a rural community to a more developed one. 

The post-war economic boom provided more disposable income for families, who could afford new homes, cars, and other consumer goods. 

But, the Soviet Union's 1949 nuclear test and the ensuing Cold War climate instilled a pervasive fear of nuclear annihilation in American society, especially for children. This fear led to widespread initiatives to prepare for a potential nuclear attack, such as "Duck and Cover" drills in schools. 

Children were actively involved in Cold War propaganda, with schools emphasizing American patriotism and anti-communism.

The precariousness of the Cold War times was simultaneously counteracted in the early 1950s, when numerous cowboy stars transitioned from the silver screen to the small screen with successful television westerns.

Cowboy heroes, like Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger, significantly impacted American culture between 1949 and 1957, particularly through their presence in television and film. 

Their narratives, often focused on simple plots with good triumphing over evil, resonating with viewers, especially children, and contributed to the popularity of the Western genre. 

The cowboy hero resonated with American values of individualism, courage, and the pursuit of justice, particularly in the context of the American frontier myth. 

This myth, which often portrays the cowboy as a lone hero confronting challenges with personal strength, continued to shape the nation's cultural landscape. 

This particular little boy had an advantage over many of his playmates. His family actually had been pioneers who had carved a living out of the American frontier. 

And, when he was just seven years old he was introduced to horses on an uncle’s real Montana ranch.

He became the little boy who loved horses, cowboys and the American West.

In 1953 his dad built a new home on a dirt road adjacent to an 1100 acre open space that had been the long abandoned Platt Ranch, and before that a Mexican Land Grant known as Rancho El Escorpión. 

So in 1954, his dad bought him his first horse, and the boy now had a freedom to roam very few youngsters ever experience.

The little boy’s father was a general contractor who built custom homes for a living, and in 1957, his family moved to the High Sierra hamlet of Oakhurst California. 

The little village was located just 13 miles south of Yosemite National Park; it had a population of 357 people, and its economy was based on employment at a small saw mill, and tourism.

The surrounding national forest was home to an extraordinary variety of wildlife, so for a young teenager with a horse it was a place of constant adventure -- hunting, fishing and trapping.

During his youth and early adult years the little boy had learned, from his father, the skills necessary to become a home builder.

The little boy, now a young man and a patriot, volunteered for the U. S. Army in 1962. He became a paratrooper and served as a Green Beret at Fort Bragg North Carolina. 

In 1965, after his service was completed, he returned to Southern California where he was engaged in residential home building until 1992.

He was now an older, wiser man who still had a passion for the history, culture, and traditions associated with the American West, particularly its cowboys and their connection to horses. 

He became a ‘cowboy folk artist’ creating Old West-inspired furniture.

His work won accolades from publications, such as Southwest Art, Sunset, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Home Magazine, and WEST Magazine whose cover featured his home in 1994. Then in 2002, he was featured on HGTV's Carol Duvall Show to demonstrate his woodcarving technique. See Rancho Deluxe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oelGU8VHYY0

In 1995, he bought a horse and kept him at a friend’s ranch in Wyoming. A year later in 1996, he brought the horse to Chatsworth California. Then a few years later, in 2000, he and his wife Joyce bought horse property in Chatsworth.

When the San Fernando Valley attempted to secede from the City of Los Angeles in 2002, He ran for office as a Valley City Councilman, and a reporter described him as a "renaissance man" and an "expert on all things Valley."

The "Valley Secession Fever web log" wrote that "his close association with the old pastoral Valley gives the media the drama they need because contradiction is dramatic; how the Valley would become the country's sixth-largest city yet its most influential citizen is a cowboy."  

From then on, his efforts as a cowboy activist seeking to protect horse-keeping and a movie historian in the Valley have become legendary.

As a Western movie historian, he researched and collected memorabilia associated with Santa Susana Mountain movie location ranches for more than two decades; and after making a guest appearance on a ReelzChannel Dailies program titled, “Hollywood Was Here - The Iverson Movie Ranch,” he decided to share his research and knowledge by writing two books: “Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas" (2008) and "Rendezvous at Boulder Pass -- Hollywood's Fantasyland" (2010).

For a quarter of a century he was known as an avid horseman whose cowboy legacy and pioneer heritage could be back-trailed for over twelve generations across the forests and prairies of North America.

His name is Jerry England, who describes himself… as an artist, writer and horseman who has been a champion of “everything horses in Chatsworth." 

He founded the Day of the Horse, a community event held every spring for the last 20 years. He wrote two books documenting all the Westerns filmed on movie ranches that used to be in the hills of Chatsworth. And he was instrumental in getting a plaque installed at the entrance of the Garden of the Gods Park to honor yesteryear’s Silver Screen Heroes and their Horses.

And as a Fur Trade Historian, Jerry explains… 

"I've always known I had some distant relatives that were French-Canadian, but until recently I didn't know anything about them.

Yet, somehow deep within my DNA, I've always carried a burning desire to learn about North America's fur trade, and her mystical forest dwellers.

More than that, I've had a love affair with canoes and canoeing for over 60 years. 

When I was a teenager, in the late 1950s, I rented canoes at Bass Lake, near Yosemite.

In 1974, I bought my first canoe, and promptly made two float trips down the Owens River in California's Eastern Sierras. Since then I have paddled hundreds of lakes and rivers across North America.

Some of my most cherished memories are of canoe trips to the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Ontario's Algonquin Park, Wyoming's Snake River, and the upper Missouri River in Montana.

In a 2011 breakthrough, I discovered my French-Canadian roots, and learned that I share DNA with more than a hundred French-Canadians that were involved in the fur trade between 1620 and 1820.

I guess it explains my love of canoeing, and those magical silent places that can only be reached by paddle and portage."

Beginning of the end…

So, in the end, life for the little boy who loved horses has been pretty darn good. It has been a life filled with adventure and a passion for horses, cowboys and the American West.

Jerry adds... except for my last horse Kasidy, who lives with a good friend in Montana, all my horses have crossed over the Great Divide and are fond memories.

I still write a few blog posts now and then, but mostly I’m just happy to visit with my grandsons occasionally, and to reflect on past adventures and a life well lived.

Adios and happy trails…

ANTIQUE WOODWORKER'S TOOL CHEST c. 1900

 

About 1975, when I was a collector of antique early American tools, I found an extraordinary tool chest of woodworking tools in an antique shop on Ventura Blvd. in Studio City California.

Patent dates on the tools ranged from the 1880s to the 1920s. Many of the tools were marked with the owners initials, H.K., so they became an imaginary Henry Kaufman’s tool chest.

Over the next few years I added a few age appropriate items to the chest, and when I left the corporate world in 1992, I began using those tools on a daily basis to craft my 'cowboy chic' furniture. 

In time they became old friends.

I quit building furniture over 20 years ago in 2002, and finally sold the chest a decade ago.

I stumbled onto these photos yesterday, so I decided to share them with you. Maybe tool collecting will become fashionable again in the future.

I sure had some high times building cowboy folk art furniture in the 1990s.

See: https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2021/04/cowboy-chic-funiture-by-lure-of-dim.html

Happy Trails

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A TREASURE CHEST!

 

When I was a small boy my mom would sometimes share a look into her cedar chest. 

The chest was originally built by my grandfather about 1935, and presented to my mom upon her engagement to dad. 

Granddad had completed a Joiner's apprenticeship in London England before immigrating to the USA, so his dovetails were amazing.

Mom's cedar chest was filled with trinkets and treasures... photos, autograph books, costume jewelry, souvenirs and post cards, hankies, a wedding dress, newspaper clippings, and a sock full of silver dollars, etc.

Years, after mom crossed over the Great Divide it became my treasure chest, so I filled it with cowboy treasures… spurs, holsters, belts, buckles, chinks, stampede strings, owl feathers, etc. 

Now, last year, it came full circle when I passed it on to my son Michael.

SILVER SCREEN HEROES in Chatsworth Movies

Reel Cowboys, Cowgirls, Indians, Sidekicks, Horses of course & more

Reel Cowboys

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Wild Bill Elliott

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-wild-bill.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- William S. Hart

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-william-s.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Tom Mix

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-tom-mix.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Gene Autry

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-gene.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Rex Allen

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-rex-allen.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-william.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Bob Steele

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-bob.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Buck Jones

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-buck.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Charles Starrett

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-charles.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Clayton Moore

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-clayton.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Dick Foran

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-dick.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Duncan Renaldo

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-duncan.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Eddie Dean

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-eddie.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Buster Crabbe

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-buster.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- George O'Brien

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-george.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Hoot Gibson

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-hoot.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- John Wayne

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-john.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Johnny Mack Brown

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-johnny.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Ray Corrigan

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-ray.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Ken Maynard

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-ken.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Lash LaRue

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-lash.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Dave O'Brien

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-dave.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Roy Rogers

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-roy.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Don Barry

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-don-barry.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Rocky Lane

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-rocky.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Tim McCoy

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-tim-mccoy.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Robert Livingston

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-robert.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Sunset Carson

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-sunset.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Gilbert Roland

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-gilbert.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Tim Holt

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-tim-holt.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Gary Cooper

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-gary.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Rod Cameron

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-rod.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Randolph Scott

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-randolph.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Tom Tyler

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-tom-tyler.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jock Mahoney

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-jock.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- George Montgomery

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-george.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Wayne Morris

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-wayne.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- George Houston

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-george_30.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- James Ellison

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-james.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Tom Keene

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-tom-keene.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Tex Ritter

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-tex.htm

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Monte Hale

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-monte.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Russell Hayden

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-russell.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Whip Wilson

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-whip.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Kermit Maynard

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-kermit.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Glenn Ford

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-glenn.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Addison 'Jack' Randall

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-addison.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Hal Taliaferro

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-hal.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Harry Carey

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-harry.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Rex Bell

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-rex-bell.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jack Perrin

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-jack.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- William Holden

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-william.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jack Luden

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-jack_18.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Joel McCrea

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-joel.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Kirby Grant

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-kirby.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Fred MacMurray

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-fred.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jon Hall

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-jon-hall.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Preston Foster

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-preston.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Audie Murphy

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-audie.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Rory Calhoun

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-rory.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Sterling Hayden

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-sterling.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Forrest Tucker

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-forrest.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Errol Flynn

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/10/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-errol.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jim Bannon

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/11/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-jim-bannon.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Lee Powell

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/11/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-lee-powell.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jim Davis

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/12/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-jim-davis.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Harry Carey

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/12/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-harry.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Richard Dix

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/12/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-richard.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Fred Scott

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/12/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-fred-scott.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- John Carradine

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-john.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Robert Taylor

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/08/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-robert.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Bill Williams

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-bill.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Guy Madison

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-guy.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Ward Bond

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-ward-bond.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Walter Brennan

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-walter.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Grant Withers

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-grant.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- John Carroll

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-john.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Philip Carey

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-philip.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jack Hoxie

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/12/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-jack-hoxie.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Brian Donlevy

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/11/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-brian.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- James Brown

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/10/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-james.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Andy Devine

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/09/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-andy.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Reb Russell

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/08/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-reb.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Charles Bronson

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/08/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-charles.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Robert Mitchum

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-robert.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- James Garner

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-james.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- William Bishop

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-william.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Victor Mature

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-victor.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Alan Ladd

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-alan-ladd.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Noah Beery Jr.

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-noah.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-guinn-big.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Wallace Beery

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-wallace.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Rex Reason

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-rex-reason.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Richard Boone

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-richard.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Lloyd Bridges

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-lloyd.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Dennis Morgan

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-dennis.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Ken Curtis

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-ken-curtis.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- John Agar

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/12/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-john-agar.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Bob Allen

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/11/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-bob-allen.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Howard Duff

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/11/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-howard.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- James Arness

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/10/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-james.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Dan Duryea

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/09/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-dan-duryea.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- John Payne

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/09/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-john-payne.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- John Hodiak

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/08/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-john.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jimmy Wakely

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-jimmy.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Reed Hadley

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-reed.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Johnny Carpenter

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-johnny.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Richard Arlen

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/06/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-richard.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- David Sharpe

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-david.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Raymond Hatton

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-raymond.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Hank Bell

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/05/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-hank-bell.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Anthony Quinn

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-anthony.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- John Derek

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-john-derek.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Tyrone Power

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/03/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-tyrone.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Dale Robertson

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-dale.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Henry Fonda

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-henry.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Scott Brady

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/02/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-scott.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Warner Baxter

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/01/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-warner.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Fred Scott

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/12/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-fred-scott.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Bob Baker

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-bob-baker.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Ernest Borgnine

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-ernest.html

Reel Cowgirls

Reel Cowgirls of the Santa Susanas -- Barbara Stanwyck

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/10/reel-cowgirls-of-santa-susanas-barbara.html

Reel Cowgirls of the Santa Susanas -- Peggy Stewart

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/reel-cowgirls-of-santa-susanas-peggy.html

Reel Cowgirls of the Santa Susanas -- Nell O'Day

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/05/reel-cowgirls-of-santa-susanas-nell-oday.html

Rendezvous at Boulder Pass -- Cowboy's sweethearts (1935-45)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/rendezvous-at-boulder-pass-cowboys.html

Barbara Stanwyck, Rita Hayworth, Nell O'Day, Gene Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Linda Stirling

Rendezvous at Boulder Pass -- Cowboy's sweethearts (1945-50)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/rendezvous-at-boulder-pass-cowboys_26.html

Beverly Lloyd, Peggy Stewart, Loretta Young, Dale Evans, Martha O'Driscoll, Jennifer Jones, Judy Garland, Evelyn Keyes, Janet Shaw, Yvonne De Carlo

Rendezvous at Boulder Pass -- Cowboy's sweethearts (1950-60)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/rendezvous-at-boulder-pass-cowboys_27.html

Evelyn Ankers, Lucille Ball, Ellen Drew, Jane Russell, Wanda Hendrix, Barbara Stanwyck, Anita Ekberg, Rhonda Fleming

Reel Indians

Reel Indians of the Santa Susanas -- Jay Silverheels

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/03/reel-indians-of-santa-susanas-jay.html

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Wallace Beery

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/04/reel-cowboys-of-santa-susanas-wallace.html

Reel Indians of the Santa Susanas -- Chief Thundercloud

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/04/reel-indians-of-santa-susanas-chief.html

Reel Indians of the Santa Susanas -- Iron Eyes Cody

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/04/reel-indians-of-santa-susanas-iron-eyes.html

Movie Horses

Four Legged Pals -- Those Wonderful Movie Horses

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/09/four-legged-pals-those-wonderful-movie.html

Four Legged Pals -- More Wonderful Movie Horses - part 2

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/09/four-legged-pals-more-wonderful-movie.html

Four Legged Pals -- More Wonderful Movie Horses - part 3

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/09/four-legged-pals-more-wonderful-movie_14.html

MISC

Reel Mounties in the Santa Susanas

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/08/reel-mounties-in-santa-susanas.html

Reel Buffalo Bills in the Santa Susanas

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/04/reel-buffalo-bills-in-santa-susanas.html

Reel Annie Oakleys in the Santa Susanas

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/05/reel-annie-oakleys-in-santa-susanas.html

Billy The Kid in the Santa Susanas

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/04/billy-kid-in-santa-susanas.html

'Wait for me, Wild Bill!' -- Chatsworth's TV Westerns

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/wait-for-me-wild-bill-chatsworths-tv.html

Rendezvous at Boulder Pass -- Superhero cliffhangers

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/rendezvous-at-boulder-pass-superhero.html

Rendezvous at Boulder Pass -- The Great Communicator

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/rendezvous-at-boulder-pass-great.html

Homage to six-gun heroes and their gallant horses

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/homage-to-six-gun-heroes-and-their.html

Double R Bar Ranch -- Roy Rogers’ Chatsworth Home

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/double-r-bar-ranch-roy-rogers.html

Reel Cowboys and the code of the west

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/reel-cowboys-and-code-of-west.html

Reel Little Cowboy of the Santa Susanas -- Robert "Bobby" Winckler

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/09/reel-little-cowboy-of-santa-susanas.html

Reel Little Cowboy of the Santa Susanas -- Don Reynolds

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/01/reel-little-cowboy-of-santa-susanas-don.html

Reel Sidekicks of the Santa Susanas -- Gabby Hayes

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/01/reel-sidekicks-of-santa-susanas-gabby.html

Reel Sidekicks of the Santa Susanas -- Emmett Lynn

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2015/02/reel-sidekicks-of-santa-susanas-emmett.html