A drifting cowboy

An old cowboy's thoughts about horses, canoes, fishing, art, movies, family, and the American West

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Brandeis Movie Ranch -- Hickeyville

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'Hickeyville' in Gene Autry's The Singing Cowboy (1936) The Brandeis Movie Ranch was located immediately west of, and co...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Fighting Seabees (1944)

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The Fighting Seabees (1944) starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Dennis O'Keefe is a highly fictionalized interpretation of the e...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Jack Luden

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Jack Luden (1902-1951) was an American cowboy actor.  His is one of the saddest stories in Hollywood.  He was born into a wealthy family...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Things aren't always what they seem

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In the movies a galloping rider -- like the actor above dressed as an Indian -- might not actually be racing across the Iverson Ranch… ...
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Reel Cowboys and the code of the west

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During the last century Hollywood created gallant Six-Gun heroes that lived in a mythical West.  They were the white-hatted 'good gu...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Meanwhile back at the ranch -- Iverson Ranch Set

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Some early cinema researchers called the Iverson's ranch set the 'Middle Ranch,' but it was actually located on the eastern ...
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My goal in writing this blog is to answer to the questions I wish I had asked my granddad... I am a horseman, a canoeist, a Western movie historian, a genealogist, and a folk artist. My cowboy and voyageur legacy can be back-trailed for more than twelve generations in North America.
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