CHATSWORTH MOVIES — updated 2024

When I started writing this blog back in October 2011, my goal was to leave for my grandsons the answers to questions I wished I had asked my granddad...

During my life I've been a soldier, a carpenter and home builder, a cowboy folk artist, a community activist, a movie historian, and a genealogist.

My blog is about all my life's passions: horses, canoeing, trout fishing, cowboy folk art, Western movies, family history, and especially fur trade history.

CHATSWORTH MOVIES are the most popular posts on my blog, so I decided to update this page with links to the most visited posts:

Films of Boulder Pass - A Comprehensive List of — Chatsworth, California — movies

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/11/films-of-boulder-pass-comprehensive-list.html

The Rock Stars of Boulder Pass (aka Santa Susana Pass)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-rock-stars-of-boulder-pass-aka.html

San Fernando Valley Horses and Movies Are Forever Linked

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/san-fernando-valley-horses-and-movies.html

Reel Cowboys, Cowgirls, etc -- Chatsworth's Six-Gun Heroes

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/11/reel-cowboys-cowgirls-etc-chatsworths.html

Chatsworth Equine Cultural Heritage Organization's Parting Gift

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2017/04/chatsworth-equine-cultural-heritage.html

UPDATED MOVIE LINKS:

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Films of Boulder Pass — A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF MOVIES FILMED IN CHATSWORTH

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/11/films-of-boulder-pass-comprehensive-list.html

Saturday, November 17, 2018

The Rock Stars of Boulder Pass (aka Santa Susana Pass)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-rock-stars-of-boulder-pass-aka.html

Friday, August 31, 2012

San Fernando Valley Horses and Movies Are Forever Linked

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/san-fernando-valley-horses-and-movies.html

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Reel Cowboys, Cowgirls, etc -- Chatsworth's Six-Gun Heroes

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/11/reel-cowboys-cowgirls-etc-chatsworths.html

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Chatsworth's Rock Stars

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/chatsworths-rock-stars.html

Monday, April 30, 2012

• Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies — Overview — older post

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_30.html

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Friday, July 18, 2014

Chatsworth's Road to Movie Magic -- Part One

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/07/chatsworths-road-to-movie-magic-part-one.html

Friday, July 18, 2014

Chatsworth's Road to Movie Magic -- Part Two

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/07/chatsworths-road-to-movie-magic-part-two.html

Monday, January 16, 2012

Meanwhile back at the ranch -- Map to rock star locations

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/meanwhile-back-at-ranch-map-to-rock.html

REEL COWBOYS, COWGIRLS AND THEIR HORSES:

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Reel Cowboys, Cowgirls and Their Hosses (2011- 2012)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/12/reel-cowboys-cowgirls-and-their-hosses.html

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Four Legged Pals -- Those Wonderful Movie Horses

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

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

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

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

Friday, September 14, 2012

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

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

OTHER CHATSWORTH AREA MOVIE LOCATIONS:

Meanwhile back at the ranch -- Rocky Peak

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/04/meanwhile-back-at-ranch-rocky-peak.html

Meanwhile back at the ranch -- Oat Mountain

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/04/meanwhile-back-at-ranch-oat-mountain.html

Brandeis Movie Ranch -- Hickeyville

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/brandeis-movie-ranch-hickeyville.html

Brandeis Movie Ranch -- Caretaker's House

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/brandeis-movie-ranch-caretakers-house.html

Brandeis Movie Ranch -- Bunkouse

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/brandeis-movie-ranch-bunkouse.html

Chatsworth Filming Location -- Railroad Depot

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/chatsworth-filming-location-railroad.html

Chatsworth Filming Location -- Railroad Tunnel 28

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/chatsworth-filming-location-railroad_02.html

Chatsworth Filming Location -- Railroad cut and tunnels

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/chatsworth-filming-location-railroad_03.html

Chatsworth filming location -- Chatsworth Reservoir

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/chatsworth-filming-location-chatsworth.html

Chatsworth filming location -- Burro Flats

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/chatsworth-filming-location-burro-flats.html

Corriganville Movie Ranch -- Overview

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/corriganville-movie-ranch-overview.html

Corriganville's Western Street -- Silvertown

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/corriganvilles-western-street-silvertown.html

Corriganville's Fort Apache and Dugout

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/corriganvilles-fort-apache-and-dugout.html

Corriganville's Robin Hood Lake

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/corriganvilles-robin-hood-lake.html

Corriganville's Chase Roads

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/corriganvilles-chase-roads.html

Double R Bar Ranch -- Roy Rogers’ Chatsworth Home

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

Beyond Boulder Pass -- Bell Location Ranch

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/beyond-boulder-pass-bell-location-ranch.html

GARDEN OF THE GODS PLAQUE:

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Chatsworth Equine Cultural Heritage Organization's Parting Gift — GOTG Plaque

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2017/04/chatsworth-equine-cultural-heritage.html

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Big News on the Iverson Movie Ranch

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/03/big-news-on-iverson-movie-ranch.html

Monday, February 6, 2012

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

VIDEO LINKS:

Iverson Movie Ranch Video Montage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_HBwVKaHjo

9.3K views  11 years ago

Video introduction to the historic Iverson Movie Ranch once located in Chatsworth, CA

Artist, Writer, Cowboy Heritage: The life and times of Jerry England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXnRA0PHZQo&t=17s

2024 Chatsworth Day of the Horse, by By Mark Hovater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ColqYxqglE

 MY OTHER BLOG: LA PRAIRIE VOYAGEUR CANOES… is about French-Canadian Fur Trade History as it relates to my family heritage and legacy.

http://laprairie-voyageur-canoes.blogspot.com/2017/10/ripples-from-la-prairie-voyageur-canoes.html

Also, please checkout my website at http://www.cowboyup.com/

Adios, until we meet again

JOHN BATTERSON STETSON (1830-1906) THE INVENTOR OF THE COWBOY HAT

For me this is a very cool discovery… 

John Batterson Stetson (May 5, 1830 – February 18, 1906) was my 6th cousin 5X removed and, in the 1860s he was the inventor of the cowboy hat.

He founded the John B. Stetson Company as a manufacturer of headwear; the company's hats are now commonly referred to simply as Stetsons.

Stetson was born in New Jersey, the 8th of 12 children. His father, Stephen Stetson, was a hatter. As a youth, John Stetson worked with his father until John was diagnosed with tuberculosis and his doctor predicted he had only a short time to live. 

John B. Stetson

Given this, he left the hat-making business to explore the American West, afraid this would be his only chance to see it. 

There he met drovers, bullwhackers and cowboys. The former hat-maker turned a critical eye to the flea-infested coonskin caps favored by many of the gold seekers, and wondered whether fur-felt would work for a lightweight, all-weather hat suitable for the West.

BOSS OF THE PLAINS

In 1865 — "a time when almost everyone wore hats" — Stetson moved to Philadelphia to enter the hat-making craft he'd learned from his father and began manufacturing hats there suited to the needs of the Westerners. 

Stetson made a western hat for each hat dealer in the Boss of the Plains style he had invented, during the trek to Pike’s Peak. These lightweight hats were natural in color with four inch crowns and brims; a plain strap was used for the band.

Thanks to the time he had spent with cowboys and Western settlers, Stetson knew firsthand that the headwear they wore (such as coonskin caps, sea captain hats, straw hats, and wool derbies) were impractical. He decided to offer people a better hat. Made from waterproof felt, the new hat was durable. The wide brim would protect people from the hot sun.

Noted one observer, "It kept the sun out of your eyes and off your neck. It was like an umbrella. It gave you a bucket (the crown) to water your horse and a cup (the brim) to water yourself. It made a hell of a fan, which you need sometimes for a fire but more often to shunt cows this direction or that." Before the invention of the cowboy hat (which means before John B. Stetson came along), the cowpunchers of the plains wore carryovers of previous lives and vocations.

The hat achieved instant popularity and was named the "Boss of the Plains," the first real cowboy hat. Stetson went on to build the Carlsbad, easily identified by its main crease down the front.

His hat was called a Stetson, because he had his name John B. Stetson Company embossed in gold in every hatband. The Stetson soon became the most well known hat in the West. All the high-crowned, wide-brimmed, soft felt western hats that followed are intimately associated with the cowboy image created by Stetson.

The Stetson Cowboy hat was the symbol of the highest quality. Western icons such as Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Will Rogers, Annie Oakley, Pawnee Bill, Tom Mix, and the Lone Ranger wore Stetsons. The company also made hats for law enforcement departments, such as the Texas Rangers. Stetson's Western-style hats were worn by employees of the National Park Service, U.S. Cavalry soldiers, and many U.S. Presidents.

The cowboy hat is truly an example of form following function. "Invented by John B. Stetson," today’s cowboy hat has remained basically unchanged in construction and design since the first one was created in 1865.

OUR FAMILY LINEAGE:

John Batterson Stetson 1830-1906 — 6th cousin 5x removed

Stephen Stetson 1796-1878 — Father of John Batterson Stetson

Stephen Stetson 1773-1820 — Father of Stephen Stetson

Stephen Stetson 1747-1777 — Father of Stephen Stetson

Thankful Saunders 1712-1782 — Mother of Stephen Stetson

Thankful Crandall 1690-1712 — Mother of Thankful Saunders

Joseph Crandall 1661-1737 — Father of Thankful Crandall

John Crandall 1612-1676 — Father of Joseph Crandall

Jane Crandall 1653-1718 — Daughter of John Crandall

Jane Babcock 1670-1730 — Daughter of Jane Crandall

James Braman 1697-1739 — Son of Jane Babcock

Soloman Braman 1723-1790 — Son of James Braman

William Braman 1753-1804 — Son of Soloman Braman

Waterman F Brayman 1786-1865 — Son of William Braman

Elvira W. Brayman 1822-1909 — Daughter of Waterman F Brayman

Marcus M Pierce 1842-1882 — Son of Elvira W. Brayman

Lillian Amanda Pierce 1867-1957 — Daughter of Marcus M Pierce — great grandmother