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From the Associated Press Bringing in considerably more than expected, Roy Rogers’ stuffed and mounted horse sold for $266,500 to a Nebraska-based cable TV network. RFD-TV, which says that Rogers is representative of the company’s values, purchased the movie cowboy’s sidekick, Trigger, at a Christie’s auction in New York City on Wednesday. The network hopes [...]

Wyatt Earp along with his brothers and their wives move to Tombstone to start a new life putting his life as a lawman and gunslinger behind him. Also coming to Tombstone is Wyatt’s good friend, Doc Holliday. However, it turns out that “The Cowboys” a group of men, among whose members include The Clantons, pretty [...]

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“The New York Times is reporting that 75 films from a unearthed New Zealand jackpot are being systematically shuttled back to America, where they are being distributed by the Library Of Congress’ National Film Preservation Board amongst the five American nitrate preservation facilities that include themselves, AMPAS, UCLA, the MOMA, and George Eastman House for [...]

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Dirt, mud and dust, Bibles and beer outlaws, barbed wire, saddles and steer it’s a simple life sacred ground hard times, high winds can’t bring us down in cowboy town, yeah, cowboy town that’s where I’m from, cowboy town we wear our boots to dinner drive our trucks to church solid as a rock, salt [...]

Just in case you don’t know about it, there’s a great TV channel called RFD-TV. They describe themselves as a channel aimed at rural America. Production and uplinking occurs at Northstar Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, while the corporate and national sales office is in Omaha, Nebraska. It reaches 40 million viewers. RFD-TV was founded and [...]

Templeton Thompson’s web page can be found HERE. The video features the horses from the Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary in Mena, Arkansas. If you have problems seeing the video below click HERE.

Back in November I wrote that the Roy Rogers Museum was closing. From the High Noon website: The definitive and final sale of the important and iconic property from the museum will be sold this July. This sale will include Edward H Bohlin silver parade saddles, Roy’s autographed sports memorabilia, costuming (Nudie’s and other clothing [...]

Templeton Thompson’s “official” music video. Templeton Thompson’s web page can be found HERE. If you have problems seeing the video below click HERE.

From Wikipedia: “George Frances “Gabby” Hayes was born in 1885, the third of seven children in Wellsville, New York, and did not come from a cowboy background. In fact, he did not know how to ride a horse until he was in his forties and had to learn for movie roles. His father, Clark Hayes, [...]

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May 28-29 there will be a special John Wayne birthday celebration in Winterset, Iowa. There will be town walking tours, pancake breakfast, exhibits of John Wayne memorabilia, dedication of a John Wayne statue, free John Wayne movies, an auction, music, Miss Iowa Teen Rodeo Queen, and a special big screen presentation of the movie The [...]

I’m not a video game enthusiast but this sounds pretty interesting. Available for playstation and xbox. Bringing the wild back to the Wild West by Erik Brudvig From the ign.com website. “The American West has made actors famous and writers rich. It has inspired children on the playground and grizzled country singers alike. Its stories [...]

I watched the movie Tumbling Tumbleweeds with Gene Autry the other night on TV. Great movie. You can hear the title song by clicking HERE. Billed as “a new kind of entertainment with music, thrills and comedy” in 1935, Tumbling Tumbleweeds presented Gene Autry as “radio’s silver voice now heard on the talking screen in [...]

From Wikipedia: “Rex Elvie Allen (December 31, 1920 – December 17, 1999) was an American film actor, singer and songwriter who is particularly known as the narrator in many Disney nature and Western productions. “When singing cowboys such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were very much in vogue in American film, in 1949 Republic [...]

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