BS: Favourite TV cowboy

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 09:07 AM

cow boy

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 12:08 AM

The Virginian was a novel first, and Trampas was a bad guy. (More useless information for Dave.)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 11:55 PM

The original trio on The Virginian, working cowboys all: The Virginian (Jamess Drury), Steve (Gary Clarke), and, especially devil-take-hindmost Trampas (Doug McClure). Drury and Clarke are still around in their mid-eighties. McClure, who was also a fine artist of cowboy scenes, died of cancer some years back.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 06:49 PM

Cowboys did not exit until the 1870's. It required the railroad to be built first. They did not drive cattle all the way to Chicago and NY before then.

The blood shed against Natives did not begin in earnest until after the Civil War. Experienced killers were abundant.

The war against the buffalo by shooting them from trains was to take the food source away from Indians. Buffalo skulls were piled over 100 feet high.

Any Cowboy that treated Natives as true human beings were good in my book.

There were few of those on TV

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 05:51 PM

Tex Tucker, Four Feather Falls. Come ON!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 05:49 PM

I met Hopalong once when he did a publicity show up. Very nice man. He chatted with me and was pleased that I was a fan. Not as rich as Autry but definitely had a "good manner."

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 05:35 PM

Pat Brady, Roy Rogers' sidekick. He was funnier than Roy or Dale and he drove a Jeep instead of riding a horse. The Jeep's name was "Nellybelle".

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 01:02 PM

Paladin from 'Have Gun Will Travel'. He was so cool. Not strictly a cowboy of course but I don't think any of the others mentioned were either!

Bit of trivia - Gene Rodenberry of 'Star Trek' fame won an award for writing one of the episodes and DeForest Kelly appeared in one.

I'm full of useless information.

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 11:14 AM

Strictly speaking, you're absolutely correct. So I'll go with Tom Tyler.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 10:03 AM

Bart and Bret Maverick may have ridden horses as the conveyance of the day, but they weren't cowboys. They were gamblers.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: banjoman
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 07:04 AM

Cisco Kid and Pancho. The only man I ever saw who could shoot a gun so well he could cut a mans braces and make his pants fall down

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 06:04 AM

For me it was The Rifleman, played by Chuck Connors. The character was a ranching widower who was bringing up a young son, teaching him tolerance, generosity of spirit and how to be a good citizen as well as a good rancher. The music was great, the writing was generally good and best of all Lucas McCain would often gun down 1-4 deserving villians in the last few frames with his rapid-firing Winchester.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Nov 17 - 04:25 AM

A bit of folklore for you - a phrase that was doing the rounds among UK kids at the time:

Don't be a twerp like Wyatt Erp, be a man like Cheyenne

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 07:28 PM

Rowdy Yates before he went right-wing. Yeah, Gil Favor, a moral man unjustly pock-marked. Hoss, Adam and Little Joe Cartwright. That bloke who was the cook on Wagon Train. I love a man whose cooking can make thirty other men fart like troopers. What a shame thst the phenomenon wasn't made public until Blazing Saddles.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 05:57 PM

The woman next door to us used to go on about Flint McCullough, the scout on Wagon Train being really handsome.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Greg F.
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 05:23 PM

Maverick. Bret, that is.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 05:07 PM

Cheyenne, closely followed by Gil Favor.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 04:48 PM

Roy Rogers was the best but I quite liked the Lone Ranger. I didn't reckon much to Hopalong Cassidy - his hat was too big.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 04:22 PM

How about a cowgirl? Annie Oakley, of course!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 04:09 PM

Most of the cowboys Sam Elliot played. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 03:33 PM

The Lone Ranger. No contest.

Subject: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 12:27 PM

I used to like Hopalong Cassidy played by William Boyd. He gad a white horse called Topper, and he finished every episode with a hearty laugh.