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[Hodr]

Okie Dokie;
This is another spin off.  Almost all of the cowboy stars had names for thier horses, Trigger for Roy Rogers, Buttermilk for Dale Evans, etc. What were some of the other horses named in playbills and on screen.  Here is a start, Lash Larue and Black Diamond.  They at one time sent cowboy and horse on promotion tours to movie theaters.  That is how I met Larue and his horse when I was a kid.
 
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Looking it up is cheating for this one.  See what you remember.

[coldmold]

Gene Autry and Champion, Lone Ranger  and Silver, Cisco  Kid and Diablo.

[Foggy]

Dale Evans was Buttercup, Cicso Kid was Daiblo Pancho (cisco's buddy was loco wild bill hickock was buckshot  tonto was scout zorro was diablo

[rockbilly]

Good memories.
 
I really enjoy the old westerns being played on Dish (Channel 342 here).  Many of the old serial types are there, The Virginian, Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, The Rifleman, and of course they play all the old movies too.  They pretty well cover everything from the thirties up to the 70s with a few later movies.  I even have my 13 year old grand son and 21 year old grand daughter hooked on them. 

 

[powderman]

Dale Evans was Buttercup, Cicso Kid was Daiblo Pancho (cisco's buddy was loco wild bill hickock was buckshot  tonto was scout zorro was diablo

 
FOGGY. Believe yer right that butter cup was her horses name and BUTTERMILK was their buddys horse played by Pat Butrum, he also had a jeep??  POWDERMAN. 

[Pot-Bellied Stallion]

Zorro's horse was Toronado, Dale's horse was, indeed, Buttermilk.  Tom Mix's horse was Tony.  Hoppy's horse was Topper.

[powderman]

Buttermilk, I stand corrected. Thank you. POWDERMAN. 

[Hodr]

Pat Buttrams jeep was Nelly Belle
 
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[Sourdough]

Pat Brady was Roy Rogers sidekick.  Brady was deathly afraid of horses, So someone came up with an old WWII surplus jeep for Pat to drive.  Dale Evens horse on the Roy Rogers Show was named Buttermilk.  In earlier movies she rode a horse named Pal.  Frog Milhouse rode Ring Eyed Nellie.  Frog played both with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.

Pat Butrum was another charactor actor that played with several stars, usually as a town mayor or store owner.  He also played in Petty Coat Junction, and a stint on the Beverly Hillbillies.   

Zorro had two horses, Tornado (A Black Horse)  Then when Don Diago De La Vega went to Montaray he had need to become Zorro again, therefore a need for a horse.  He ended up with a white horse named Phantom.   

Was watching TCM Sunday, they were doing a series on singing cowboys.  When WWII broke out the studio was afraid they would lose Gene Auetry and Roy Rogers.  The studio brought in a new guy I believe his name was (Tim) Holt.  Holt had a Horse named Smoke The wonder horse.

Paladen rode Rafter.  Buck (Played by Cameron Mitchel) in High Chapparral rode Reb.  Ben Cartwright rode Buck, as also did Matt Dillion(differant horses same name.).  Little Joe Cartwright rode Cochise.  Sgt Preston of the Yukon rode Rex, and Blackie.  Festus Hagen rode a Mule named Ruth.  Jeff Chandler played Cochise in Broken Arrow and rode Sheik.  Calamity Jane rode Satin.  Josh Randell rode Ringo.  Hoot Gibson rode Silver, and Starlite.  The mule in Ole Yeller was Jumper(Jumper got ate in Savage Sam).  Range Rider (Jock Mahoney) rode Rawhide.  Pony Hoss was the Lone Rangers first horse, before Silver.  Pony Hoss was a gray, not white.  Anne Oakley rode Target.  Tex Ritter rode White Flash.  Dirty Sally (How many remember her) rode a mule named Worthless.  Audy Murphey rode Tumbleweed.  Ken Maynard rode Tarzan.   

My wife has given me all the old cowboy movies she can find.  We are both Horse crazy so we pay attention to the horses. 

Our favorites are from the Disney TV series Zorro.  We loved the horses and mules Don Diago De La Vega had.  Those beautiful sorrel mules he drove to the carriage, and the Andalusions he rode as Don Diago. 

[Hodr]

Absolute error on my part.  Pat Brady not Pat Buttram was on the Roy Rogers TV show.  I think I'm getting to old.
Thanks Sourdough
 
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[LAREDOBOB]

 I thought this was older than dirt names. So far you are a bunch of kids. How about Tom Mix and his horse Tony? I win I'm older. ha ha

[Pot-Bellied Stallion]

Sorry, Laredobob, I already beat you to it.  Does that mean I'm older?

[Sourdough]

You know I was really confused about the Lone Rangers Horse.  For the first eight years he rode a horse who's real name was Pony Hoss,  He was a gray, not white.  Then I realized those shows were in Black and White.  A gray horse would look white.  Then the second horse was named Silver, to play Silver.

OK, the horse Lash LaRue rode was called "Rush".  OK, I admit I did not know this one.  I had to ask my Dad.  He's really Older Than Dirt.  Funny, Dad is in his mid 80s, and has Alzheimers and can not remember who his grandkids are.  But he can remember the name of Lash LaRue's horse.   Once I got him started he would not stop about all the old silent movies, and who starred in them.  Then early movies he would see at the matinee held on the weekends at the school house in the area.   Then he got started on the News Reels during WWII.

[Hodr]

OK Sourdough,  Lash Larue's horse was named I belive Black Diamond, The studo tried to rename him Rush.  At least that's what he told me in El Sobrante, Ca when he was using the parking lot of Mom's restraunt where I grew up.  Mom's place and the movie theater shared a common wall. I might of had to go along with Rush, but i called my older sister and she went through our parents photos and found the print I remember signed Lash Larue  and Black Diamond, signed that day at the restraunt.  About 3 months later Roy Roger stopped in to try the pie La Rue had told him about, my sister has that picture as well.
Theater owner had a tender stomach, his words for an ulcer,  and mom prepared his meals special.  All three of us kids went to the movies Saturday free and got to take along a cheesseburger and fries from the restraunt.  By the time I turned 16 I had a fry cooks card and handeld the flat top on saturdays.  I still like cooking better than eating and that was better than 50 maybe close to 60 years ago
 
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[LAREDOBOB]

O.K. Potbelly I checked back and you are right you were first, therefore you win and are by far the oldest. When I was growing up the neighbor kid was Tom Mix's grandson. We played with his old hats and chaps and stuff. I oughta get some "old Points" for that.

[Hooker]

  Tom Mix's horse was Tony. 

Interesting fact Tony had a stunt double named Buster

Pat

[tobster]

I believe James Stewart rode the same horse in several movies that was named Pie. It often had a small bell attached to it.

[Foggy]

Opps it was buttermilk  But I heard Guy williams call his horse Dailabo on the old disney tv series  but who know  open muth change feet  LOL
Foggy

[Hooker]

Maybe not so much a movie cowboy but real life cowboy and commentator Will Rogers, Oklahoma's favorite son named his horse Soapsuds.
And not a cowboy but very much a star General Lee started with a bay stallion he named Richmond after city that presented him with the horse.
The bay really was not to his liking so he replaced it with chestnut mare named Lucy Long that he called Miss Lucy.
Most of us have seen him mounted on a iron gray he purchased from a Captain Broun in 1864 for the sum of $200.
He named the big gray Traveler.

Pat

[Spirithawk]

 Randolph Scott's horse was named Stardust?
 
My favorite western actor, Kirk Douglas, made one of the best Westerns ever made " Lonely Are The Brave" his horse in the movie was named Whiskey.
 
How about a couple horses that were more famous than their riders? Fury & Flicka.