Cheryl

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Name: Cheryl Barnett
Date registered: February 23, 2017
URL: https://westernstarstheater.com

Latest posts

  1. TRUE WEST Magazine – Aug. 2017 Issue — July 9, 2017
  2. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRIGGER — July 4, 2017
  3. Yakima Canutt — June 13, 2017
  4. Iron Eyes Cody — June 12, 2017
  5. Trisstram (Tris) Coffin — June 11, 2017

Most commented posts

  1. WELCOME TO MY NEW WEBSITE — 11 comments
  2. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRIGGER — 10 comments
  3. What is This Event – Dale, Gene and Roy? — 6 comments
  4. Yakima Canutt — 5 comments
  5. The Sons of the Pioneers — 5 comments

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Jul 09

TRUE WEST Magazine – Aug. 2017 Issue

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Hi Y’all, hope you will all go out and buy the latest issue of True West. They always have great stories about the history of the West.  This issue, under “What History Has Taught Me” (found at the back of the magazine) is an interview with me! Hope you enjoy it. Happy trails, Cheryl

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Jul 04

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRIGGER

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The original Trigger, The Old Man, The Old Horse, would be turning 83 today. He was truly a very special horse. He was all spirit and fire when Dad rode him and the most gentle of giants when I rode him across the Van Nuys Wash (as a nine-year-old) to the Mom and Pop grocery …

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Jun 13

Yakima Canutt

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Yakima Canutt is probably the most famous stuntman in the entertainment industry. He was the inventor of most of the famous stunts that took our breaths away. It was Yak that leapt off the driver’s seat of the stagecoach onto the backs of the backs team of horses, then onto the backs of the team …

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Jun 12

Iron Eyes Cody

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Iron Eyes Cody was known by everybody as a spokesman for conservation and of American Indian traditions. As a young man, he took it upon himself to study and learn what he could of Indian culture. His portrayal of the Indian chief with the tear in his eye for the “Keep America Beautiful” campaign (posters …

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Jun 11

Trisstram (Tris) Coffin

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Trisstram (Tris) Coffin was another of those fine Republic actors who worked all of the time. He appeared in seven of their cliff-hanger series. He also honed his craft while playing good guys and bad guys in numerous films and then television series. He had the lead in his own syndicated series “26 Men” which …

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Jun 10

More about Gabby Hayes

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I absolutely loved Gabby like another grandfather. He was the most handsome man. Always dressed in custom-made English tweed suits and handmade silk shirts from France. He always smelled wonderful and he could tell the most wonderful stories in his beautiful stage voice. I’m glad that I didn’t see him on film as a bad …

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Jun 09

Noah Beery Jr.

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Noah Beery Jr. was another of the “good guys” in this film. He was another kid who was born into Hollywood’s main business — FILMS. He proved to be a wonderful actor, who enjoyed a long career. Probably his best-known role today is as “Rocky,” James Garner’s father in “The Rockford Files.” When Mom (Dale …

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Jun 08

Bob Steele

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You know, I just love seeing Dad in his early, early films, where he is not always being Roy Rogers. In Carson City Kid, he plays an outlaw, who turns out to be a good/bad guy avenging his older brother. Then he’s a robber again who, by the end of the movie, is once again …

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May 03

GENE AUTRY, OKLAHOMA EVENT MAY 5-7

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Hi! All of you who can make it to the Gene Autry Museum in Gene Autry, OK this coming weekend are in for a real treat!!! Lots of music, cowboy poets, celebrities and good food! My incredible, talented, computer expert partner, Bob Terry is going to be the daytime emcee. Bob and his family will …

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Apr 18

THE ROY ROGERS TV SHOW’S WONDERFUL CREW

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One of the main reasons that the production values on the Roy Rogers TV Show were so good was Dad bringing over so many members of his old Republic Studios crew. I wish I could remember more of their names but it has been a few years ago and I was, after all, a teenager. …

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Apr 17

George “Gabby” Hayes

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George “Gabby” Hayes was a true renaissance man. He had played Hamlet on Broadway when he was only 19. He was a superb actor, a minor-league baseball player, he led an all-girl orchestra, he loved opera, he was an omnivorous reader of all types and genre of books. He was suave. He was funny. He …

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Apr 06

Utah and Peggy Stewart

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Typically of Republic Studios, Utah was made in Lone Pine, California! Dad’s (Roy Rogers) films seldom had the budget to travel out of California and Lone Pine is used for everything from itself (“High Sierra”) to the Khyber Pass (“King of the Khyber Rifles”) to India in “Charge of the Light Brigade” to another world …

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