Clarence Fat Jones
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have watched American Westerns and time and again in watching all of the stars from John Wayne, Andy Devine, Roy Rogers, Richard Boone, Ben Johnson to Ken Curtis, my fixation has been on the horses and the Hereford cattle which appeared.
I always thought my dream job would have been a wrangler on a movie set. I could think of nothing more wonderful than riding horses, saddling them, feeding them, rubbing them down and taking them back to the barns. Of course, I would have delighted in sneaking rides on John Wayne's Dollar, Roy Roger's Trigger or Ken Curtis' mule Ruth.
I have read that Jay Silverheels horse, Scout, was faster than Silver at the start. There is so much history in the horses like the big horse Dan Blocker or Hoss rode on Bonanza was named Chub.
There was a brown nosed variant of American horses which were black, which has all but disappeared, but you can see them for 50 years in movies and television. They were all good horses, like the plugs which most stars rode.
The sources of most of the horses as was Clarence Fat Jones, as he rented horses to movies and television for decades. It is all gone now, but when I look at all those horses as backdrops, I dream about the stories about each one, and wonder about their names and which movies they appeared.
Clarence Young "Fat" Jones (1892-1963) - Find A Grave Memorial
Clarence owned the Fat Jones Stables located in the San Fernando Valley in North Hollywood on Sherman Way. The Stables supplied horses and equipment (stagecoaches, etc.) for films and TV productions for over half a century. Clarence and Lorena had two children: Carol Elaine Jones(1920-1994) and John Jay Jones(1925-2010).
Ronald Reagan actually purchased his horse as numbers of stars did. Reagan kept his horse for years as it was such a good animal.
Another stable was Ace Hudkins which was run by him and his brother. They do not look like much, but without all of these horses and stables there would not have been any movies.
This is the Bonanza cast, and I hope the horses are all in Heaven as these are such beautiful animals and I once heard that animals wait for people to come to Heaven.
Buck, Sport, Chub, Cochise
I hope that you look at the horses in movies, because I am always distracted by them. I study the cattle and look with delight in how many Herefords used to be extras in scenes, as there is nothing pretty about Angus.
Am watching Have Gun Will Travel, and some White guy or Jew is playing a Sioux Indian, and he just slapped a horse on the ass and it galloped away. I wonder how many other shows that horse was in and I never knew.
Nuff Said
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