The Horses

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

Above is a clip from the pressbook for the Three Mesquiteers' LONE STAR RAIDERS (Republic, 1940). Note the mention of Steele's two horses, the primary Boy and the stand-in/double named Sacks.

Above, Bob Steele as a member of the Three Mesquiteers riding Boy or Sacks.

Above, from L-to-R are Steele, Jimmie Dodd (on a rental/studio hoss) and Tom Tyler during their days as Republic's Three Mesquiteers.

Above, the Monogram Trail Blazers, circa 1943-44. From L-to-R are Ken Maynard (now riding the white Tarzan II), Bob Steele, and Hoot Gibson. Gibson is riding 'Rusty, the Wonder Horse' which had earlier been used by Jack Randall and Tom Keene in their series at Monogram. When Maynard exited the Trail Blazers, Chief Thunder Cloud came in as the replacement --- Thunder Cloud rode Rusty and Gibson rode a different mount. The original Tarzan died around 1940.

Above is another of the Monogram Trail Blazer groupings: From L-to-R are Chief Thunder Cloud (Victor Daniels), Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson. Steele is on the same horse that he rode as a member of the Republic's Three Mesquiteers. Thunder Cloud is riding Rusty, the Wonder Horse which had been ridden by Jack Randall and Tom Keene in their series at Monogram.

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

Above, Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson on unidentified horses in a lobby card crop from TRIGGER LAW (Monogram, 1944), one of the trio of films they made together at Monogram after the demise of the Trail Blazers.

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

In Steele's PRC oaters - as well as the earlier NORTHWEST TRAIL mountie film - Bob rode a horse named Coco (recognizable by the blonde mane and tail). The above is a crop from a lobby card from SIX GUN MAN (PRC, 1946) with sidekick Syd Saylor and Steele on Coco. Lynn and Shery Jespersen are horse breeders and fans of the Morgan horse. Shery sent the following tidbit to me: "The stallion Dancing Don (Sireson x Kay Carma), a chestnut with flaxen mane and tail was the mount of Bob Steele in his Western movies." from The Morgan Horse (official Morgan Breed Journal and magazine), July 1961, p 38.