(Courtesy of Ed Phillips) Above is Jay Wilsey/Buffalo Bill Jr. during his sound era starring roles and wearing his usual range costume which consisted of a dark shirt, chaps, and a single six-gun. Note the two different horses.

(Courtesy of Ed Phillips) Above are Jack Perrin with Starlight, and on the far right is Rex, "King of the Wild Horses", in a scene from GUARDIANS OF THE WILD (1928), one of the Perrin and Rex Universal silents. (From Old Corral image collection) Jack Perrin was a range hero during silents as well as early talkies.  By the mid 1930s, his starring career was over and he drifted into supporting roles and bit parts. Above are Perrin and Starlight with heroine Virginia Brown Faire in a scene from RAINBOW RIDERS (Reliable, 1934), one of the Bud 'n' Ben western shorts featuring Perrin and Benny Corbett. Starlight was used by a variety of western movie heroes - check out the Trusty Steeds page White Hoss #2 - Jack Perrin's "Starlight". (From Old Corral image collection) Above, Reb Russell made a batch of cheap oaters in the mid 1930s for Willis Kent.  Russell gave up on Hollywood and joined the Russell Brothers Circus and Downey Brothers Circus.  His mount during the films and circus days was a white named Rebel.  In the above pic, prolific supporting player Hank Bell has the drop on Reb and Rebel. (From Old Corral image collection) Above is a well worn lobby card from TRAILS OF DANGER (National Players/Big 4, 1930), one of the early talkies starring real life cowpoke Wally Wales.  The gal is Virginia Brown Faire and, based on the facial mottling on this horse, it's probably not Silver King which once had been owned by silent 'big gun' Fred Thomson.  Wales was one of the moderately successful silent heroes who failed to maintain that stardom in talkies.  By the mid 1930s, he changed his name to Hal Taliaferro and became a prolific supporting player at Republic and Columbia.  He also was one of the five Rangers in the THE LONE RANGER (Republic, 1938) serial.  Below, Wales and Silver King publicity shot, probably from their days with Big 4 or Imperial Pictures in the early 1930s along with a lobby card of silent hero Fred Thomson with Silver King. (From Old Corral image collection) (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above is a lobby card of Fred Thomson and Silver King from SILVER COMES THRU (FBO, 1927). (From Old Corral image collection) Bill Cody was another of the lower echelon silent western heroes who wasn't very successful in talkies.  Cody had several western series, including a brief series for Spectrum in the mid 1930s (and his replacement at Spectrum was Fred Scott, the Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo).  Cody rode a nice looking paint named Chico.

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