What I originally thought would be a relatively easy project - a webpage on B western movie horses - was a bit more complicated and brain numbing than I expected. This is a start on identifying those great steeds, and as always, I welcome your corrections. I'll add more pictures and info as time permits.

One bit of caution on B western horses - while some heroes owned their own hoss or horses (like Ken Maynard, Roy and Gene), many simply rode whatever rental or studio mount was provided to them. A good example is John Wayne in his 1930s westerns at Warners, Lone Star/Monogram and Republic. Wayne rode all kinds and colors of horses during those films.

And No! ... I don't have a listing of cowboy heroes and their names of their horses.  There's some weblinks at the bottom of this page which provide that. Trusty Steeds consists of pictures and movie artwork, with tie-ins back to the cowboy heroes and their horses.

Find you favorite cowboy or horse on the list below ... and click on:

• The paint named Dice (Pair O'Dice) ("El Rey" in the serial ZORRO RIDES AGAIN) 
  
• Rex - "King of the Wild Horses"
  
• Bob Steele and his many horses
  
• White Hoss #1 - let's call this one "Sheik" (ridden by John Wayne, Wally Wales, Tim McCoy, Rex Bell, Dave Sharpe, Buster Crabbe, William 'Hoppy' Boyd)
  
• White Hoss #2 - Jack Perrin's "Starlight" (ridden by Perrin, Smith Ballew, John Wayne, Bob Livingston, Tex Ritter, Fred Scott, Jack Randall, Hoot Gibson)
  
• White Hoss #3 - "Silver/Silver Chief" (ridden by Lee Powell, Bob Livingston, Sunset Carson, Tom Tyler, Charles Starrett, Ray Corrigan) 
  
• Sunset Carson and Don Barry
  
• Tom Tyler and his many horses
  
• Chief Thunder Cloud (and his Sunny/Scout and Smoke/Smokey)
  
• Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, the many Triggers, and Buttermilk
  
• Gene Autry and his many Champions
  
• William Boyd / Hopalong Cassidy
  
• Charles 'Durango Kid' Starrett
  
• Johnny Mack Brown and Bob Baker
  
• Tim Holt, George O'Brien and Tom Keene
  
• Rex Allen and Monte Hale
  
• Bill Elliott at Columbia and early Republic films ... and Betty Miles' "Sonny"
  
• Bill Elliott, Allan Lane, Bobby Blake, Gabby Hayes (Elliott and Lane as 'Red Ryder' and Blake as 'Little Beaver')
  
• Buck Jones and Tim McCoy
  
• Eddie Dean and Lash LaRue
  
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto (with Silver, White Feller (White Fellah) and Scout)
  
• Ken Maynard, Betty Miles
  
• Hoot Gibson and his many horses
  
• Tex Ritter, child star Sugar Dawn, and Buster Crabbe
  
• Jimmy Wakely and Whip Wilson
  
• Tom Mix and Tony (Sr.), Tony Jr., Tony II
  
• Jack Perrin, Wally Wales, Bill Cody, Reb Russell, Jay Wilsey/Buffalo Bill Jr.
  
• Ken Curtis, Dick Foran, Fred Scott, Raymond Hatton
  
• Max Terhune, Russ Hayden, Bob Wills, Ray Corrigan, Dennis Moore, John King, Bob Livingston
  
• George Houston, Al 'Fuzzy' St. John, Dave O'Brien, Jim Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Harry Carey, Smiley Burnette, Jim Bannon (as Red Ryder), Arkansas Slim Andrews
  
• Rex Bell, Dave Sharpe, Jack Randall, Bill 'Cowboy Rambler' Boyd, Gail Davis
  
• Kermit Maynard, John Wayne, Bob Allen, Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo

(Courtesy of Minard Coons) One of the legendary heroes of the B oater was Max Terhune's dummy and sidekick Elmer Sneezeweed.  Above, Elmer is ready to gallop down another dusty trail to adventure. Linda Dockery sent me an e-mail regarding Elmer's trusty steed ... and that it was named "Flash".

Salome Milstead is working on a documentary on her great grandfather, famed horse trainer, wrangler and stable owner "Fat" Jones: http://www.missed-a-shot.com/

The article "Memories of Ralph McCutcheon, Champion Movie Horse Trainer" by Ian Whitcomb is at: http://www.picklehead.com/ian/ralph.htm

The TV Acres website has a section on the horses used in various TV shows: http://www.tvacres.com/horses_glance.htm

The International Museum of the Horse and The Kentucky Horse Park website is at: http://www.imh.org/

For those of you (like myself) who are not knowledgeable on horses, they have a great webpage with descriptions and pictures of the various breeds.  Go to their 'Horse Breeds of the World' page at: http://www.imh.org/museum/breeds.php?pageid=8

The famed pinto Dice was trained by Ralph McCutcheon and used by John Carroll in ZORRO RIDES AGAIN, Bill Elliott in THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL HICKOK, Jennifer Jones in DUEL IN THE SUN, and even appeared in TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY: http://members.tripod.com/~horsefame/pinto.htm

How many 'Silvers' were there in the Clayton Moore and John Hart TV series run ... and what about 'Victor', the white steed that belonged to Dan Reid (the Lone Ranger's nephew, played by Chuck Courtney). Bart Kooker has some info and photos at: http://www.ranger.riverviewparkdsm.com/silver.htm

Henry Crowell did an interesting article on his work and association with Gene Autry and Champion: http://scvleon.com/newhall/crowell.htm

Following are some additional links that may be helpful ... or add to the confusion:

http://www.cowboypal.com/hosses.html
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/3539/Horse.html
http://members.tripod.com/~horsefame/index.htm
http://www.wildwestweb.net/horses.html

Information on the Morab horse breed, and mention of Bill Elliott is at: http://www.morab.com/morab_info.htm