The Western Stars

An old black and white movie took me back to my childhood when cowboys rode the range Major Adams and Flint McCullough leading the Wagon Train, and Hopalong's ten-gallon white hat rode the brim of John Wayne's stagecoach in back; with Roy and Dale saving every day as Tonto and the Lone Ranger hi-ho silvered away; Gil Favor and Rowdy Yates blazed the Rawhide trails as Ben, Adam, Hoss, and Joe laid the Ponderosa tails; The Mavericks never bet against The Rifleman and Gunsmoke truths while Wyatt Earp, Matt Dillon, and Bat Masterson made the law fool-proof, the Rebel and The Restless Gun kept horses ever on the run and Cheyenne, Davy Crocket, and Daniel Boone fought both Indians and Trappers without showdowns at noon those western stars of early radio and television shows after school. These were the stories of so many heroes, villains and more jewels the cowboys and cowgirls, and their horses too revived the west for the fifties youth, a blast from the past of the fading western stars.