BY THE NUMBERS : 10 HOLLYWOOD HORSES
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1--Michael Landon rode Cochise on “Bonanza.”
2--Gene Autry rode Champion.
3--Smiley Burnette (Autry’s sidekick) rode Nellie.
4--Roy Rogers rode “The Smartest Horse in the World,” Trigger, now dead and mounted in Roger’s Victorville museum.
5--Dale Evans rode Buttermilk.
6--Bill “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd rode Topper.
7--Clayton Moore rode Silver; the same horse was Thomas Mitchell’s (Gerald O’Hara) steed in “Gone With the Wind.”
8--Tom Mix rode Tony.
9--Tonto rode White Feller, Paint and then Scout.
10--Marshall Matt Dillon’s horse didn’t have a name on “Gunsmoke” because Westerners rarely were sentimental enough to give their horses names.
Source: L.A. Book of Lists.
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