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Nov 5th, 2008
Marshall Trimble
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Nov 19th, 2008 Bob
Boze Bell
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Jan 7th, 2009 Wyatt
Earp
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Feb 4th, 2009 Alan
Korwin
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Feb 18th, 2009 Mary
Brown
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Mar 4th, 2009
The
Livesay's
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Mar 18th, 2009 Bill Thompson
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Mar 18th, 2009 Sandy Gibbons
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Mar 18th, 2009 Wyatt McCrea
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Mar 19th, 2009 C. Lee Anderson
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Mar 20th, 2009 John Wayne
Anderson
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Mar 20th, 2009 Hugh O'Brian
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Mar 20th, 2009
Bruce Dern
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Mar 20th, 2009
Buck Taylor
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Spirit of the Old West Alive
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April 25th, 2009
Top Secret Cowboy Singer Songwriter
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April 15th, 2009
Charlie LeSueur
Author and expert on western
celebrities. |
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April 10th, 2009
Michael Dante
Actor |
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April 1, 2009
Gary
Martinson
Bison Homes CEO and host to
the Spirit of the West Awards from November
2008.gary has built an exciting collection
of art and artifacts for the Bison Western
Museum which he will now be moving from
Scottsdale to a new home at the Grand Canyon
where hundreds of thousands of visitors will
enjoy the western art experience. |
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March 20th, 2009 Buck
Taylor
Born the son of a famous Hollywood actor,
Buck grew up on movie sets, watching his
father, celebrated actor Dub Taylor, appear
with such movie greats as John Wayne, Tex
Ritter and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
He initially took a different path, studying
art at the University of Southern
California, and, in 1960, trying out for the
U.S.Olympic Gymnastic Team with the
sponsorship of the cowboy actor Big Boy
Williams.But the
acting profession came calling. It was
deeply rooted in the young man, who, after
all, had actor Shill Wills help him take his
first steps as a baby, Buck begin his acting
career in the fifties working in television.
He appeared in everything from the
Adventures
of Ozzie and Harriet and
My Favorite
Martian to the classic period
westerns, including
Have Gun
Will Travel with Richard Boone,
The Rebel
with Nick Adams and
Bonanza.
He is best remembered for this eight-year
run as Newly on Gunsmoke, which ended in
1975. Buck appeared in other popular shows
including
Wagon Train,
The
Virginian,
Dallas,
and Walker,
Texas Ranger. Since his start Buck
has worked nonstop for more than forty years
with roles in such films as
Tombstone
and in 2004,
The Alamo
and Grand
Champion.
Preserving and celebrating
the heritage of the American West is the
driving force behind Buck’s career as a
watercolor artist. On movie locations he
found himself sketching and painting during
breaks in filming. He started in earnest at
the 1993 National Finals Rodeo selling
paintings and in less than a decade became
internationally famous for his depiction of
western scenes and figures. These paintings
are sold through his website, private art
shows and festivals, and at exclusive
galleries. His private commissions can be
found in the Loomis Fargo headquarters,
DeLucca Liquor headquarters, Franklin Mint,
John Wayne Enterprises, the American Quarter
Horse Museum, the Texas Ranch and Heritage
Museum as well as in the hands of private
collectors, including Sam Elliott, James
Arness, Roy Clark, Val Kilmer, Roger
Staubach, and Powers Boothe. He is also the
official artist for several rodeos and state
fairs.Buck once described his West Texas
ranch as his “church” and his artwork as his
attempt to honor his creator for the
blessing He has bestowed upon his children,
his wife Goldie, and the land.
http://www.bucktaylor.com |
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March 20th, 2009 Bruce
Dern
American television and film
actor who has appeared in over 128
productions including his famous role in The
Cowboy's where he killed John Wayne's
character. Dern
is generally regarded as a character actor.
He has a reputation of playing unstable and
villainous characters, although his
best-known role may be that of Freeman
Lowell, the caretaker of Earth's last
forests in Silent
Running. |
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March 20th, 2009 Hugh
O'Brian
American actor best known for
his starring role as Wyatt Earp in the ABC
television series The Life and Legend of
Wyatt Earp (1955–1961). His
Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY)
non-profit youth leadership development
program empowers 10,000 sophomores annually
through its over 70 leadership programs in
all 50 states and 20 countries. Since its
inception in 1958, over 355,000 young people
have been inspired by HOBY, including Gov.
Mike Huckabee. |
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March 19th, 2009 John
Wayne Anderson
John Wayne Anderson has a
gift for voices and takes his impersonation
of John Wayne his hero to a new level. He
portrays John Wayne in a dignified and
respectful way as the Duke would want it
done. And his frequent appearances and
education of young people not familiar with
the Duke's history keeps the Duke's spirit
alive for another generation to appreciate.
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March 19th, 2009 C. Lee
Anderson
Lee is an
Educational Living History Re-enactor,
located in Central Arizona. He will take you
back to relive Arizona’s Territorial Days.
Watch and learn as this working cowboy and
his horse Dusty perform in Living History.
Lee has
nurtured a lifelong interest in early
southwestern U.S. History, antique firearms,
western clothing and horses and their
training. Additionally, over the years Lee
has developed various skills in metal
fabrication, leatherwork and woodworking,
that lend themselves to making much of his
equipment, clothing. His talent in
horsemanship rose to the national
competition level. Most recently as
Executive Director – Pioneer Living History
Village, he helped establish it as true
living history museum.
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March 19th, 2009 Wyatt
McCrea
Wyatt McCrea helps preserve
the dream of his famous grandparents, actors
Joel McCrea and Frances Dee by preserving
the large ranch they established at the edge
of the Conejo Valley. The McCreas devoted
time and effort to help people in Camarillo,
Moorpark and Thousand Oaks. Dee honored her
late husband’s final wishes and donated the
remaining 280 acres of the ranch property to
the Conejo Parks and Recreation District.
Now McCrea’s descendents and the park
district are planning to use the ranch for
the benefit of school children and preserve
the open space for wildlife. The ranch is
still inhabited by Wyatt McCrea.Wyatt serves
on the community advisory council for the
Boys & Girls Club of Camarillo. He’s also on
the board of directors for Ride On, a group
that helps physically-challenged children
and adults ride horses. Wyatt also is on the
executive committee of the Golden Boot
awards, an organization that honors current
and past actors in western productions. He
serves on the National Cowboy and Western
Heritage Museum board in Oklahoma City.
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March 18th, 2009 Sandy
Gibbons
Sandy has
played a number of roles in movies and
television including the preacher in
Tombstone. He will join a number of
regulars from the Wallace and Ladmo Show to
remember good times from all of those years
and even act out a skit or two. |
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March 18th, 2009 Bill
"Wallace" Thompson
For 35 years
Wallace has entertained Arizona with his wit
and humor making him one of the most loved
people in the state. He will join a number
of regulars from the Wallace and Ladmo Show
to remember good times from all of those
years and even act out a skit or two. Ladmo
bags will be won by a few lucky audience
members!
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March 4th, 2009 Dakota &
Sunny Livesay
Dakota Livesay is the publisher of the
Chronicle
of the Old West the newspaper,
narrator of
Chronicle
of the Old West the daily radio
show, and host of the hour-long weekly show,
Chronicle of the Old West Weekly Edition.
Chronicle of the Old West
contains reprints of 1800's articles and
current articles about Old West events
written as if they just happened. They also
have a section that tells readers about
places to go and activities to attend to
enjoy the Old West today. (www.chronicleoftheoldwest.com
)
Dakota says, “We call
Chronicle
of the Old West "a transporter" in that when
you read it you'll be transported back to
the 1800's. Each month contains articles
about events that took place during that
month.” |
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February 18th, 2009 Mary
Brown
Mary Brown founder of Festival of
the West has certainly contributed to
keeping the spirit of the old west alive!
She will join us as we discuss her life and
the last 19 years running the largest and
highest rated western festival in the
country.
Festival has awarded the coveted Cowboy
Spirit Award to the likes of Roy Rogers &
Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Ben Johnson, Rex
Allen, Jack Palance, Shirley Jones, and John
Wayne. (
www.festivalofthewest.com )
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February 4th, 2009 Alan
Korwin
This promises to be an exciting evening as
the author of so many Gun Law books and an
ardent defender of 2nd Amendment
Rights is honored as
one of the people who keep the “Spirit of
the Old West Alive. With a change of
administration in Washington DC, the need to
stand diligent in guarding our rights has
people engaging in conversation and on
guard. Many groups are attending this event
to show their concern and support. (www.gunlaws.com)
Alan Korwin
wrote his first book,
The Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide, in
1989. It is now in its 23rd edition with
more than 100,000 copies in print. He went
on to write or co-write seven more books on
gun laws, including state guides for
California,
Florida,
Texas and
Virginia, the unabridged federal guide
Gun Laws of America, and his 11th,
which debuted at the 2008 Gun Rights Policy
Conference,
The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed!
With his wife Cheryl he operates Bloomfield
Press, which has grown into the largest
publisher and distributor of gun-law books
in America. His website, gunlaws.com,
features a
National Directory to every gun law in
the country and more than 160
books and DVDs for gun owners and the
freedom movement. Alan’s blog,
PageNine.org, is carried by dozens of
paper and online outlets, and rumors about
his political parody band,
The Cartridge Family, cannot be
confirmed.
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January 7th, 2009 Wyatt
Earp
Wyatt
Earp portrays his ancestor the famous lawman
in his docudrama one man shows written by
his talented wife Terry Earp. The family
resemblance along with a tremendous gift for
projecting the speech and dialect one would
image Earp should have, make his portrayal
especially engaging. |
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November 19th, 2008 Bob
Boze Bell
Bob
Boze Bell is the Executive Editor of True
West Magazine. He's also a talented artist,
cartoonist and humorist. Tie that in
with lifelong historian and you have an
interesting package of talent that fills the
desires of many an arm chair old west buff
every time the True West Magazine hits the
stands. |
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November 5th, 2008
Marshall Trimble
Marshall
Trimble, an
Arizona
native is one of the state's most popular
and colorful personalities.
He’s the
state’s favorite native son and is often
referred to as the ‘Will Rogers of
Arizona.’
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