Bob Steele (Robert Adrian Bradbury)
(January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988)

Steele was born in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family.

His parents were Robert North Bradbury and the former Nieta
Quinn. He had a twin brother, Bill, also an actor.

After years of touring, the family settled in Hollywood in the
late 1910s, where his father soon found work in the movies,
first as an actor, later as a director.

Steele’s career began to take off in 1927, when he was hired
by production company Film Booking Offices of America to
star in a series of Westerns. Renamed Bob Steele, he soon
made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and
1940s starred in B-Westerns for almost every minor film
studio,

Steele is said to have been the inspiration for the character
"Cowboy Bob" in the Dennis The Menace comic strip.

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(1950-1952) Fawcett comic books.

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is a Western television series
that ran for eight seasons from April 15, 1951, through September
24, 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran
on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC
from 1957 through 1958. The Kellogg’s cereal company was the
show’s national sponsor.

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok starred Guy Madison
(right) as the legendary Old West lawman (in real life,
also a gunfighter) U.S. Marshal James Butler "Wild
Bill" Hickok, and Andy Devine (left) as his comedy
sidekick, Jingles P. Jones. Devine opened each episode
by shouting “Wiiiiiild Biiiiilll Hickok.” He also delivered
the opening commercial for Kellogg’s Sugar Corn Pops.

Guy Madison (Robert Ozell Moseley)
(January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996)

Following his retirement, Madison built a large ranch home
in Morongo Valley, California. He died of emphysema at the
Desert Hospital Hospice in Palm Springs at the age of 74.

On April 7, 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne (above) won his first—and only—acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the
director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit.

                                         (1907–1979)

TV’s "The Gene Autry Show" premiered on CBS July 23, 1950 with
91 episodes aired. 

Pat Buttram (left) as Gene’s side kick "Pat".

Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry

Tom Mix was heard on NBC Radio for the first time. It aired until June
of 1950.

Thomas Edwin Mix (Thomas Hezikiah Mix)
(January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940)

Mix appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were
silent movies. He was Hollywood’s first Western star
and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early
days of the cinema.