“Hop-along Cassidy” is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by
the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories
and novels based on the character.

In the first film, Hopalong Cassidy (then spelled "Hop-along") got
his name after being shot in the leg. Hopalong’s "drink of choice"
was the nonalcoholic sarsaparilla.

From 1949 to 1953, NBC aired 52 theatrical films of "Hopalong
Cassidy". This series, consisted of 40 new episodes made for
TV, a half-hour in length, plus 12 additional theatrical features
that were edited to fit the 30-minute time slot.

William Lawrence Boyd
(June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972)

Clarence Edward Mulford
(3 February 1883 – 10 May 1956)

Lorenzo “Larry” Caramella
(August 10, 1925 – January 16, 2018)

Larry began his long career in broadcasting as
a DJ, booth announcer, newscaster, talk show
host, and broadcast engineer. He was with KPOJ,
KXL, KGW (below), KPTV, and KATU along with
other stations.

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.

An illustration depicts the famous meeting of Livingston and Stanley at Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika in Africa.  

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his famous search through
Africa for the missing British explorer and Scottish physician, Dr.
David Livingstone (below).

Sir Henry Morton Stanley
(John Rowlands)
(28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904)

David Livingstone
(19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873)

ROSS SIMPSON