Ronald Reagan (left) with John McIntire in Wagon Train (1963)
“The Fort Pierce Story”.

Ann Blyth plays the wife of Capt. Winters 
(Ronald Reagan), whose name was Nancy.

Reagan’s wife at the time was also named
Nancy- Nancy Reagan, whom he had
married in 1952.

The Western series aired 8 seasons: first on NBC-TV (1957 –
1962), and then on ABC-TV (1962–1965).

Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882)

Seen by some as a vicious murderer and by others as a gallant
Robin Hood, the famous outlaw Jesse Woodson James was
born on September 5, 1847, in Clay County, Missouri.

Chuck Connors (1921-1992) and Johnny Crawford (1946-2021)

The Rifleman aired on ABC from September 30, 1958, to
April 8, 1963, as a production of Four Star Television. It
was one of the first primetime series on US television to
show a single parent raising a child.

The series starred Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas
McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain.

Chuck Connors with his Winchester Model 44-40 1892 rifle.

When Connors auditioned for the show, the director suddenly
threw a rifle at him; the former Major League Baseball player
caught it and got the job. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Clu Gulager (William Martin Gulager)
(November 16, 1928 – August 5, 2022) 

Gulager first became known for his work in television, appearing
in the co-starring role of William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) in the
1960–1962 NBC television series The Tall Man and as Emmett
Ryker in another NBC Western series, The Virginian.

His first major film role was in Don Siegel‘s The Killers (1964)
with Lee Marvin and Ronald Reagan in his only movie role as
a villain.

Gulager died Friday of natural causes at the Los Angeles home
of his son John and daughter-in-law Diane.

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.