Mariette Hartley portraying Zarabeth in the third season Star Trek
episode “All Our Yesterdays” (Mar. 1969)
Mariiette Hartley began her career in her teens as a stage actress. Her
film career began with the western Ride the High Country (1962),
William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy with his horse Topper
William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972)
In 1950, Hopalong Cassidy was featured on the first lunchbox to bear
an image, causing sales for Aladdin Industries to jump from 50,000 units
to 600,000 units in just one year.
Clint Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the
TV series Rawhide (1959–1965). He rose to fame for playing the Man with
No Name in Sergio Leone‘s Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns during the
late 1960s and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films. Eastwood won
Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture for
the films Unforgiven In 1992 and Million Dollar Baby in 2004. Eastwood
has contributed to over 50 films over his career as actor, director, and
producer.
Clint in Dirty Harry
Eastwood in Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, 2008
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876)
He was known as Wild Bill Hickok, a legend of the American Old
West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation
as a lawman and professional gambler, resulted in his fame, though
some of his exploits are fictionalized.
Hickok came to the West as a stagecoach driver, then became a
lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Hickok
was involved in several notable shootouts. He was shot and killed
while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory,
now South Dakota.
The grave marker of Wild Bill in Deadwood, South Dakota
