Just saw a little more info on the buckskin the 2 stars rode. He ended up being used at a therapeutic riding center and lived to 45!
https://x.com/lindackbl/status/1759323239128445196?s=46&t=eegdnadSv-I7CrvIMmjZ3Q
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This story brings me joy in so many ways! Thank you for sharing.
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I remember that horse well— and little Joe’s pinto and Hoss’s bay. So glad the buckskin had such a nice life.
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Little Joe apparently had several paints… and I think Marshall Dillon/Gunsmoke buckskin was a couple different horses - it was on TV long before Bonanza. But so nice Lorne Green bought him.
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whenever there is atopic on actors and horses I am reminded of Jimmy Stewart’s respect for his acting buddy Pie
“I rode Pie for 22 years,” Stewart said. “ I never was able to buy him because he was owned by a little girl by the name of Stevie Myers, who is the daughter of an old wrangler who worked for Tom Mix and W.S. Hart.” “When Hart retired, he gave this horse to Stevie.
Steward respected Pie as an actor
the horse needed to walk from one end of a street to another with no ropes on him or anything, and Stewart just went up to him, he said he whispered in his ear and told him what he needed him to do . And the horse did it. And everyone on the set was absolutely amazed, and Stewart just said, that was Pie.
one take is all that was needed as Pie knew what to do after being told
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