If you go to my Site Below it will show you some of Duke's Horses .
Chilibill
http://www.ranch26bar.com/DUKESHORSES.html
Posts from William T Brooks in thread „Duke's Movie Horses“
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Dollor;
I am not Advertising Anything!
I was not lucky enough to ever see Ol Dollor in the Flesh, But I did get to see and Ride Banner for about Two Minutes in 1947 in "The Angle and The Badman" and again in what was Called The Triogy in the Late 1940s.
You are right about Banner and Ol Dollor. Banner was what we called a Bay Horse and Dollor looked like a Chessnut to me. The Bay Horse was a Dark Brown color, and a Chessnut was a Redish Lighter Color Brown and most of the time did not have the Darker colored Lower Legs.
Good Luck on Trying in Suing over a Dead Horse!!!
You might want to look at the Markings Again?
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Keith;
That looks more like a Half Dallor!!!
:lol:Bill
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Chester;
If Keith's Three Pictures are not enough, here is a post that I put up a while Back, that will show you More of Duke's Horses, Plus a Story.
Bill
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Chester My Friend, good to see you back we need some of your input!
I guess I could go out in the Morning and Shoot one of those Great Big Elk in my front yard every Morning and have him Stuffed and get a Good Make-up Man and make him look like Beau or Dollor.
But who is going to Sit in the Saddle on Him? Not Me !!!
Bill
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Bob, and Any of you other people that into the horses that Duke used in some of His older Films, I have added a few more Pages to the Site Below.
And yes they Can and Did use Make Up on some of the horses. When we were doing the "Gunfighters" series back in the early 1980s for Hearst A.B.C. and needed more Paint Horses for the Yavapai Apache Indians to ride, the Make-Up People that work on animals were brought in from California and they did their thing, and we had plenty of Paint Indian Ponys for the Apaches to ride.
If you want to see more on Duke's Movie Horses you can go to
Chilibill
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Bob;
You did a great job of Nailing down all of Duke's Horses from The Old Days.
Vera I think you are right about Fort Apache and Rio Grande. It is hard to remember after all these years.
It has been over 50 Years ago when Duke made these Films. I put up one more page on Duke's Horses on the Site Below. Let me know if some of them are not right. Chilibill
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I put up a little Picture Site of some of the Duke's Film Horses but not all
. I do not have pictures of all of them yet but I am going to find them. I think I remember some of them from the early days asDUKE the White Horse
STEEL
ALAMO
BANNER
BEAU or BO
DOLLAR or DALLOR or DOLLORYou can go to
Chilibill
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Vera;
Thirty years ago on my ranch in California, I was raising Hereford Cattle and Arab Horses. After a few years it was very clear that it was a very Expensive thing to be in Raising Arab Horses.
We had 27 Horses, Mostly Mares and One Arab Stud to service the Mares. Lightning Hit the Stud Horse and Killed him, and that is when I sold all but one of the Mares for my Wife Martha and One Gilding for me to use on the Ranch. If you want to read a little more on the Ranch you can go to Horse RanchI will talk to you next week, I am leaving for a few more days at Duke's 26 Bar Ranch with my Son.
This time we are going to Ride up to the Line Shack up in the High Country to get some more Video for the Promo that we are doing for the Ranch. Chilibill
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Vera;
Duke was not what we call a Horse Lover, but thought of them as a Tool to be used in His Films. But He did have His Favorite Horses like Old Dollar and Bo.
In the Southwest in the 1800s and then on up into the 1980s when I was raising Horses on my ranch, we would say that a Horse was so many "Hands High!" One hand was about 4 inches or about 10 sm. And that would be to the Whithers or Shoulders of the Horse.
If you would say that the Horse was 14 Hands or smaller that would be a Small Horse, <_< and if you would say the Horse was 16 Hands or more, that was a Tall Horse, and because Duke was a Very Big Man He liked a Tall Horse!!!
Chilibill
