Famous horses and their riders...Trivia question

[2LaneCruzer]

ANSWERS:


Roy Rogers------Trigger
Dale Evans-------Buttermilk
Hopalong Cassidy-----Topper
Whip Wilson-------Silver Bullet/Lightening
Durango Kid-------Raider
Lone Ranger-------Silver (Hi-Yo-Silver)
Tonto-------Scout (Gettum Up Scout)
Ronald Reagan-----El Alamein
Matt Dillon-------Old Buck
Gene Autry------Champion
Red Ryder-----Thunder
Little Beaver----Papoose
Smiley Burnett-----Ring Eye
Leo "Pancho" Carillio-----Loco
Duncan "Cisco Kid" Renaldo----Diablo
Buster Crabbe-----Falcon
Buck Jones-----Silver
Andy Devine-----Joker
Lash LaRue-----Black Diamond
Guy "Wild Bill" Madison-----Buckshot
Ken Maynard----Tarzan
Tom Mix-----Tony
Tex Ritter----White Flash
John Wayne-----Duke
J.B. Books (John wayne, in the "Shootist")----Dollar
General Robert E. Lee-----Traveler
U. S. Grant-----Cincinnati
Pat Buttram-----Dandruff
Kirk Douglas (Lonely are the Brave)------Whiskey (****** whiskey, when I say Hup, I mean Hup!)
Eddie Dean-----War Paint
Golden Arrow-----White Wind (Scratch Gravel, White Wind!)
Straight Arrow----Fury

 

[bullbreaker]

Translated from Native American language this great chief rode "Shadow Fear" ? In real life !

Boone

No one yet ?
Give Ya's another one : What was the name of "Festus" horse on "Gunsmoke" ?

Boone

 

[2LaneCruzer]

No one yet ?
Give Ya's another one : What was the name of "Festus" horse on "Gunsmoke" ?

Boone

I admittedly had to google it, but Shadow Fear was reputedly the name of Sitting Bull's horse, which was incidentally was a gift from Buffalo bill. As for Festus, is that a trick question? As I recall, he rode a mule; as did Sancho Panza (correction...Sancho Panza rode a donkey named "Dapple").

Anyone remember who, from high school literature fame, rode a horse named "Gunpowder"?

 

[bullbreaker]

I admittedly had to google it, but Shadow Fear was reputedly the name of Sitting Bull's horse, which was incidentally was a gift from Buffalo bill. As for Festus, is that a trick question? As I recall, he rode a mule.

Yes Sir that's it ! Ya got em both correct !

Boone

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Yes Sir that's it ! Ya got em both correct !

Boone

Judging by your handle "bullbreaker", you probably have a tolerable knowledge about horses, and probably mules too. FWIW, my Dad was born in 1910, and he rode and worked horses when he was on the farm. He sorta had a love/hate realtionship with them; he spoke fondly of his riding horses, but hated working with them. I once made the remark, after listening to some of his stories, that it must have been lots of fun working with horses. He said "He77, no. Horses are stupid, and if you don't keep your wits about you, they will kill you.".

He told the story about his Dad, who had a matched pair of either Percheron or Clydesdale mules that he used on the farm. When WWI started, the Army came out and took them, but they wrote him a check for $800. Sounds like a lot of money in 1917! He also indicated that like Festus, a lot more folks rode mules than what we would like to think.

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Ok, I got one. This just involves the horse though!

The New Zealand bred racehorse "Phar Lap" burned up the racetracks in Australia in the early 30's but died suddenly at age 5 after getting shipped to Menlo Park after winning a race at Agua Caliente.
The movie made about him in 1983 (my favorite horse movie btw) featured a big chestnut gelding named "Towering Inferno".

What is the bizarre and rather tragic irony that Phar Lap and the horse that portrayed him share?

 

[tallyho8]

Another horse trivia question: What did Matt Dillon and Ben Cartwright have in common?

 

[bullbreaker]

Another horse trivia question: What did Matt Dillon and Ben Cartwright have in common?

Rode at different times the same " buckskin horse".

Boone

 

[bullbreaker]

Easy one : What was the horse's name Custer used at Little Big Horn ?
Did he survive (HORSE of course) ? If so where are his remains today ?

Boone

 

[2LaneCruzer]

The name of Festus' mule? His name was RUTH!