Biography

October 8, 1946 · Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA

We and the Buckaroos supplied about 40 horses, the head wrangler supplied about 40 and we supplied all the saddles and gear. We chose to use five black, Thoroughbred horses, because Kevin (Jarre) wanted thinner, scrawnier horses that looked more like horses from a Frederick Remington painting than the much larger horses that we have today.

There were also stunt riders who brought in falling horses. Most of the stunts were handled by Terry Leonard who is probably the best in the business for stunt coordinating.

All of the actors had their own horse and many of them came out for riding lessons, like Kurt Russell and Powers Boothe. Frank Trigani who worked on the saddles worked with all of the actors so that an actor could pick out a saddle that was comfortable..We'd also sit with the actors to help, strengthen their riding. If you look at the posse chase scenes, you'll see that Buck Taylor and I were riding on the ends. We both sit a good horse and we called ourselves the "bookends".