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Edgar Buchanan

(Deceased)
Edgar Buchanan, actor, was born on Mar. 21, 1903 in Humansville, MO. He studied medicine at the University of Oregon, graduated from North Pacific Dental College. Buchanan was, in fact, chief of oral surgery in Eugene, Oregon. He then moved his practice to Altadena, Calif., where his interest in acting prompted him to join the Pasadena Community Playhouse.

Then, at the relatively old age of 36, he decided he wanted to work as a full-time actor. And he wound up spending the next 35 years of his life in front of either a movie camera or a TV camera.

Edgar Buchanan's Westerns included "Arizona" (1940), "When the Daltons Rode" (1940), "Texas" (1941), "Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die" (1942), "The Desperados" (1943), "Buffalo Bill" (1944), "Abilene Town" (1946), "The Black Arrow" (1948), "The Untamed Breed" (1948), "The Man from Colorado" (1948), "Adventures in Silverado" (1948), "Red Canyon" (1949), "The Great Missouri Raid" (1951), "Shane" (1953), "Destry" (1954), "Cimarron" 1960), "The Comancheros" (1961), "Ride the High Country" (1962), "McLintock!" (1963) and "The Rounders" (1965).

Buchanan also was the star of the TV series, "Judge Roy Bean." And he was a regular cast member of these series: "Hopalong Cassidy," "Leave It To Beaver," "The Rifleman," "Petticoat Junction," and "Cade's County".

Edgar Buchanan died on April 4, 1979 in Palm Desert, CA. His remains are buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Hollywood Hills, Morning Light Section, Plot #7780) in Los Angeles.

CLICK HERE to see the complete filmography of Edgar Buchanan.

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William G. Buck

William G. "Jerry" Buck was born on June 4, 1931. He attended McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. And he married on March 19, 1953. He and Carol have five children: Nancy, Doug, Susan, Scott and Robin. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Lake Charles, La. until he joined the Associated Press in 1960. From 1960 to 1965, he worked out of the AP office in Richmond, Va. From 1965-72, he was in the New York office. And since 1972 he has been a writer and columnist with AP, working out of the Los Angeles office.

Jerry Buck's magazine articles have appeared in Redbook, McCall's, TV_Guide, Woman's_World, and Emmy. He is the author of one published western novel, Wheeler's Choice (M. Evans, 1989).

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Alice Bullock

(Deceased)
Alice Bullock died in 1986 at the age of 82. She was born in Oklahoma, but spent over half her life in New Mexico. She worked for the state Department of Education, operated a dress shop, and was both a writer and a painter. She was the author of Living Legends (Sunstone Press, 1978), Mountain Villages (Sunstone press, 1981, 2nd ed.), and Monumental Ghosts (Sunstone Press), which was published shortly after her death.

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Rex Bundy

(Deceased)
Rex Bundy was born June 26, 1914 in Towner, N.D. and suffered a number of heart attacks during his lifetime. He died of a heart attack in a Hamilton hospital in Oct., 1983.

He served in the Marines during World War II. Then he worked as a forest ranger, truck driver, rodeo cowboy, lumber jack, back packer, oil field roughneck, and even performed on the radio as a country singer. He married is second wife, Marian Baker, on Aug. 6, 1963. And he began writing for publication in 1969. He started the Western Historical Research Association at Kevin, and was president and editor of the organization's paper. Bundy joined WWA in 1972. And the last four years of his life he served as the secretary-treasurer of WWA. He was survived by his wife, Marian, and by 14 children (9 were Marian's) and 23 grandchildren. His own son died in the Vietnam war.(See the articles about his death by Don Coldsmith and Jean Mead in the Dec., 1983 issue of The Roundup.)

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Lanny Joe Burnett

Lanny Joe Burnett, cowboy poet, was raised on a ranch in Fannin county, Texas. He is the son of fourth generation Texans. Lanny's love for Texas' land and people was developed at a very young age.

His two main goals in life were to play baseball and be a cowboy. Having accomplished the former in Little League, he continues to pursue the latter.

Today, he uses his talents to illustrate the spiritual as well as the sometimes questionable philosophical ideals of the cowboy. He performs his unique brand of cowboy poetry at gatherings of all types including churches and schools and at such faraway places as Central Asia and West Texas.

CLICK HERE to read some of Lanny Joe Burnett's poetry.

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Tibb Burnett

Tibb Burnett hails from Austin, Texas. He has been writing cowboy poetry since about 1960.

He has performed at numberous cowboy poetry gatherings, including several times at the National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas and the Oklahoma Cowboy Poetry Gathering at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

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W.R. Burnett

(Deceased)
See W.R. Burnett's photo and his article in the June, 1959 issue of The Roundup. His books included Adobe Walls (1953).

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Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette--singer, songwriter, musician, comedian and actor--was born as Lester Alvin Burnette at Summum, Illinois (a few miles northeast of Astoria, IL.) to Mr. & Mrs. G.W. Burnette. He graduated from high school at Astoria, Illinois, where he had early cultivated an interest in music.

He worked at a dozen different jobs until he became an announcer on a small radio station in Tuscola, Illinois. Fate soon shined on him. Gene Autry was to appear at Champaign, but needed an accordian player. He took the job and became a personal friend and often comic film sidekick to Autry.

Smiley Burnette played the role of "Frog Millhouse" in Gene's movies, riding "Nellie," his white horse with the (painted) black ring around its eye. He actually in the top ten list of cowboy movie stars from 1940-52.

Smiley wrote more than 400 songs. Gene Autry said, "I never saw him take longer than an hour to compose one." Sometimes it was much shorter, as when he wrote the great cowboy standard, "Ridin' Down the Canyon" in the back seat of Gene's car. He also wrote "It's My Lazy Day," "Song of the Range," "Elmer the Absent Minded Cowboy," In a Cabin on a Cliff in Cleveland," "The Stills in the Hills are Still Tonight," "You can Keep Me in the Saddle (If you Keep Me in Your Heart)", "Minehaha(She Gave Them All the Ha Ha)," and many others." With Oliver Drake, Burnette wrote such songs as "The Defective Detective from Brooklyn" and "Don't Trust a Bicycle Racer."

However, Smiley Burnette sold many of his songs for very little. Autry bought "Ridin' Down the Canyon" for $5.00. Others of his songs wound up with someone else's name on them. And his business manager badly mismanaged his money. So by the early 1950's, with his movie roles drying up, he was very short of money. He was so close to bankruptsy he asked his friend Gene for a share of the royalties from the songs Autry had bought from him. Gene refused, but offered to let him play his sidekick in Autry's last series for Columbia Pictures. His last move was, "Last of the Pony Riders" in 1953. Smiley Burnette played "Charlie Pratt" on the CBS-TV show, "Petticoat Junction," in 1963.

Smiley Burnette died of leukemia on Feb. 16, 1967 in Encino, California. His remains are buried in Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills, Sheltering Hills, #266) in Los Angeles, CA.

CLICK HERE to see the complete filmography of Smiley Burnette.

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Terry Burns

Terry Burns' book, "To Keep a Promise," is out as a trade paperback from The Fiction Works. It was a finalists for the Eppie award, and it has been nominated for the Willa Award.

A second title, "Don't I Know You?" is out now. Both titles are scheduled for audiobooks in the coming months.

Terry Burns has published over 150 articles and short stories. His work is featured in a short story collection published by the Darkstormy writers, in a collection from Coastal Villages Press entitled "Straight from the heart - stories of love and friendship," and also in one entitled "Living by Faith" from Obidiah Press.

Terry Burns has published four nonfiction books, and has a small book of cowboy poetry entitled "Cowboys Don't Read Poetry."

His writings have appeared in such diverse magazines as Writer's Digest, Roswell Literary Review, The Roundup Magazine, Trailer Life, Darkstormy E-zine, Meditation Magazine, Texas Highways, Lovewords E-zene, Association Management Magazine, Writing for Dollars Magazine, Wee Ones E-zine, Fiction Addiction Magazine, Lubbock Lifestyle Magazine, The First Line Magazine, and The Palace of Reason E-zine.

Terry Burns wrote weekly newspaper columns for the Big Spring Herald, the Pecos Enterprise, the Carlsbad Current-Argus and the Brady Herald for a total of seventeen years.

Click here to go to the official Terry Burns web site.

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Olive Wooley Burt

(Deceased)
Daughter of a prominent pioneer Utah family, Olive Wooley Burt taught school for ten years before going into newspaper work. In 1955 (see his photo and bio in the June, 1955 issue of The Roundup) she was the Librarian for the Deseret News, and formerly held the job of magazine editor. She wrote 19 books for juveniles (both fiction and biography), scores of short stories, plays, articles and poems.

Olive Wooley Burt's books included Camel Express, Young Jed Smith, Ouray,and The Arrow. She organized the League of Utah Writers, and she was a past president of the Salt Lake chapter. She was also a book scout for Doubleday.

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Gail T. Burton

Gail T. Burton, cowboy poet, lives in Benton, Arkansas. He grew up in southwestern Oklahoma. He attended Oklahoma State University, then worked for many years in California. He is the author of several books of cowboy poetry and appears at numerous cowboy poetry shows each year. He can be contacted at 14 Azalea Circle, Benton, AR 72015-2250.

Cowboy poets Phil Martin, Stan Paregien, Francine Robison
and Gail T. Burton at the 2000 Oklahoma Cowboy Poetry Gathering
at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
in Oklahoma City.

THE WINDS OF TIME
by Gail T. Burton

The winds of time have turned the page
and the tale is almost told
of snuffy colts and young cowboys
ridin' nights out in the cold.

For sixty years I've rode the range;
I don't envy any man,
I've lived where skies are open wide
on the trails where cattle ran.

Life's sure been good to me and mine,
I ainąt never wore a frown,
but tonight I'm sorta saddened;
Because today we moved to town.

We sowed our oats and took our licks
and we didn't mind the price.
Because days were always filled with joy
where life's fate had cast the dice.
Times were when we'd ride for miles
without crossing road or fence
but now the range is broken up
so the trails just don't make sense.
I miss the green of springtime range,
seems the world has all turned brown,
and I miss the quiet of evening;
because today we moved to town.

But my woman's still beside me,
truest friend I ever had,
tho' problems often came our way,
times with her were never bad.
She's loved me when we've been on top
or when we wuz deep in debt,
and I'm blessed because I have her
because I know she loves me yet.
For fifty years she's rode with me
whether times were up or down,
but we're both a little weary,
and today we moved to town.

The pace of life is faster now
and we're slowing down a mite.
I'm havin' trouble with my eyes,
and her hair is turnin' white.
We sleep a little restless to,
traffic noises bother us,
but it's closer to the church-house,
and that's gotta be a plus.
Heaven's now a little closer,
our next move will being a crown,
so we'll camp here untill He calls us;
because today we moved to town.

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Frank Butler

(Deceased)
Frank Butler was born in 1850. He was a sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and was the husband of Annie Oakley. He died in 1926, and is buried in the Brock Cemetery near Greenville, OH.

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Pat Buttram

(Deceased)
Pat Buttram, actor and comic, was born on June 19, 1915 in Addison, AL. The son of a preacher, Butramm also entered college to study for the ministry.

However, he began acting in local theatrical productions. And on a trip to the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1933, he went downtown to sit in the audience for the evening show of the famed National Barn Dance heard all over the central U.S.A. on WLS Radio. The MC picked him at random for an interview, and his zany replies and twangy voice made him a hit with the producers.And so a star was born.

He spent the next 13 years right there in Chicago, playing a hayseed named "the Winston County Flash". He worked with and became friends of other rising stars such as Gene Autry, Patsy Montana and George Gobel.

Then Hollywood beckoned. The executives talked of teaming him with Roy Rogers, but that idea was finally dropped. So he accepted an offer from a former WLS associate, Gene Autry, to become his film sidekick. He rode the trail with Gene in at least 40 Westerns during this period.

Pat Buttram with Gail Davis & Gene Autry
sometime in the 1950's.