Fred Hargrove
Fred Hargrove is a native Kansan. He now lives near Monte Vista,
Colorado.
He has been a Team Roper, managed several Cattle Operations, including his
partnership with Michael Martin Murphey, and the Rocking 3M Cattle Company.
Fred also spent years on his own ranch between Douglass, and Atlanta, Kansas,
riding for his own brand, the Raising H Ranch.
Through countless hours in the saddle, raising cattle and horses,and
managing the land, Fred has gained the knowledge needed to authentically write
and sing his original cowboy songs. He has been performing on stage, since
1992. He has been a member of the Western Music Association, since 1996.
Fred has performed throughout the Western U.S., Canada, and even
Switzerland. Since the summer of 2005, he and Michael Martin Murphey have
performed their "Lone Cowboy Campfire Tour" in many parts of the United
States.
Michael Martin Murphy, an entertainer who started in the folk
and pop music field but who has been instrumental in the revival of cowboy
music, says of Fred:
"Fred Hargrove is the Real Deal. A cowboy
who can "git 'er done" on the Flatlands he comes from or the mountains where
he chooses to live. He can do all things working cowboys are asked to do, with
honor and tenacity. When he sings a cowboy song, he's singing from experience.
But his music is not "insider" stuff - he makes it accessible to the listener
who knows none of the things he knows firsthand. That's the mark of a good
singer/songwriter/balladeer. Fred and I have partnered on horse and cattle
operations in New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas, with Fred providing excellent
management of the livestock, I learned a lot of Cowboy Logic from Fred,
particularly about protecting the cattle from predators, getting a good
calving yield by keeping a watchful eye and how to see a developing
problem.
"Everybody knows I love the cowboy music classics and
I 've done a lot of research on that music and the people who wrote the early
cowboy songs - including listening to some of the first recordings ever mae of
cowboy singers. It strikes me that Fred Hargrove is like the original cowboy
singers who lived in the Trail Drover era. He sings about that he truly knows,
the life he loves, and he does it without the slick commercial approach that
ruins the whole outfit. Out there on the road, in front of audiences who have
access to all kinds of entertainment, Fred Hargrove always has them smiling
and asking for more."
Fred Hargrove has two CD's available: "A Cowboy's Dream" (recorded in 1996;
released in October of 2006) and "Cowpoke Folk". Both albums contain all
original material.
Fred
Hargrove with wife Joleen
and
stepson Preston and a critter.
Fred writes, "I hope to continue singing
about Agriculture, Ranching, and the Western Life that I live as long as the
Good Lord allows!"
Contact Fred Hargove at PO Box 730, Monte Vista, Co
81144.
Fred Harman
Fred Harman was the artist who created the Western
comic book characters, "Red Ryder" and "Little Beaver" and saw them portrayed
on the Silver Screen. The role of "Red Ryder" in Western films was first
played by Don "Red" Berry and then by Wild Bill Elliott.
The Fred Harman Art Museum is the official home of Red
Ryder and Lil Beaver. That is where you'll find comic strips created by
artist/cartoonist Fred Harman. There are three full galleries of displays of
Harman's original paintings, drawings and western memorabilia. The museum is
located two miles west of Pagosa Springs, Colorado at 2560 U.S. Hwy 160.
CLICK HERE to go
to another web site featuring a history of the "Red Ryder" movie series.
Mark Harmon
Thomas Mark Harmon was born on Sept. 2, 1951 in Burbank, CA.His father, the
late Tom Harmon, was a football star through college and in the pros. Then he
became a TV sports broadcaster in the Los Angeles area. Mark's mother, Elsie
Knox, was an actress.
Mark Harmon was the star quarterback on UCLA's football team. Then he
became an actor. In 1986 People Magazine chose him as the "sexiest man alive."
He is married to actress Pam Dawber.
Mark Harmon's sister, Kris Tinker, is a painter and is the ex-wife of the
late singer-actor Rick Nelson. So he is the uncle of musicians Gunnar Nelson
and Matthew Nelson and of their sister, actress Tracy Nelson.
If Mark Harmon had been elsewhere on January 3, 1992, two teenagers might
not have survived a fiery car crash. The car flipped over and burst into
flames after crashing through a fence and into a tree near Harmon's house in
the Brentwood section of Los Angeles.
Mark's wife, Pam, ran out and found the car flipped, its tires ablaze. She
yelled, "Mark, get a sledgehammer! Someone's inside!" A dozen people were at
the scene but did nothing. As the flames grew and the gasoline flowed, the
bloodied teen remained stuck in his seat belt, upside down. Harmon freed the
young man and then used his own body to smother the flames on the boy's
clothes just as the car exploded in a fireball. If Harmon had taken seconds
longer, both he and the boy likely would have died.
Mark Harmon's Western credits include such movies as "Comes A Horseman"
(1978), "Wyatt Earp" (1994), and "Crossfire Trail" (TV, 2001). He also
appeared in the TV mini-series, "Centennial" (1978).
CLICK HERE to see the
complete filmography of Mark Harmon.
Richard Harris
(Deceased)
Richard Harris, actor, was born Richard St. John Harris on Oct. 1, 1930 in
Limerick, Ireland. His family was of the upper crust. Richard excelled at both
literature and rugby, and his main goal as a youth was to play rugby for
Ireland. It never happened.
Instead, young Richard went to work in the family-owned flour mill. He
became interested in acting when he was in a period of recovery from
tuberculosis. He became active in the local productions and in 1955 left
Ireland for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Richard Harris made his London stage debut in 1956 in "The Quare Fellow."
And by 1958 he was getting small parts in movies. By the 1960's he was getting
starring roles in American films.
By the late 1960's, Harris was having his greatest successes in the world
of music. Harris stepped into the lead role of the film version of "Camelot".
He struck up a friendship with pop composer (and Oklahoma native!) Jimmy Webb.
They collaborated on two albums, with Webb both writingand producing them ( "A
Tramp Shining" and "The Yard Went On Forever"). Several singles from the
albums were well-received. So well-received that Harris gave a Rolls Royce to
Jimmy Webb in appreciation.
There was a period in his life when Harris drank to excess and used illegal
drugs. In fact, he nearly died in 1978 when he overdosed with cocaine. But by
1982 he was getting his life and career back together.
The Western films of Richard Harris include "A Man Called Horse" (1970),
"Man in the Wilderness" (1971), "Return of a Man Called Horse" (1976), and
"Unforgiven" (1992) with Clint Eastwood.
Richard Harris's last films included a role as Headmaster Albus Dumbledore
in the monumental "Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone" and "Harry Potter
And The Chamber Of Secrets".
Richard Harris died of Hodgkin's Disease in London, England on Oct. 25,
2002.
CLICK HERE to see the
complete filmography of Richard Harris.
C. William Harrison
Chet Harrison wrote Guns of Fort Petticoat, which he sold as a two-part
serial to Colliers, then sold it to Gold Medal Books, and then sold the movie
rights to Columbia--and they made it into a movie starring Audie Murphy. (See
his photo & bio in the Nov., 1956 issue of The Roundup.)
Dick Hart
Dick Hart of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was appointed "Poet Laureate of Cheyenne"
for his many contributions to poetry, story telling and his unique brand of
cowboy and western humor. Dick has brought history alive with his portrayal of
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rev. Joseph Cook, who built the first Protestant
church in Wyoming Territory in docu-dramas sponsored by the Wyoming State
Museum.
However, Dick Hart still calls himself a cowman."I'm too old to be a
cowboy, but I've been doing research with cattle and rangelands for 40 years."
His message is one of conserving the land and its natural resources. He writes
about "stuff I did on the farm growing up, things that happened to me, the
people I worked with and the peculiarities of the critters I work with
--cattle, horses and wild critters..."
William S. Hart
(Deceased)
William Surrey
Hart, cowboy actor, was born on December 6, 1865 in Newburg, NY.
Hart started his acting career in his twenties. At the age of 49, Hart came
west to Hollywood to start his movie career. During the next 11 years, he made
more than 65 silent films, the last being "Tumbleweeds" in 1925. His career
began to dwindle in the early twenties due to the publicity surrounding a
dismissed paternity suit.
In 1921, Hart purchased a ranch house and surrounding property on the edge
of the little town of Newhall (since incorporated into the town of Santa
Clarita), CA. He built a 22 room mansion which today houses Hart's collection
of western art, Native American artifacts, and early Hollywood memorabilia.
Hart lived at the ranch nearly 20 years until his death in 1946.
It was William S. Hart who donated the money with which to build a movie
theatre in Newhall. One reason he built it was so he and his neighbors
wouldn't have to drive down into Los Angeles to see movies made by him and
others. He was there for opening night. Many years later, my very first "date"
in Junior High was to take a girl to that theatre to see "Duel in the Sun"
with Gregory Peck (actually, since I could not drive, my mother drove us to
and from the movie). The theatre in 2000 was being used as the meeting place
of the Masonic Lodge.
When I was in Junior High, it was on the campus of William S. Hart High
School there in Newhall. Unfortunately, that name meant nothing to me. I did
not know who he was. And I never visited the ranch until the early 1990's.
In his will, William S. Hart gave the Horseshoe Ranch to the County of Los
Angeles. It was to be set aside for the use and enjoyment of the public, at no
charge.
Today, the Horseshoe Ranch consists of 265 acres. Both the ranch house and
the Hart residence are open to the public. An assortment of animals reside at
Hart Park, including a small herd of bison which were a gift from the Walt
Disney Studios in 1962.
William S. Hart died on June 24, 1946, at the age of 82. He is buried in
the Green-Wood Cemetery (Section 191, Plot 29116) in Brooklyn, New York. He
left all of his estate to the County of Los Angeles. Not a dime went to his
son, who sued to break his father's will but lost.
CLICK HERE to go to the official
web site of the William S. Hart Ranch and Museum.
CLICK HERE to see
the complete filmography of William S. Hart.
Also see: Ronald Davis, William S. Hart: Protecting the American
West (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003).
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman holds a B.S. degree in Journalism from the University of
Nebraska at Omaha. She has written articles for Old West and has a nonfiction
book published by Pelican Press, Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks
Frontier (1988).
This listing is far from complete and may contain errors.
Therefore,
all Western entertainers and/or their agents
are requested to submit
recommended changes by
contacting Stan Paregien
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Then you will
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--- Jesus the Christ
(Bible: Gospel of John 8:31-32)
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