Ethel A. Hopkins
(Deceased)
She was born in Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1908. She taught school in Bartlesville and Muskogee, Oklahoma for a few years. And it was at Muskogee that she met and married Joe Ikenberry. "Ma", as she was affectionately known, and Joe moved to Arizona in 1916 and she began teaching at the College of Agriculture at the University of Arizona and also began editing faculty manuscripts destined for publication in various university papers.
In 1930, some years after her first husband's death, she married Joe Hopkins. And in 1933 she became the editor of Hoofs and Horns magazine, the official rodeo cowboy's Bible. Ethel Hopkins' energy and creativity resulted in a ten-fold increase in circulation for the magazine. She retired in 1954. (See her photo and bio in the Oct., 1954 issue of The Roundup.)
Coke Hopping
Hopping is a cowboy poet and storyteller. His background includes rodeoing, breaking and training horses, trapping and work as a high school ag instructor.
He was the youngest Eagle Scout in the nation back in 1971. He was the "Masked Red Raider" mascot for Texas Tech University in 1979-80.
Coke Hopping appeared in the book and movie, "A Day in the Life of America". He also appeared in singer George Strait's video, "Amarillo by Morning"
Lee Horsley
Lee Horsley, actor, was born on May 15, 1955 in Muleshoe, TX. He grew up in Denver. As a kid, Horsley sang in the church choir. He studied drama in high school, then went to the University of Northern Colorado, where he studied studied Vocal Music, Theater, and Communications.
After graduating from college, Lee Horsley toured with theatrical companies before heading east to pursue a theatrical career in New York City.
Horsley is best known for his portrayal of Ethan Allen Cord in the Western television series "Paradise" and also as detective Matt Houston.
Lee Horsley has enjoyed a 20-year career as the star of no less than five TV series: Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston, Paradise, Bodies of Evidence, and Hawkeye.
Lee Horsley enjoys fly fishing and is an accomplished horseman. He rides in a charity rodeo, "Cowboys for Kids," competing in a team-roping event. He even builds his own black powder rifles. He relaxes by playing the guitar and composing country-style music.
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Robert Horton
Robert Horton, actor, was born as Meade Howard Horton, Jr. on July 29, 1924 in Los Angeles, CA.
He played in 19 movies and numerous TV shows, including several episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
He is best known for his role as Flint McCullough on the TV Western series, "Wagon Train," from 1957 to 1962. He also starred as Shenandoah on the 1965 TV series, "A Man Called Shenandoah".
Robert Horton and Ward Bond in the
TV series, "Wagon Train"Horton's Western movies include "Pony Soliders" (1952), "Apache War Smoke" (1952), "Return of the Texan" (1952), and the 1988 TV movie, "Red River".
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CLICK HERE to go to the "Official Robert Horton Page" created by Alicia Williams. Lots of photos.
CLICK HERE to go to The Fifties web site featuring the TV show Wagon Train.
Richard C. House
Dick House was born on Feb. 22, 1927, in Ohio. He graduated from Kent State University, where he was the editor of the "Kent Stater". Was assigned to the U.S. Press Center in Berlin, Germany during his Army days, 1945-47. He was a writer and photographer for the Kent (Ohio) Courier Tribune (and got to interview such people as Soupy Sales, Carl Sandburg and Victor Borge), then worked as a technical editor with Goodyear Aircraft Corp. in Akron.
House worked for Ford Motor Company from 1954-62, managing 32 newspapers which Ford published for their employees in various cities. He was the "Ford Editor of the Year" in 1959. He served as the editor of the Coolidge (Ariz) Examiner and Florence (Ariz.) Blade Tribune" in 1962. And in 1963 he went to work for Occidental Life Insurance in Los Angeles as editor of their company magazine.
In 1969, Richard C. House became an editor of the monthly Lab-Oratory magazine for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. In 1977, he became the editor of the company's bi-weekly tabloid newspaper, JPL Universe. One of the fringe benefits of his job is that he got to sit in on most of NASA's unmanned spacecraft launches. He is now retired from that position.
House spent 10 years writing and trying to sell his first novel, So The Loud Torrent, and saw it published in 1977 (North Star Press). His second western, Vengeance Mountain (Dorchester Publishing), was published by Tower Books in 1981, just a year before that company went bankrupt. And he is the creator and finisher of the Frontier Times-True West Index published in 1962 by Western Publications of Austin, Texas.
Dick's articles have appeared in True West, Far West, Dixie Gun Works, The Trade Blanket, Backwoodsman, Black Powder Times, Chili Magazine, The American Rendezvous Magazine, Treasure, The Gun Digest, National Tombstone Epitaph and other magazines. He also contributed a chapter to The Book of Buckskinning (Muzzleloader Magazine), entitled, "The Philosophy of Buckskinning". (He also writes as Beau Jacques.)
House has been an active member of WWA since 1977, served as vice president in 1983-84, president in 1984-85. He also holds membership in Westerners International, the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, International Chili Society, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, and E Clampus Vitus.
Dick took part in the re-enactment of the Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) in 1961 and enjoys donning his buckskin outfit at chili cookoffs and an occasional rendezvous.House became editor of The Roundup in September of 1985 and served as editor of that monthly journal until it became a quarterly in 1988. In explaining his love of the West, House says, "I cut my teeth on Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson. It was a short hop from there to the frontier of Dan Boone and George Rogers Clark, and the war of Uncle Bob Lee and Unconditional Surrender Grant. I soon graduated to Jim Bridger and Wyatt Earp.In Civil War matters, I am a born Yankee, grandson of a boy-in-blue, but a Rebel sympathizer."
And Dick House is fond of quoting his late friend,noted western writer A.B. Guthrie, Jr., who told him the secret to success in publishing: "You'll never hit unless you swing."
Clark Howard
Clark Howard is the author of the novels Dirt Rich (St. Martin's) and Brothers in Blood (St. Martin's, 1983).
Clint Howard
Clint Howard, actor, was born to actors Rance and Jean (Speegle) Howard on April 20, 1959 in Burbank, CA. He is the brother of actor-director Ron Howard.
Clint Howard in "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas"So far Clint Howard has appeared in over 125 TV shows or movies. His TV Western credits include Bonanza, The Virginian, Laredo, The Monroes. His Western film credits include The Wild Country (1971), The Cowboys (1974, TV series), Far and Away (1992) and Cheyenne Warrior (1994).
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Rance Howard
Rance Howard, actor, was born on Dec. 3, 1928 in Oklahoma. He married actress Jean Speegle in 1949 and remained married until her death on Sept. 2, 2000. They became parents of two other actors, Clint and Ron Howard.He attended the University of Oklahoma, where he majored in drama and was a friend of Dennis Weaver. Rance Howard has appeared in over 50 TV shows, including such Westerns as Little House on the Prairie, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Monroes, The Virginians and Bat Masterson.
He has appeared in some 112 movies, including several directed by his son, Ron Howard. His Western film credits include Frontier Women (1955), The Wild Country (1971), Bloody Trail (1972), The Red Pony (1973, TV), The Legend of Frank Woods (1977), Far and Away (1992, directed by son Ron), and The Cowboy Way (1994).
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Ron Howard
Ron Howard, actor and director, was born Ronald William Howard on March 1, 1954 in Duncan, OK. His parents, each of whom achieved success as actors, were Rance and Jean (Speegle) Howard. His brother is actor Clint Howard.
Ron made his acting debut in the same film that his father counts as his own first movie role: Frontier Woman (1955). The difference was that Ron was just 18 months old.
Five years later, in 1960, young Ronnie Howard won the role of Opie on "The Andy Griffith Show . He grew up on that show as all of America watched. Then in 1974 he went from child star to teenage star as he played Richie Cunningham in "Happy Days" .
Ron Howard cites the wisdom of his parents in making his life as "normal" as it could be, given his great popularity. He and brother Clint attended public schools in Burbank. And, as he told one CBS reporter on "Sunday Morning" (March 3, 2002), his father even paddled him one time on the set of The Andy Griffith Show, with all the cast watching. "That was embarrassing as hell," he said with a smile. "But I knew I deserved it."
Howard, so far, has appeared in some 45 films and over 35 TV shows. His credits for TV Westerns include appearances in Johnny Ringo, Daniel Boone, The Big Valley, The Monroes, Gunsmoke and Bonanza.
His movie credits include The Wild Country (1971) and The Shootist (1976). He received a Golden Globe nomination for his role in The Shootist.
Ron Howard's real passion, since the age of 15, has been working behind the scenes as a director. He attended the University of Southern California film school, but left after a couple of years because he believed he could learn more returning to the acting profession. And he has been at it ever since, often casting one or more of his family members in his films.
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Lonnie Joe Howell
Lonnie Joe Howell is a songwriter and performer. A graduate of Texas Tech, he has produced a video tape titled, "The Songwriter's Video Guide".
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I will extol the Lord at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
My soul will boast in the Lord;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
Glorify the Lord with me;
let us exalt his name together.
--- Bible: Psalm 34:1-3
© 2002 by Stan Paregien, Sr.
