L. Q. Jones
L. Q. Jones, actor, was born as Justus E. McQueen on Aug. 19, 1927 in Beaumont, TX.
When I began compiling information on L.Q. Jones, I was amazed at his long list of credits. Frankly, part of that amazement was that I could not have described what "L.Q. Jones" looked like if my life depended on it. But the moment I saw the above photo, the light went on and I said to myself, "Self, oh yeah. Of course. Him." L.Q. Jones is simply one of those faces that most Western affectionados know but can't quite put a face to it. Now you can.
L.Q. Jones appeared in these TV Western series: "Johnny Ringo," "Wichita Town," "Annie Oakley," "The Yellow Rose," "Alias Smith and Jones," "Gunsmoke," "The Big Valley," "The Virginian," and "Cheyenne,".
In addition, he appeared in the following Western movies: "Love Me Tender" (1956), "Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958), "Flaming Star" (1960), "Cimarron" (1960), "Ride the High Country" (1962), "Apache Rifles" (1964), "Nevada Smith" (1966), ""Hang 'Em High" (1967), "The Wild Bunch" (1969), "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" (1970), "The Hunting Party" (1971), "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973), "Mrs Sundance" (1974, TV), "Winterhawk" (1976), "The Sacketts" (1979, TV), "The Legend of Grizzly Adams" (1990) and "The Mark of Zorro" (1998).
CLICK HERE to see the complete filmography of L.Q. Jones.
Monte Jones
Monte Jones first brought "Biscuits O'Bryan" to life on the stage of the Covered Wagon Dinner Theater in Sonora, Texas. Then he developed that character even more on the stage of the first National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration in Lubbock. Biscuits O'Bryan is, you see, the hypothetical cook for the hypothetical I. O. Everbody Ranch (Think "Lake Wobegone" set in the cactus country of Texas). He has been tellin' tales and reciting poetry (his and that of others)since 1987.
See his complete biography listing at "Biscuits O'Bryan".
Suzanne Jones
Suzanne Jones and her husband breed, train and race quarter horses and thoroughbreds. She has served as an approved judge for AHSA, AQHA, Paint, Appaloosa and Palomino breeds. She is a former member of the U.S. Equestrian Team.
Suzanne Jones is the author of The Art of Western Riding, Charlie, and Jumps for Pennies. She was a columnist for the Horsemen magazine for over 10 years, and has written for Quarter Horse Journal and Western Horsemen.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones, actor, screenwriter, director and rancher, was born on Sept. 15, 1946 in San Saba, Texas. He won a football scholarship to St. Mark's, an elite prep school in Dallas. And he excelled as both a student and as a star football offensive lineman.
Significantly, Tommy Lee Jones also found he liked acting and was fairly decent at it. But it was football that won him a scholarship to attend Harvard University. His roommate at Harvard University was a future politician named Al Gore. Jones graduated cum laude with a B.A. in English.
He won recognition on the gridiron as an A.P. All-American. He was even named to the All-Ivy and All-East teams. But he was way too small for the pros, so he was forced to abandon his dreams of returning to his home state to play for the Dallas Cowboys.
So the young Mr. Tommy Lee Jones moved to New York to start his career as an actor. Ten days after his arrival in the Big Apple, he had won his first role in a Broadway production. He went from that to TV work. And in 1975 he moved to Los Angeles.
In 1982, he won an Emmy for his chilling, yet sympathetic, portrayal of convicted killer Gary Gilmore in the made-for-television movie "The Executioner's Song."
Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones are shown here
in the 1989 mega-hit Western TV mini-series
titled, "Lonesome Dove".
In 1993 he won an Oscar as "Best Supporting Actor" for his work in the movie, "The Fugitive."In 1995, he took a book by fellow Texan Elmer Kelton and co-wrote a script based on it, directed the filming of the movie and starred in it, too.
Tommy Lee Jones has a 4,000 acre ranch in his birthplace, San Saba, Texas.
CLICK HERE to go to the TOMMY LEE JONES HOMEPAGE, an official site full of photos.
Teresa Jordan
Teresa Jordan attended Northwestern University and Colorado State University before graduating summa cum laude from Yale University in 1977, with a degree in history and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She did graduate work at the University of Montana. Teresa Jordan wrote Cowgirls: Women of the West (Doubleday, 1982), named as the best non-fiction book of 1982 by the Wyoming State Historical Society. She wrote a chapter on women in rodeo that appears in Rodeo, edited by David Kilvert (Oasis Books). She wrote the introduction to fellow WWA member Joyce Gibson Roach's book, The Cowgirls (Saga Press). She wrote a chapter on women and family for Ranch Traditions, edited by Kathleen Jo Ryan (Abbeville Press). And she wrote the script for a documentary film, "Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women" (produced and directed by Nancy Kelly, Cattle Kate Productions), which received a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for being the best documentary in 1985.
She has also written more than 30 articles for such publications as MS Magazine, Redbook, OREGON Magazine, The Pacific Historian, Washington Post and American West. In 1978 she won a contest for the best still photo, presented by ProRodeo Sports News/Frontier Airlines.
Teresa Jordan has taught writing at the University of Montana (1983-84), the Sunlight Basin High School Writers' Camp (1985), Wyoming Writers' Conference (June, 1986), and the Northwest Writing Institute (summer, 1988). She has been a featured speaker in conferences at the University of Denver, Colorado Women's History Week, Institute of the American West, Pacific Northwest History Conference, and Montana Myths Conference.
An accomplished photographer, Teresa Jordan conducted a one woman show on "Photographs of the West" in Cheyenne, Wyo. in 1981 and at the University of Denver in 1982. She did another one woman show, "Photographs of Ranch Women," at the Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1985.
Fletcher Jowers
Fletcher Jowers is one certified singer and songwriter and lover of pure Cowboy music. His authentic Texas Cowboy approach to music has warmed the hearts of his fans throughout the West.
He has been featured at Cowboy events such as The Western Heritage Classic, The Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering, The Great Pikes Peak Cowboy Poetry Gathering (there awarded the prestigious Dick Spencer Memorial Award), The New Mexico Cowboy Poetry Gathering, The National Cowboy Symposium, The Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, The Cowboy Hall Of Fame, and The Academy Of Western Artists Awards Ceremony.
Fletcher Jowers has been nominated for Entertainer Of The Year, Male Vocalist Of The Year, Song Of The Year as well as Album Of The Year.
He co-authored, along with Red Steagall, the great song "Sleepin' In My Leggin's Tonight" which was on Red's Wrangler Award winning project "Dear Momma, I'm A Cowboy". He also wrote "When The Roses Bloom Next Spring", a cut on Red's project "Love Of The West".
Fletcher Jowers was a principal actor/singer along with Charlie Daniels, Ian Tyson, Becky Hobbs and Will Dudley on the short film/musical video "Ol Cowboys And Dreamers" produced by Peter Lippman.
Fletcher has lived the life of a cowboy, working on several ranches throughout the West
Be sure to visit his own web site, www.fletcherjowers.com , for contact information and to purchase his CD's.
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