Stan Paregien, Editor
Adrian Lopez
Adrian Lopez was born in Alice, Texas in 1951. His family roots can be traced back to the Spanish Land Grant in South Texas.
Lopez describes himself as a "cowboy, hunter, scout trail blazer, bar-b-q'er, beer drinker and good ol' boy. He started cowboying at an early age when he tied his mother to her bed as she slept. He worked in Jim Wells County for six years as a cowboy during the screw worm eradication and the tick fever quarantine.
And it was during those years that he learned the art of storytelling around the campfires. He has since recited his poetry and told his stories at such places as the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Alpine, Texas; the National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas; the Texas Cowboy Poets Gathering at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas; the All American Cowboy Get Together in Bandera, Texas; the South Texas Ranching Heritage Festival in Kingsville, Texas; the George West Story Fest in George West, Texas; The Corpus Christi Folklife Festival in Corpus Christi, Texas; the Texas A&M Conner Museum in Kingsville, Texas; the Red Steagall Cowboy Celebration in Houston, Texas; and the first Hispanic Storytelling Concert in Austin, Texas; and many more.
He now has a 45-acre horse farm where he works and trains horses for ranch use. He is a member of the Working Ranch Cowboy Association; the Texas Cowboy Poet Association; the Cowboy heritage Association; the South Texas Ranching Heritage Association; the Kleberg County Trail Riders Association; and the Jim Wells County Fair Association.
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Jack Lord
(Deceased)
Jack Lord, actor, was born John Joseph Patrick Ryan on December 30, 1920 in New York City. He spent his high school summers working at sea and indulging in his first love, art. Lord went on to major in art at New York University, which he attended on a football scholarship.
Once Lord decided to become an actor, he studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York while working days as a car salesman. He also worked at the Actors Studio, appearing on Broadway before leaving for Hollywood.
Jack Lord portrayed Steve McGarrett, the no-nonsense head of a fictitious Hawaii state police force, for 12 years on the TV show, "Hawaii 5-0". The show ended in 1980. The CBS show Lord produced and sometimes directed was seen in 80 countries with a weekly audience estimated at more than 300 million.
He was also a talented artist whose paintings found their way into a number of permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Jack Lord's parts in Westerns included two movies, "Man of the West" (1958) and "Ride to Hangman's Tree" (1967). He starred in "Stoney Burke," a TV series about a rodeo cowboy, but it only lasted one season (1962).
Jack Lord died of congestive heart failure on Jan. 21, 1998 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His body was cremated.
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Marian F. Love
Marian F. Love and co-editor/publisher Betty Bauer founded the Santa Fean Magazine in 1972, and she continues to write extensively for that magazine.
Myrna Loy
(Deceased)
Myrna Loy was born Myrna Williams on August 2, 1905 in Crow Creek Valley, near Radersburg, Montana. She was the daughter of a cattle baron who died when she was twelve. Her family moved to Los Angeles and she was educated at the Westlake School for Girls.
Myrna Loy had some stage experience performing in shows at Grauman's Theatre. She was discovered by Mrs. Rudolph Valentino and danced in chorus lines before making her screen debut in Pretty Ladies (1925). She was often chosen to play exotic femme fatales early in her career because her auburn hair photographed much darker and her features, especially her eyes, suggested her as Oriental.
She worked steadily in silent films, but her weak, high pitched voice made her transition to talkies difficult. The MGM brass cast her opposite William Powell in the first of the six "Thin Man" features, 1934's The Thin Man in which she portrayed Nora Charles. The film was a huge success and catapaulted her to Hollywood stardom. She became Hollywood's "perfect" wife, bright, witty and humorous.
Loy took a hiatus from filmmaking during World War II to devote herself to Red Cross work and selling war bonds. She returned to the movies in 1946 making such notable films as The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Song of the Thin Man (1947), the last of the series, and The Red Pony (1949).
Myrna Loy and George O'Brien are shown here
in a studio portrait from the movie, "Last of the
Duanes". Myrna Loy later became, by 1936,
the number one female star in Hollywood.
Her Western credits included: Under A Texas Moon (1930), Renegades (1930), Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930), and The Red Pony (1949).
Myrna Loy became more involved with politics and only acted occasionally from the 1950's through the rest of her life. For five years (1949-54) she served as a film advisor for UNESCO and she served as an advisor to the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing. Her autobiography Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming was published in 1987. She received an honorary Academy Award in 1991.
Myrna Loy passed away in New York City during surgery on December 14, 1993.
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Ellis Joel Lucia
Ellis Joel Lucia was born in 1922. He has written articles for such magazines as Life, Parade, New York Times, Argosy, and the Washington Post. His book, Owyhee Trails, won the "Wrangler Award" from the WWA in 1974. His profile and a photo appear in the May, 1985 issue of The Roundup.Ellis Joel Lucia is the author of The Saga of Ben Holladay (1959), Klondike Kate (1962), Tough Men, Tough Country (1963), The Big Blow (1963), Don't Call It Or-E-Gawn (1964), Head Rig (1965), Wild Water (1965), Sea Wall (1966), This Land Around Us (1969), Mr. Football: Amos Alonzo Stag (1970), The Big Woods (1975), Cornerstone (1975), Magic Valley (1976), Seattle's Sisters of providence (1978), Tillamook Burn Country (1978). He is the editor of The Gunfighters (1971) and Oregon's Golden Years (1976).
Jack Luden
(Deceased) Jack Luden, actor, was born as Jacob Benson Luden in 1902.Jack Luden's Western credits included Stagecoach Days (1938), Pioneer Trail (1938), Phanton Gold (1938), and Rolling Caravans (1938).
Jack Luden and Harry Woods in the 1938
Western movie, "Stagecoach Days."
During the 1940's he appeared in small roles in Westerns starring Sunset Carson and Smiley Burnette.
However, Jack Luden got crossways with the law in 1948. And in 1950 he was sentenced to San Quentin Prison for possession of heroin and for writing bad checks.
Jack Luden, former movie actor, died of a heart problem in San Quentin Prison on Feb. 15, 1951.
Giles Lutz
(Deceased)
Giles Lutz was a rancher as a young man and later based his fiction on his own experience with ranch life. His book, The Honyocker, won him a Spur Award as the best Western novel of 1961. His other books included Thieves' Brand, The Feud, Smash the Wild Bunch, and The Great Railroad War.Giles Lutz died on June 14, 1982.
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