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Horse & Rider Yearbook 1976-1M
Note: 1. Ben did not graduate from Bartlesville High School. He dropped out of school at age 11 and went to work full-time as a ranch hand at the Chapman-Barnard Ranch. 2. He did not have the money to enter rodeos until he went to Hollywood.
Horse & Rider Yearbook 1976-2M
Note: Ben's father-in-law, Fat Jones, was not the brother of Western star Buck Jones, whose birth name was Charles Francis Gebhart. The "friend" in the Fort Defiance picture is actress Tracey Roberts, who had an important supporting role in the film.
Horse & Rider Yearbook 1976-3M
Note: Ben and Cliff Lyons did not Roman-ride in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; Ben performed the Roman riding sequence with Harry Carey, Jr. in Rio Grande.
Horse & Rider Yearbook 1976-4M
Note: The article gives the impression that Ben worked on Smoky during his years with John Ford. Actually Smoky was released in 1946, two years before Ben came to Ford's attention on location for Fort Apache. 2. Shane is not "highly over-rated." (Admittedly this is a matter of opinion, not fact.) 3. Ben had played a number of villainous characters prior to The Wild Bunch, mostly on TV, but very notably in One-Eyed Jacks.
Horse & Rider Yearbook 1976-5M
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