BOB CUSTER and other Silent Saddle Stars

BOB CUSTER, EDMUND COBB, FRED HUMES, LEO MALONEY, NEAL HART, PETE MORRISON, TED WELLS

BOB CUSTER was a real cowboy who became a rodeo rider,

and then a cowboy silent movie star in movies such as Man Rustlin' (1926).

He was born Raymond Anthony Glenn on October 18, 1898 at Frankfurt, Kentucky

and rode off into the sunset on December 27, 1974 at Torrance, California.

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EDMUND COBB was a cowboy silent movie star in movies

such as Fighting with Buffalo Bill (1926).

He was born Edmund Fessenden Cobb on June 23, 1892 at Albuquerque, New Mexico

and rode off into the sunset on August 15, 1974 at Los Angeles, California.

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FRED HUMES was a cowboy silent movie star in movies such as The Three Buckaroos (1922).

He was born on June 15, 1896 at Dents Run, Pennsylvania

and rode off into the sunset on January 3, 1971 at Pueblo, Colorado.

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LEO MALONEY was a cowboy silent movie star in movies

such as the Range Rider series in the1920's.

He also produced, directed and starred in Overland Bound (1929),

the first all-sound independent western movie.

Leo Maloney was born on January 1, 1888 at San Jose, California

and rode off into the sunset on November 2, 1929 at Manhatten, New York.

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NEAL HART was a cowboy silent movie star in movies such as

Stampede in the Night, The Night Riders and The Passing of Hell's Crown (all 1916).

He was born on April 7, 1870 at Staten Island, New York

and rode off into the sunset on April 2, 1949 at Los Angeles, California.

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PETE MORRISON was a cowboy silent movie star in movies such as

The Outlaw's Trail (as George Morrison) (1911).

He was born on August 8, 1890 at Denver, Colorado

and rode off into the sunset on February 5, 1973 at Los Angeles, California.

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TED WELLS was a cowboy star in the silent movies such as Desert Dust, Ranch Riders

and Shooting Straight (all 1927). He was billed as 'The World's Champion Rider'.

Ted Wells had been a stunt double for Rudolph Valentino prior to starring in his own westerns.

He was born John Oscar Wells on July 11, 1899 at Midland, Texas

and rode off into the sunset on June 7, 1948 at Wickenburg, Arizona.

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