March 8, 2009

Gilbert Maxwell Aronson, better known as America’s first cowboy movie star “Broncho Billy” Anderson, lived in this Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) residence as a young man in the 1890s. Between 1900 and 1926, Aronson produced, directed, or appeared in more than 600 motion pictures. In 1958, approximately thirteen years before his death, he was awarded a special Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.