July 1, 2010

This publicity photo shows “Broncho Billy” Anderson, the character developed and played by Gilbert Maxwell Aronson of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), America’s first cowboy movie star. After reading a Saturday Evening Post story about a character named Broncho Billy, Aronson developed the character into a franchise of Broncho Billy films. From 1908 to 1915, he made 375 westerns.

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