calsfoundation@cals.org
October 24, 2009
Shown here is “Broncho Billy” Anderson, the character developed and played by Max Aronson of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), America’s first cowboy movie star. After reading a Saturday Evening Post story about Broncho Billy, Aronson developed the character into a franchise of Broncho Billy films. From 1908 to 1915, he made 375 westerns.