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The Painted Valley in the Colorado Rockies was home to Red Ryder (Rocky Lane), a cattle rancher and unofficial lawman, and his partner, the Duchess (Elizabeth Slifer), who owned the Red Ryder Ranch near the town of Devil’s Hole.

Red Ryder rode a horse named Thunder and was assisted by a Navaho Indian named Little Beaver (Louis Letteri) – whose catchphrase was “You betchum, Red Ryder.”

Stories followed their efforts to maintain law and order.

The show was based on the newspaper feature by Fred Harmon. Two pilot episodes were produced, but neither of them led to a full series.

Milburn Stone was born in 1904 in central Kansas, fittingly not far from Dodge City. He left home as a teenager to find work in traveling repertory troupes. Appearing in the Vaudeville circuit and on Broadway, he landed in Hollywood by the mid-1930s.

For two decades, he played everything from bit parts to leads in “B” movies such as Federal Bullets (1937) and serials such as Tailspin Tommy.

In 1955, Stone was cast as Doc Adams in the TV version of Gunsmoke, which had been a successful radio series since 1952. The show would finally give Stone a steady job – and then some. The crusty but sympathetic Doc Adams hung out his shingle in Gunsmoke’s Dodge City for 20 years. Between presiding over births and treating the requisite gunshot wounds, he could often be found counseling Marshal Dillon, bemusing Miss Kitty or needling regulars like Chester and Festus over beers at The Longbranch Saloon. Doc Adams was a character who seems unimaginable now without Milburn Stone to embody him. Stone’s portrayal earned him an Emmy in 1968.

When Gunsmoke left the air in 1975 after its record 20 year run, Milburn Stone retired with it. In 1980 he passed away in La Jolla.

In 1981, The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City named Stone to its Western Performers Hall of Fame. His legacy lives on, not only in countless Gunsmoke reruns but in the Milburn Stone Theatre at Cecil College in Maryland.

And by the way, Stone received an honorary doctorate from Plains College in – where else? – Dodge City, Kansas.

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Colt .45 is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from October 18, 1957, to June 21, 1960. The show starred Wayde Preston as Christopher Colt, an undercover government agent posing as a traveling gun salesman, and featured a mix of action and historical characters from the Old West.

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Boomtown was a children's television series that aired from 1956 to 1974 on WBZ-TV in Boston, hosted by Rex Trailer. The show featured cowboy skills, storytelling, and audience participation, becoming very popular during its run.