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By Chris Langley, Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film History

A cowboy and his horse form a partnership celebrated throughout western Americana, nowhere more enthusiastically than in film westerns. Brothers Jack and Al Hoxie made several movies here in Lone Pine during the 1920's. Jack, in fact, found his mount Scout at a ranch outside of Lone Pine.

Jack and his half brother Al may have been born in Oklahoma, They certainly spent early years there. Jack worked as a ranch hand and graduated to the Stanley Wild West Show becoming a featured player. That led to Pathe pictures, which finally led to his first lead in LIGHTNING BRYCE in 1919 along with Scout. His acting career stretched from 1910 to 1930's and at the peak he was famous worldwide. But fame is fleeting.

In an interview in 1963, Jack remembered he was the first man to put an Appaloosa breed in the movies.. His story involved Zeb Hunter who was with Jack in Dick Stanley Wild West Show and started a ranch near Lone Pine to breed horses.) Hoxie remembered, "Hunter said, 'When this colt is born and when he is one year old, we will go up and get him,' and I said all right….Hunter wrote me and told me the mare had a colt and it was a beauty, On Saturday and Sunday we didn't work, so one day Hunter and I saddled up and rode up to where the bunch was and saw him, and he was the prettiest thing I have ever seen….When he was one year old Ben (Corbett) and I roped him off….We brought him into Lone Pine and brought him back to the studio with the rest of the houses."

Hoxie Brothers films made in Lone Pine: THE MAN FROM WYOMING '24; THE BACK TRAIL '24; THE WHITE OUTLAW '25; THE DEMON '26; A SIX SHOOTIN' ROMANCE '26; RIDING ROMANCE '26; ROUGH AND READY '27 and more…..