Word: broncho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-improvement. He has been studying the White House works of art. In February he asked White House Curator Clem Conger for historical details about all the objects in the Oval Office, which include an 18th century portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a Frederic Remington bronze, Broncho Buster (circa 1901), and the only known replica of Charles Willson Peale's portrait of George Washington, which is currently valued at $400,-000 to $600,000. Carter recently stunned the curator of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art with his detailed knowledge of American artists. Thanks...
Died. Gilbert ("Broncho Billy") Anderson, 88, father of the movie horse opera; of a heart attack; in South Pasadena, Calif. Anderson did not know how to ride or shoot in 1903 when he appeared in The Great Train Robbery, which ran all of ten minutes and was the most successful and influential of the early story films. In 1907 he moved to California, where he directed, wrote and acted in some 375 westerns as Broncho Billy, a rough but noble Robin HoodrStyle desperado...