The dogies kept a-rollin’. Eight seasons (1959-1966) of rollin’, actually, from San Antonio, Texas, to Sedalia, Kansas, in rain and wind and weather, and boy were their hooves tired. Eric Fleming starred as the trail boss, Gil Favor; the unknown Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates, the younger ramrod; and Sheb Wooley, as Pete Nolan, stirred the vittles when he wasn’t busy re-cording “The Purple People Eater.” The whole deal was baked by Charles Marquis Warren, who also directed


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