Cowboy & Actor Ben Johnson

He truly knew his horses. Ben Johnson arrived in California in the late 1930s after Howard Hughes bought some horses from an Oklahoma ranch where Johnson worked. Hughes liked the way the cowboy hand-led horses and offered him a job hauling them to northern Arizona, where he was filming The Outlaw starring Jane Russell. When filming was finished, Johnson hauled the horses on to California. In 1939 and during the early 1940s, he wrangled and performed stunt work until he caught the eye of directo