Did whip snapper Lash LaRue make movies?
Bill Dunn, High River, Alberta, Canada
Lash LaRue made nearly 30 movies between 1945 and 1952. His comic books, between 1949 and 1961, were among the most popular of the Western genre. They each sold more than one million copies. He also played Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan in episodes of ABC’s popular The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O’Brian.
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True West February 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- Blood on the Earth
- Lewis & Clark-Inspired Whiskey
- What Was the Most Popular Weapon After the Civil War?
- Texas’s Loyal Unionist
- What History Has Taught Me: Max Allan Collins
- Western Events for February 2018
- Who Succeeded “Wild Bill” Hickok as Marshal of Abilene, Kansas?
- The Mysterious Death of John Ringo
- Blessed Booze
- Did Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday’s Fathers Meet While Serving in the Mexican-American War?
- Hot Air & Kind Words
- Did Most Old West Towns Have “No Carry” Gun Laws?
- Wild West Six-gun Goes to War
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2018
- Gunfight in the Galiuros
- Did Whip Snapper Lash LaRue Make Movies?