Poetry in Motion

Ben Johnson knew how to set a horse. In our universe there are numerous classic cowboy stars, and then there is one true cowboy who also became a classic Western movie star and that would be Ben Johnson. According to our editor Stuart Rosebrook, his father Jeb Rosebrook, who penned the screenplay, Junior Bonner, became good friends with Ben Johnson and Casey Tibbs during production in Prescott, Arizona, in 1971. They had a reunion at a rodeo in Tehachapi, California, in the late 1970s. Stuart