Remembering Dobe

"I’m riding Old Paint, I’m Leading Old Dan. I’m going to Montana just to throw the Houlihan. They feed in the coulees, they water in the draw. Their tails are all matted, their backs are all raw.…” In Howard Hawks’s 1948 Western, Red River, Harry “Dobe” Carey Jr. is cast as the nighthawk Dan Latimer, who sings the cowboy lullaby “I’m Riding Old Paint” to a herd of 10,000 cattle just before his cow bosses, played by John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, ride up to check on the