Arkansas native Max Aronson was in New Jersey in 1903, trying to angle his way into movie stardom. Director Edwin S. Porter asked the 23 year old if he could ride a horse. “I was born on a horse,” he reportedly answered. Then he tried to mount the animal from the wrong side, and the horse threw him off. Life got better for Aronson, who appeared as three characters in that classic, The Great Train Robbery. Within a few years, he became the first Westerns movie star, often playing his tr
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