Many Hollywood stars have sat tall in the saddle to make the Western movie genre better over the years. While casual fans will know names like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, two titans with very different methods of playing the Western hero archetype, there were other actors who put their unique stamp on one of Hollywood's longest-running movie genres. There were real cowboys who remembered their grandfathers recounting the Civil War who performed as stuntmen in some of Hollywood's earliest silent films, and when the Western genre really took off during its Golden Age, it sought to capture their brave frontier spirit.

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