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an A farz-lnatinn trtnrtr a( IDltlfC ODikiTt World's Rarest Stamp. Other I valuable offers included for nam. your free inspection. This rare offer may be withdrawn 'ddreM soon so I I Zone State HOLLYWOOD producers of Western movies in Arizona would be lost without a 59-year-old Flagstaff rancher and horse raiser named Lee Doyle. For 41 years Doyle has been supplying horses for mob scenes in pictures filmed on location in this state.

He was a personal friend as well as horse supplier for the late, famous Western stars, Bill Farnum and Tom Mix. His own horse, Rex, "King of Wild Horses," was a movie personality for 20 of his 24 years. Doyle bought Rex from the old Fox Film Company and trained him for possibly his greatest role, "Smoky." The Western horse picture was filmed on Doyle's ranch south of Flagstaff, where Rex and two other Doyle-owned stars, Lady and Marquee, spent their time when they weren't in the movies. Producers of such pictures as "Fort Apache," "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon," "Stormy," and the most recent, "The Searchers," used Doyle's string of 30 horses. He once had as many as 115 head roaming the forests and pastures of his sprawling ranch.

Rex, a brown stallion and a registered Morgan, has been dead 10 years, but his son sired a half dozen mares and stallions which are all potential movie stars. Doyle was born at Wood's Ranch southeast of Sedona. When he was five his family moved to Flagstaff. His father, Allen Doyle, was a stock raiser, and Doyle says, "It was almost natural that I follow in his footsteps. I had lived among horses all of my life." In 1914 he began concentrating on stock that could be trained for movie work a job that required not only his services but a fulltime trainer.

The two men in those days drove a string of horses to various movie locations throughout the state. The veteran stock man remembers with considerable nostalgia his 12 years as a guide for Zane Grey, one of America's most popular Western novelists. "Grey was a lover not only of fine horse flesh but of almost everything in Arizona," says Doyle. "His descriptions of the scenery were masterpieces drawn from his own experience among the wonders of the state." Short, slightly-built Doyle never gets far from Flagstaff and his ranch unless he's working a string of horses in a movie. "I never know when a film company is going to call me for horses," he says.

"Even though my work is behind the scenes, I'm proud to know that my horses are selected for Western movies. It's kind of like the Old West coming alive again." so if you want to get around even to esser extremes dress SB! for the occasion. The holiday season is upon us and we have the most glamorous selection of fabrics for your partying T-O-D-A-Y at AAA4AAAi Ill i 1 Al; V.A(., I i ll N. 7th Av. AM 4-2276 jJMiiiir Si tfmm mi- J.

I ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS MAGAZINE. NOVEMIER 27, 1955.