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Wonder Horses
The phrase Wonder Horses refers to the equine companions of cowboy heroes in early Western films. What makes these horses different from others that have appeared on the silver screen is their rise from trusty steed to a genuine screen personality. There have been a number of horses who have enjoyed such fame, often receiving equal or second billing with their human costars.
==Heroic horses of the silver screen==
Though the first heroic horses emerged from the silent film era, they were prominently featured in the B-Westerns of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. During the early decades of sound film, cowboy movies targeted a juvenile demographic. The films’ heroes were generally one-dimensional, stock characters who represented and promoted truth and goodness to their young audience. More popular with adolescent viewers than a human sidekick, the Wonder Horse could not only outrun the mounts of the villains, but could also perform a series of feats and tricks to ensure that the cowboy hero would triumph.〔Roderick McGillis, ''(He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western )'', Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2009), 2-3, 106.〕〔Richard W. Slatta, ''(The Cowboy Encyclopedia )'', New York: W. W. Norton & Company (1996), 188.〕〔Brad Prowse, "(Screen Horses and their Heroes )," ''American Cowboy'' (Jan/Feb 1999), 62.〕
The bond between a cowboy and his horse is an important part of the cowboy mythology created by dime novels, pulp fiction stories, and Western cinema.〔Slatta, 187.〕 Movies featuring Wonder Horses embellish this relationship between man and beast while heightening the exceptional and heroic qualities of the cowboy by his association with a remarkable animal.〔McGillis, 107.〕
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