Three Hundred TwentySixth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Hoot Gibson
In 1910, film director Francis Boggs was looking for experienced cowboys to appear in his silent film short, Pride of the Range. Gibson and another future star of Western films, Tom Mix, were hired. Gibson made a second film for Boggs in 1911. After the director was killed by a deranged employee, Gibson was hired by director Jack Conway to appear in his 1912 Western, His Only Son.
Acting for Gibson was then a minor sideline and he continued competing in rodeos to make a living. In 1912 he won the all-around championship at the famous Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon and the steer roping World Championship at the Calgary Stampede.
A Gamblin' Fool is a 1920 short Western film directed by Leo D. Maloney and featuring Hoot Gibson. So it's only appropriate that we name this cache, placed in the Gamblin Cemetery, after old Hoot. Don't blinky or you'll miss it. The cache and the cemetery are both nanos.
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