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What noble steed bears Xena (warrior princess) on her many travels?

Argo. I am told that Argo started as a stallion, later was referred to as a mare, and still later, after all the main human characters existed in a state of suspended animation for twenty-odd years, dropped a filly which grew up identical to her mother and also went by the name Argo (so as, one assumes, to preserve the illusion of continuity for the television audience).

Which of the following was Zorro's black horse?

Tornado. Phantom was Guy Williams' Zorro's white horse.

What trusty steed bore the Lone Ranger?

Silver. Hi-yo Magnesium!

Which of the following was NOT a horse ridden by Tonto?

Silverheels. In the old 'Lone Ranger' radio show, Tonto's horse was called White Feller. At one point White Feller is injured, and an Indian chief lends Tonto a 'paint' horse referred to as Paint. Later, someone refers to Paint as a good scout, and the name Scout attached to him. Still later, the chief told Tonto the horse was his. Apparently the contemporaneous movie serials were made at about this time, and tracked the horses referred to in the radio show. Tonto was played by Jay Silverheels in the TV version and in later film versions.

What horse was famous as being Roy Rogers' favorite mount?

Trigger. The palomino stallion's original name was Golden Cloud, and before he was acquired by Rogers he was a film actor, carrying Marion in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). After playing Trigger in Rogers' Washington Cowboy, Rogers liked him so much he purchased and renamed him. His hide is mounted at the Roy Rogers museum, along with those of Buttermilk and Roy's dog Bullet.

What horse did Dale Evans ride?

Buttermilk. Buttermilk's hide is mounted in the Roy Rogers museum, along with those of Trigger and Bullet.

What was the name of the horse that carried cowboy singer-actor Gene Autry to fame and beyond?

Champion. There were actually three horses belonging to Autry by the name of {Champion;} when one died he would get another with a similar appearance and keep up the illusion of continuity. The first Champion died in {1947;} Champion III died in 1991 at the ripe old age of 42.

Tom Mix's first and well-beloved horse was called Blue. When Blue died, with what ultimately much more famous and even better-beloved horse did the cowboy actor replace him?

Tony. When Mix first acquired Tony the Wonder Horse, he was apparently considered untrainable. This did not stop the cowboy actor from teaching him quite complicated tricks -- although Mix claimed he never taught Tony anything, but rather explained in plain language what he wanted the horse to do, and he would do it.

In 66 'Hopalong Cassidy' films and 52 TV episodes, what horse bore William 'Hoppy' Boyd?

Topper. After acquiring the white stallion, Boyd asked his wife to name it. She was reading the Topper books by Thorne Smith at the time, and the rest is trivia.

What was the main horse used by Lash LaRue, King of the Bullwhip?

Black Diamond. Lash also had a black horse called Rush.

What trusty steed bore the Cisco Kid, the 'Mexican Robin Hood'?

Diablo. Diablo was a black and white 'paint' horse. (Loco was the horse of the Kid's sidekick, Pancho.)

What horse bore the dashing Sergeant Preston of the Yukon on his brave, if ultimately futile quest to rid the Canadian wilderness of evil?

Rex. Poor Rex was consistently upstaged by the real star of the show, Preston's faithful dog Yukon King.

What was the name of the noble steed ridden by Brisco County, Jr.?

Comet. A conceit of the show is that Brisco and Comet can converse together, and that Comet is if anything more intelligent than the show's human hero, for example regularly beating him at chess.

What horse did Rowdy Yates ride in 'Rawhide'?

Midnight. The horse's real name was Harvester.

What horse was ridden by Marshall Matt Dillon?

Buck. The Buck of 'Gunsmoke' was in fact the very same Buck as was ridden by Ben Cartwright in 'Bonanza'. Lorne Greene actually bought Buck (whose real name was Dunny Waggoner) when the 'Gunsmoke' series ended.