The film's popularity opened the door for Anderson to become the screen's first cowboy star, making several hundred Western film shorts.

Her husband was a popular cowboy star of the day.

In the late 1930s, Columbia Pictures had been searching for a new face to be a new cowboy western star.

And he's a small guy, not a big, beefy cowboy star.

His horsemanship and rugged good looks made Maynard a cowboy star.

Then, around 8 A.M., he poured the cowboy star into a cab.

On the far southern edge of the city sits an old hacienda where the cowboy star Tom Mix lived at his death in 1940.

Bill Pickett eventually lost his teeth on the job, but went on to make a name as a cowboy star both here and in Canada.

This, apparently, was enough to build him into a cowboy star.

There was nothing novel or original about Wilson to distinguish himself from other cowboy stars.