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Persimmon Hill-Summer 1976
An article in the Summer 1976 issue of Persimmon Hill reporting on the Western Heritage Awards at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Ben was in attendance and is featured in one photo.
Persimmon Hill-Winter 1983
An article from the Winter 1983 (vol. 12, no. 1) issue of Persimmon Hill, about the induction of Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers. Both men, as well as Harry Carey, Jr. and Robert Norris also dedicated the opening of a new gallery displaying items from the personal collection of John Wayne, including bronzes, paintings, guns, knives, posters, his saddle, his collection of kachina dolls, and other memorabilia.
Persimmon Hill-Spring 1983
An article in the Spring 1983 (vol. 13, no. 1) issue of Persimmon Hill about the 1983 Western Heritage awards. Ben, who had been inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers the previous year, returned for the unveiling of John Howard Sanden's double portrait of himself and Slim Pickens.
Persimmon Hill-Winter 1989
An article about Ben's charitable activities in the Winter 1989 issue of Persimmon Hill. The author of the article, Susan Embry, sent me the following comments.
How could I forget this article? I had to follow him to an Oklahoma roping to finish it. Terrific man and caring human being.
I was involved with Ben and other celebrities in Houston with the Sunshine Kids cuttings and ropings (kids with cancer). Being from an Oklahoma family and a horsewoman myself, Ben and I could talk history together, as well as quarter horses. He once offered to teach me to rope and I wish I had taken him up on it. His mother was an Indian and outlived both he and his wife Carol. Though they never had children themselves, Ben loved to have the neighborhood kids over to the house. He flew all over the U.S. to participate in these events just for the kids, which I understand are still going on.
Ben started as a horse wrangler and always considered himself that. He idolized John Ford, and for Ford did The Last Picture Show. When I asked him to what he owed his acting success, he said simply, "I can do Ben Johnson better than anyone else." Don't you just love it! A genuine guy through and through.
How could I forget this article? I had to follow him to an Oklahoma roping to finish it. Terrific man and caring human being.
I was involved with Ben and other celebrities in Houston with the Sunshine Kids cuttings and ropings (kids with cancer). Being from an Oklahoma family and a horsewoman myself, Ben and I could talk history together, as well as quarter horses. He once offered to teach me to rope and I wish I had taken him up on it. His mother was an Indian and outlived both he and his wife Carol. Though they never had children themselves, Ben loved to have the neighborhood kids over to the house. He flew all over the U.S. to participate in these events just for the kids, which I understand are still going on.
Ben started as a horse wrangler and always considered himself that. He idolized John Ford, and for Ford did The Last Picture Show. When I asked him to what he owed his acting success, he said simply, "I can do Ben Johnson better than anyone else." Don't you just love it! A genuine guy through and through.
Persimmon Hill-Spring 1993
Article about the Chapman-Barnard Ranch, with sidebars on both Ben Sr. and Ben Jr.
Persimmon Hill-Spring 1996
A profile of Ben by Alan Hall in the Spring 1996 issue of Persimmon Hill. This issue was dedicated to the theme of "Hollywood and the West."
An article about Pawhuska in Persimmon Hill magazine, Autumn 1997, vol. 25, no. 3.
An article about Pawhuska in Persimmon Hill magazine, Autumn 1997, vol. 25, no. 3.
Persimmon Hill-Autumn 1997
An article about Pawhuska in Persimmon Hill magazine, Autumn 1997, vol. 25, no. 3.
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