Katy Jurado

The only Mexican actress ever nominated for an Academy® Award, Katy Jurado also appears on Wildest Western’s Top Ten list of celluloid Cowgirls. She starred opposite Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in High Noon, played the wife of Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance (for which she received said nomination), starred with Marlon Brando and Karl Malden in One-Eyed Jacks, was featured with Elvis Presley in Stay Away, Joe and appeared in Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Once married to Ernest Borgnine who called her “beautiful, but a tiger,” Ms. Jurado enjoyed a career that spanned five decades. She died on July 5, 2002.

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Western film and television shows helped shape the moral values of many people in this country. Children grew up watching Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and many other heroes of the silver screen following the "Code of the West." The battle of wrong vs. right was the theme of virtually every Western movie and television show, and the right always prevailed.

Wildest Westerns is a Western magazine that is dedicated to revisiting those "thrilling tales of yesteryear" in the articles, interviews, reviews, and photos on our magazine pages. Some of America's most respected and remembered heroes and villains came from these Western genres. It is our hope that this Western magazine will awaken the memories in your heart, and also help bring to light the values of the Western to those who didn't have the benefit of knowing these wonderful heroes and villains. We will always remember them, and would like to say "Thank You" to all the actors, actresses, directors, producers, studios, and all the unsung heroes behind the scenes that brought us the Western.