Lyle Bettger

Rugged-looking, raspy-sounding Lyle Bettger could ironically play suave, debonair characters rather well, but he was perhaps best suited for depicting menacing villains. Fine examples of Bettger’s prowess as a heavy include his ringleader of cattle thieves anxious to frame and string up Jay Silverheels’ Tonto in the color feature film The Lone Ranger, his Ike Clanton, head honcho of hired assassins, in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and his “filthy murderer” of John Wayne’s crew in the non-Western The Sea Chase.

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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.