Fred Burns — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

Fred Burns and his horse, Ripper, are the admired of all beholders. Perhaps in all the West there is no more striking pair.

Mr. Burns, who won fame at an early age as champion lariat thrower and cowpuncher in Montana now practices his picturesque arts exclusively for the Reliance and Majestic motion pictures, and both on the screen and in real life, he excites all manner of feminine admiration and masculine envy.

He may often be seen tearing across the ranch lands in California, attired in all his cowboy regalia. And suddenly, in the middle of a hundred acre lot, he will swing himself from the saddle to jot down a poem before he forgets it. “Vigorous motion over an inspiring country,” he says, “is enough to jar up all the poetry that’s in you, and send the ideas rolling together in quatrains and stanzas.”

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Fred Burns writing poetry while his horse, Ripper, patiently waits

Collection: Reel Life Magazine, September 1914

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