It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy quite like John Wayne. Getting his start in B-movies in the 1930s, Wayne ...

Sharing a name with the South Texas town as well as the 1953 John Wayne film, Hondo Hat Company paints a picture of modern rural life in the American Southwest — “early morning trips to the ...

Born Marion Morrison in 1907, Hollywood screen actor John Wayne, who died in 1979, starred in countless westerns and became the very model of a movie cowboy, projecting a rugged, hyper-masculine ...

4. John Wayne was fluent in Spanish. The most popular American cowboy in mid-century Hollywood films was fluent in Spanish, and all three of his wives were of Latin descent. Wayne’s wives were ...