BOOT HILL
"... the potter's field, to bury strangers in."
Matthew 27:7
What happened to John Wayne
and the production crew of The Conqueror
during that 1955 Utah shoot?
Were they Donner-partied by desert particulates
from Nevada nuclear tests,
or dry-gulched by flying saucers and weather balloons
floating from Roswell, NM?
Widen the shot to include all the cowboys who rode in movie & tv westerns,
and contemplate the numbers.
What accounts for the inordinate cases of cancer, emphysema, lung cancer,
throat cancer, and various complications?
Could it be because they boozed through bottles & barrels,
and smoked and L&M'ed like locomotives?
Whatever the cause, they went thataway.
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CANCER
Rodolfo Acosta
Charles Aidman
Claude Akins
Chris Alcaide
Luana Anders
Keith Andes
E.J. André
Evelyn Ankers
Pedro Armendáriz
Robert Armstrong
Roy Barcroft
Tony Barrett
Anne Barton
Sidney Blackmer
Amanda Blake
Richard Boone
X Brands
Barbara Britton
Steve Brodie
Charles Bronson
William Bryant
Rod Cameron
Harry Carey
Paul Carr
Woodrow Chambliss
George Chandler
Jeff Chandler
Tristram Coffin
Gary Cooper
Merian C. Cooper
Cyril Delevanti
Faith Domergue
Brian Donlevy
King Donovan
John Doucette
Cathy Downs
Constance Ford
Val Dufour
Andrew Duggan
Dan Duryea
Richard Egan
Wild Bill Elliott
Leif Erickson
Richard Farnsworth
Frank Ferguson
John Ford
Clem Fuller
Frank Gerstle
Hoot Gibson
Gary Gray
James Griffith
Kevin Hagen
Alan Hale, Jr.
Sterling Hayden
Arthur Hunnicutt
Richard Jaeckel
Arch Johnson
Howard Keel
Brian Keith
DeForest Kelley
Arthur Kennedy
Burt Kennedy
Lou Krugman
Michael Landon
Bethel Leslie
Ida Lupino
Barton MacLane
Victor Mature
John McIntire
Don Megowan
Fintan Meyler
John Milford
Sheree North
Cathy O'Donnell
Simon Oakland
Susan Oliver
Nestor Paiva
Eugene Pallette
Dick Powell
Robert Preston
Wayde Preston
Ainslie Pryor
Anthony Quinn
Ella Raines
Vera Ralston
Donna Reed
Paul Richards
Carlos Rivas
Chuck Roberson
Robert Rockwell
Gilbert Roland
Bing Russell
Joe Sawyer
Richard Shannon
Luke Short
Ron Soble
Arthur Space
Fay Spain
Kelly Thordsen
Tom Tully
Lurene Tuttle
Herb Vigran
Charles Watts
John Wayne
Dennis Weaver
Helen Westcott
Robert J. Wilke
Guy Wilkerson
Jean Willes
Chill Wills
Will Wright
Keenan Wynn
THROAT CANCER
Richard Boone
Bruce Cabot
Brian Donlevy
Andrew Duggan
Don Megowan
Anthony Quinn
Ella Raines
Kasey Rogers
Jeremy Slate
LUNG CANCER
John Archer
Roscoe Ates
Tristram Coffin
Chuck Connors
Victor French
Virginia Gregg
Louis L'Amour
Doug McClure
Steve McQueen
Cameron Mitchell
Robert Mitchum
Joanna Moore
George Peppard
Denver Pyle
Jason Robards, Jr.
Robert Ryan
Olan Soule
Glenn Strange
Woody Strode
Wm Talman
Robert Taylor
Forrest Tucker
John Wayne
James Whitmore
Tony Young
EMPHYSEMA
John Agar
Richard Arlen
Scott Brady
Neville Brand
Walter Brennan
Paul Brinegar
Walter Burke
Rory Calhoun
Harry Carey
Henry Corden
John Dehner
Brad Dexter
John Dierkes
Arthur Franz
Hal Hopper
John Huston
I. Stanford Jolley
Lash La Rue
Robert Livingston
George Macready
Guy Madison
John McIntire
Robert Mitchum
J. Carrol Naish
Mike Ragan
John Russell
Arthur Shields
John Sturges
Bob Steele
Forrest Tucker
Barbara Stanwyck