The Monogram Trio Westerns - the Trail Blazers with Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele and Chief Thunder Cloud

The Trail Blazers
8 Films
1943 - 1944

From L-to-R are Bob Steele, Hoot Gibson, Chief Thunder Cloud and Rocky Camron in OUTLAW TRAIL (1944).

Rocky Camron (real name: Gene Alsace) was a member of the 'stable of baddies' at both Monogram and PRC during the 1940s. In a couple of Trail Blazers' films, he played a good guy for a change.

Relaxing on the set of OUTLAW TRAIL (1944) are, from L-to-R, Hoot Gibson, Chief Thunder Cloud, Rocky Camron, Jennifer Holt, and Bob Steele. Jennifer Holt is the sister of RKO cowboy Tim Holt, and was a frequent leading lady to Johnny Mack Brown, Eddie Dean and Lash LaRue in the 1940s.

Above, veteran baddies Al Ferguson (left) and George Chesebro (right) have the drop on Bob Steele.

(Courtesy of Minard Coons)

Above, from L-to-R are Forrest Taylor, Hoot Gibson, former Universal hero Bob Baker (wearing the badge), Betty Miles, Kenneth Harlan (at the desk), Ken Maynard and I. Stanford Jolley in WILD HORSE STAMPEDE (Monogram, 1943), the initial entry in the Trail Blazers series.

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

Above, from L-to-R are Betty Miles, Bob Steele, John Bridges, and Hoot Gibson in SONORA STAGECOACH (Monogram, 1944), one of the Trail Blazers without Ken Maynard.