(From Old Corral collection) Above are Dean (on War Paint) and pretty Jean Carlin in a lobby card from the Cinecolor CARAVAN TRAIL (PRC, 1946). Carlin (and Louise Currie) were the female leads in Dean's WILD WEST. (Courtesy of Minard Coons) Above are Dean with Flash, which was his hoss #2 (after War Paint). (From Old Corral collection) Above - Eddie Dean atop White Cloud, which was a palomino, not a white horse. White Cloud had a white splotch on the forehead above the eyes and a dark spot on the front left shoulder (which can be seen in the still above). Dean rides him in HAWK OF POWDER RIVER, SHADOW VALLEY and BLACK HILLS. Strangely, he rides a substitute White Cloud in CHECK YOUR GUNS (PRC, 1948). In that film, Eddie's White Cloud is the horse called Falcon by Buster Crabbe in his PRC Billy the Kid/Billy Carson series and James Newill named him Alamo and rode him in the Texas Rangers series. (Courtesy of Minard Coons) Above is Dean with his fourth and last hoss, Copper.

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

Left and below are pressbook clippings from BLACK HILLS and TORNADO RANGE about Eddie's horses White Cloud and Copper. (Courtesy of Les Adams)

The Motion Picture Herald and BoxOffice polls were conducted from about the mid 1930s through the mid 1950s.  With a few exceptions, the annual poll results would list the Top Ten (or Top Five) cowboy film stars.  In most cases, the winners were what you would expect --- Autry, Rogers, Holt, Starrett, Hoppy, etc. Though Dean's starring career was relatively short, and his films were made during the final years of the B western, he was able to garner a Top Ten ranking in the Motion Picture Herald poll. Note that only a few of PRC's western heroes ever attained a ranking in those polls --- in addition to Dean, Tex Ritter made the list in 1944 and '45 while in the Texas Rangers series.  Lash LaRue was never among the top ranked cowboy stars.