Art Acord

Choose an answer from the three choices and True/False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. He won the Steer Bulldogging world championship in 1912 and repeated as champion in 1916. Who did he beat in the championship?

• Tom Mix
• Hoot Gibson
• William S. Hart

2. Acord was one of the few cowboys to have ridden the proclaimed bucking horse named Steamboat for the full eight seconds, which later inspired the bucking horse logo on the Wyoming license plate.

• True or False?

3. The Two Brothers is a 1910 short (17 min.) Western film directed by D. W. Griffith. Who was NOT a member of the cast with Acord?

• Hoot Gibson
• Mary Pickford
• Mildred A. Hill

4. The Squaw Man (1914) was the first feature-length movie made specifically in Hollywood (although not the first to be made in the Los Angeles area). The movie stars Dustin Farnum. Art Acord plays a townsman (uncredited). Who played the Faro Dealer (uncredited)?

• Cecil B. DeMille
• Winifred Kingston
• Hal Roach

5. The Moon Riders is a 1920 Western film serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Theodore Wharton. The movie stars Art Acord and Mildred Moore. What is the name of Acord’s character?

• Arizona Baldwin
• Homer Gant
• Buck Ravelle

6. The White Horseman is a 1921 Western film serial directed by Albert Russell. It stars Acord and Eva Forrestor. How many episodes made up the serial?

• 14 episodes
• 16 episodes
• 18 episodes

7. In the Days of Buffalo Bill is a 1922 Western film serial directed by Edward Laemmle. The film stars Art Acord and Duke R. Lee. Acord plays Buffalo Bill Cody.

• True or False?

8. In 1926, Acord plays ‘Arizona’ Allen. What was the film?

9. Marshal Bill Strong sees Red and his gang rob Jake Grant and make him a prisoner. So he arrives posing as a dude to get into the gang. When Jake's daughter arrives he gets Red to let him take her to a cabin where Red can visit her later. Then he frees Jake, sends the gang after him knowing the Sheriff will get them, and goes after Red himself. What is the name of this 1929 Western?

• The Arizona Kid
• Santa Fe
• Tombstone

10. In Trailin' Trouble (1930), Acord plays in his first sound picture and last film. He plays Art Dobson in an uncredited role. Who was the movie’s star?

• Tom Mix
• Hoot Gibson
• John Wayne

Where is Art Acord buried?

Check Your Answers

1. Hoot Gibson
2. True
3. Mildred A. Hill
4. Cecil B. DeMille
5. Buck Ravelle
6. 18 episodes
7. False. Duke R. Lee plays Cody.
8. Western Pluck
9. The Arizona Kid
10. Hoot Gibson

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