RIP Red Wolverton

 

Veteran horse wrangler, stuntman and actor Ivan ‘Red’ Wolverton died in Fredonia, Arizona on July 14th he was 94. Red was born on September 22, 1929, in Kansas City, Kansas. He wa a real cowboy, one of the last of a breed. In the first act of his life, he drove horses as a boy in the Kansas fields, then learned to ride in Colorado where he lived with his 8 brothers and sisters. He left school young and went to Oregon, where he was hired on in the Big Ranch country, of the ZX and MC ranches. He rode the broncs others couldn't ride, lived and loved the cowboy life. He embarked on the second act of his life when he achieved the dream of getting a stagecoach, raising and training a 6-horse hitch, and driving along the Overland Trail for America's Bicentennial. That lead into working in western movies in Colorado and Arizona, including "The White Buffalo" and "Comes A Horseman," "Stagecoach," "Posse," and "Tombstone”. Red worked on three Euro westerns “The Man Hunt” with Ethan Wayne and performed stunts and was livestock coordinator on “Posse” in 1993 with Mario Van Peebles and worked as a wrangler on Johnny Depp’s “Deadman” in 1995.