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Fictional cowboy

This article is about the fictional character. For the restaurant, see Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe.

For other uses, see Pecos Bill (disambiguation).

Fictional character

Pecos Bill (PAY-kəs) is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. These narratives were invented as short stories in a book by Tex O'Reilly in the early 20th century and are an example of American "fakelore". Pecos Bill was a late addition to the larger-than-life characters, such as Paul Bunyan or John Henry.

History

The first known stories were published in 1917 by Edward O'Reilly for The Century Magazine, and collected and reprinted in 1923 in the book Saga of Pecos Bill. O'Reilly claimed they were part of an oral tradition of tales told by cowboys during the westward expansion and settlement of the southwest, including Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. But American folklorist Richard M. Dorson found that O'Reilly invented the stories as "folklore", and that later writers either borrowed tales from O'Reilly, or added further adventures of their own invention to the cycle.

Edward O'Reilly co-authored a cartoon strip with cartoonist Jack A. Warren, also known as Alonzo Vincent Warren, between 1929 and 1938. When O'Reilly died in 1946, Warren began a strip titled Pecos Pete. This was a story about "Pecos Bill", who had received a "lump on the naggan" that caused him amnesia. The cartoons originally were published in The Sun and were later syndicate

For more than 31 years, Betty Taylor graced the stage of Disneyland’s popular Golden Horseshoe Revue. She made famous the role of Slue Foot Sue, the spunky leader of a troupe of western dance hall girls. Betty became the darling of nearly 10 million guests, who, over the years, visited the saloon to see the world’s longest-running stage show. In the nearly 45,000 performances in which she appeared, the charming, vivacious blonde never lost her girlish enthusiasm for playing the role of Pecos Bill’s sweetheart. As former Disneyland magic shop cast member, comedian Steve Martin, wrote in Betty’s autograph book, “How come I’m the only one who grows old around here?”

Born on October 7, 1919, in Seattle, Washington, Betty began taking dance lessons at age three. By the age of 12, she appeared in her first professional stage production in Vancouver, British Colombia. At 14, she sang and danced in nightclubs across the country, and, by 18, she led her own band—Betty and Her Beaus. The group, which included 16 male musicians, appeared regularly at the Trianon Ballroom in Seattle.

She went on to perform with a western radio show, “Sons of the Pioneers,” and traveled with big band leaders Les Brown, Henry Bussey, and Red Nichols. She even played a six-week stint in Las Vegas with “old blue eyes” himself, Frank Sinatra.

In 1956, while living in Los Angeles, Betty was about to hit the road playing drums for a musical group when she heard about auditions for a singing-and-hoofing job in Walt Disney’s new theme park. She threw her garter into the ring, so to speak, and was hired as Slue Foot Sue. She later described the role as “not a hard character, but rather like a Mae West or a Kitty on the vintage television series Gunsmoke.”

On occasion, Betty and the 10-member Revue troupe performed outside of the Park. In 1968, for instance, they took their act on a USO tour of Greenland a

Slue-Foot Sue

Slue-Foot Sue is a character from the 1948 film Melody Time who is affiliated with Frontierland.slay

Slue-Foot Sue was a cowgirl in the Wild West who was best known for wrangling giant catfish to ride on land like horses. She came to garner the affections of legendary gunslinging cowboy Pecos Bill whom she had frequent relations with. Pecos Bill and Sue came to court one another and in 1871, Sue would establish the Golden Horseshoe Saloon in the town of Rainbow Ridge within the Big Thunder region.

Pecos Bill would regularly perform within the Golden Horseshoe Saloon, namely in showing off his gunslinging abilities. In 1878, Pecos made his own establishment in the form of the Tall Tale Inn in the nearby mining town of Tumbleweed where he regularly served individuals from the Big Thunder Mining Company. Amongst the objects kept in the inn were a portrait of Sue and gloves resembling Sue's which she gave to Bill as a gift.

Around 1880, Slue and Bill got engaged but on their wedding day Sue rode Bill's horse Widowmaker who was jealous of Sue's relationship with Pecos. This lead to Widowmaker bucking Sue off of his back and sending her to the moon. This event caused Bill to go into self-imposed exile however as it would turn out, Sue survived and became a resident of the nearby town Thunder Mesa where she garnered a troublesome reputation.

Appearances and allusions[]

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad[]

There is a message from Pecos Bill on the bulletin-board which reads, "Come celebrate my marriage to the prettiest lady in Tumbleweed, my wife Sue, at the Dust Saloon. Drinks are on you!- Bill".

The Diamond Horseshoe[]

Sue is the host of this attraction, mirroring her role in the Golden Horseshoe Saloon.

Golden Horseshoe Saloon[]

Sue is the hostess of the shows within this restaurant in Disneyland's Frontierland. Her likeness is also utiliz

Frank Rich, NY Times:
'''Pecos Bill,' which runs roughly 20 minutes, was actually written by Mr. Shepard directly for the stage. According to the program, it was commissioned and then rejected, for unspecified reasons, by the San Francisco Bicentennial Committee of 1976. Perhaps that committee found 'Pecos Bill' too downbeat, but it's also possible that the work was deemed too insubstantial. Though billed as a 'comic operetta,' 'Pecos Bill' is merely an extended frontier ballad that, stripped of repetition, could fit on a single side of a 45-r.p.m. record."

"The song's engaging music, composed by Mr. Shepard and Catherine Stone, sounds like a cut from Bob Dylan's 'Nashville Skyline' as rewritten by Kurt Weill. The incantatory lyrics state some of Mr. Shepard's recurring themes without dramatizing them. Pecos Bill tamed the West 'all by hand'; he was 'a legend' and 'a giant.' Yet the legacy of his myth is not one of heroism, but of death, and it's a modern legacy that neither he nor a nation can escape..."

"If 'Pecos Bill' were sung by Willie Nelson and if the wife he kills, Sluefoot Sue, were Bette Midler, this number might be a lively turn in a jamboree of revisionist Americana. As performed by Mark Petrakis, a decidedly urban cowboy, and O-lan Shepard, who is Mr. Shepard's wife, it just drones on; only the onstage band seems alive. The staging, much of it involving a giant replica of a steer's head, is clumsy; one is rather shocked to discover that the director is Julie Hebert, who installed Mr. Shepard's energetic choreography of 'Fool for Love' at the Circle Repertory Company."

Benedict Nightingale, NY Times:
'''Pecos Bill' is a gaudy cantata in which the outlaw of the title, arriving onstage on a