Great piece on old Ben. But a couple of corrections are in order. Johnson hardly taught John Wayne to ride a horse, as Wayne had ridden since childhood and had been in scores of Westerns before Johnson ever showed up in Hollywood. And Johnson never made anywhere near 300 movies, even if one includes the ones he only did stunts in. He acted in fewer than 70 movies and stunted in an additional 15-20. Even if you count every single TV episode as a "movie," it doesn't hit 200, much less 300. I wish he had made that many, but unfortunately he made less than a hundred. Nonetheless, he is a great source of pride for Oklahoma. He was a very nice man in person, too.