Welcome to the town that inspired many a Hollywood Western.
American actors Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef on the set of"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly."During the filming of the first installment of his documentary, he spoke with more than 70 residents, many of whom are related to the area’s first Native American or settler populations — or both.
Barbee says several ranchers would collect old equipment like decommissioned freight wagons and stagecoaches and store them on their property. “They’d have cowhands, heads of cattle, and all the vehicles and say to [location] scouts, ‘I’ve got everything you need, where do you need it?’”University of Southern Californi/Corbis via Getty Images
Roy Rogers on Trigger next to Dale Evans. In the early '50s, Rogers was a filming fixture in Kernville before it was flooded to become Lake Isabella.Following the war, the government lay claim to the area and decided to build a dam and reservoir. The townspeople of Kernville tried to move what buildings they could to higher ground nearby, but most of the town — the general store, jail, and a Methodist church — were blown to smithereens.
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