America has never known a more enduring symbol than the cowboy. In the forties and fifties every youngster lived his own "Wild West" right in his own backyard. Each kid was a hero The play-acting had a much greater impact on lives than mere pastime. The traits acted out while "playing cowboy" shaped youngster's characters for the rest of their lives. These games sowed the seeds of wholesomeness, moral courage, honesty, and sacrifice.
America, and especially it's youth, has never been in greater need of cowboy heroes. Saturday morning television is obviously not what it once was. Cartoon characters and space creatures fill the air waves. No one is there for the kids to look up to and to set examples of right from wrong. They do not have a Hoppy, Gene, or Roy or their magnificent horses. It is their loss. These men were always on the side of right and always stuck up for the weak and oppressed. They represented the kind of virtues for which we hoped America would always stand.
Skeleton Creek Productions has produced four western films that bring these type of heroes to the kids of America. Stormy Lane and his two sidekicks, Texas and Cimarron have ridden the trails to help right the wrongs of the 1880's. They do not use foul language, they do not smoke and they only drink sarsaparilla. They live by the "Code of the West" which you read about later. Stormy, Texas and Cimarron have also entertained hundreds of boys and girls in schools and at air bases. As many as 500 have shown up to have their picture made with our three heroes and Diablo, Stormy's beautiful black and white horse. As you read the comment pages about each movie you will see how children and parents alike have fallen in love with Stormy, Texas and Cimarron.
Are you tired of actors and other celebrities letting the children of America down? Most of them shy away from being role models. We relish it. America is sorely in need of true heroes and true role models. It makes you wonder if these senseless acts of school violence would have occurred if these kids would have grown up with true Saturday morning heroes. Now they can. With the assistance of the right family oriented sponsor, Stormy Lane and his horse Diablo, and his two colorful sidekicks, Cimarron and Texas can become their Saturday morning heroes and ride the trails once more.