HOPPY: Who was the biggest cowboy star...
HOPPY: Who was the biggest cowboy star to live in Orange County? Don’t say John Wayne, even if they named the airport after him. It was William Boyd, who summered here with his wife, Grace, until his 1972 death in Laguna Beach (F1). . . . The silver-haired cowboy in black played America’s first true TV hero, Hopalong Cassidy. At the peak of his popularity in the early 1950s, more than 2,000 products--from lunch pails to six-shooters--bore his likeness.
