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# The Palouse Cowboy who Invented John Wayne
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/the-palouse-cowboy-who-invented-john-wayne-vnqtoh/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:58:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:08:04.000Z
- Description: Yakima Canutt, a rodeo star from Palouse, became Hollywood's greatest stuntman. He even t
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 4, Episode 8, #ZZZ_Episode_a6e68bbf-1593-432a-a088-8a004e336166, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

A rodeo champion from Palouse, WA, became a Hollywood stuntman just as "action Westerns" took off at the box office. Yakima Canutt could leapfrog onto a horse, fall off it, stage a wagon wreck or a fight, and usually as the double for a star. John Wayne studied Canutt, and modeled his famous walk and talk after him.