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Jan 7, 2019 · In 1951-’52, Jeb Rosebrook (far left) was a junior at The Orme School. He was on the school’s first football, basketball and rodeo teams, equally comfortable playing five-on-five against the rival Mayer Wildcats as he was team-roping for the Orme Roping and Rodeo Association.
September 2, 2018 A week ago, Mark McDowell and I met at Jeb Rosebrook's house in Scottsdale to make a final toast. Our Final T...
Sep 27, 2019 · When Jeb was around I knew there would be plenty of laughing mixed with great storytelling. This issue is a living tribute to members of our family and that would include Tombstone and the Rosebrook family.
Jeb Rosebrook was born on 11 June 1935 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Black Hole (1979), The Waltons (1972) and I Will Fight No More Forever (1975). He was married to Dorothy Rosebrook. He died on 31 August 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- Writer, Producer
- June 11, 1935
- Jeb Rosebrook
- August 31, 2018
- The Courthouse Plaza, Downtown Prescott and The Frontier Days Parade
- The Palace Bar and Whiskey Row
- The Fairgrounds, The Homestead, A Bull and The Rodeo
- The Train Station
- Yavapai County
- Steve McQueen: The King of Western Cool
In Junior Bonner, the Yavapai County Courthouse Plaza and downtown Prescott are featured extensively throughout the script and film. Prescott was founded in 1864 as the Territorial Capital of Arizona, and the World’s Oldest Rodeo debuted on July 4, 1888, as did the parade. During the production of Junior Bonner, location manager and rodeo chairman ...
The Palace Bar, known today as the Palace Restaurant and Saloon, has been a central gathering place on Montezuma Street, aka Whiskey Row, across from the Yavapai County Courthouse and Plaza since it first opened as the Cabinet Saloon in 1874. In Junior Bonner, the Palace Bar, had center stage. Director Sam Peckinpah made one of the upstairs rooms h...
While the World’s Oldest Rodeo had its first competition in Prescott in 1888, the Yavapai County Fairgrounds featured in Junior Bonnerwas not built until the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps funded and built it in the 1930s. Luckily for the production team, the location manager, Bill Pierce, was also the Prescott Ja...
The Santa Fe, Phoenix and Prescott Railway began operating between Ash Fork and Prescott in 1893. When my father first came to Arizona with his mother Jean in February 1945 they arrived on the Super Chief and were met in Ash Fork by Charles H. Orme Sr. The scene at Prescott’s train station, between father and son, Ace and Junior, Robert Preston and...
Most of my father’s school years from 1945 to 1953 were at the Orme School on the Quarter Circle V Bar Ranch, set along Ash Creek in the rolling grasslands and high mesa country 35 miles east of Prescott. His daily life was equally divided between school, sports and ranch chores. Nature and the high desert were ever present in his life and going to...
When Steve McQueen signed on to star in Junior Bonnerin 1971, he was the highest-paid movie star in the world—a position he rocketed to in a very short time considering the competition and era of filmmaking. McQueen’s first role in a Western was as supporting actor in Goodyear Playhouse’s 1955 episode “The Chivington Raid”, but it was not until a l...
Aug 31, 2018 · Jeb Rosebrook discography and songs: Music profile for Jeb Rosebrook, born 11 June 1935.
May 27, 2016 · Author/Screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook talks about writing the best rodeo movie ever shot, Junior Bonner (directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Bonner http://jebrosebrook.com/ Shot during the 1971 4th of July parade and World's Oldest Rodeo in Prescott, AZ, this lyrical depiction of a changing ...
