KO KO - Rex Allens Famous Silver Screen Horse - Willcox, AZ
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N 32° 15.154 W 109° 49.844
12S E 610143 N 3569031
Buried in Railroad park in Willcox, along with the ashes of Rex Allen and his statue.
Waymark Code: WM103XJ
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2019
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County of Statue: Cochise County.
Location of Statue: Railroad St. & Maley St., Railroad Park, Willcox
Date Statue Erected: July 4, 1991
Sculptor: Buck McCain
Foundry: Desert Crucible, Inc
Sponsors: The City of Willcox, The Rex Allen Arizona Cowboys Museum, Sulphur Springs Valley Historical Society
Plaque Text:
1940 "KO KO" 1967
REX ALLEN'S STALLION
Co-Star in 30 Motion Pictures.
Treveled over half a million miles
with Rex in U.S. and Canada.
Billed as "The Most Beautiful
Horse in the World." At Rest
Here "Belly High" in the green
Grass of Hose Heaven.
Marker text of the West plaque:
Rex Allen's recording career was launched with Mercury Records in 1946 and spanned 30 years. The song that became his trademark, " Streets of Laredo", sold over 3 million copies.
In 1949 Rex signed with Republic Pictures in Hollywood, the motion picture studio responsible for the careers of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. Starring in 19 action-packed westerns with "Ko-Ko" through 1954, Rex was the last of the "Silver Screen Cowboys."
In the television years of 1955 - 1956, Rex starred in 39 episodes of "Frontier Doctor."
During the next three decades, Rex and Koko appeared at every major rodeo in the U.S. and Canada. His golden voice has been heard on hundreds of commercials over the years, and he narrated more than 100 Nature films for Walt Disney.
Proper description of statue as provided by the Smithsonian Institute:
A plaza setting, with at one end, a full-length portrait of singer Rex Allen reclining against a boulder backdrop. The young Rex Allen is seen dressed in cowboy garb - boots, jeans, western shirt with bandanna around neck, and cowboy hat. He also wears a horseshoe ring on his proper left pinky finger. He is holding a guitar, which rests on his bent proper right knee. The pink-stained concrete plaza is imprinted with numerous Arizona cattle brands and Rex Allen's signature. Five bronze plaques inset in plaza or on boulders give details of Allen's career and commemorate his stallion Ko Ko.