{"id":232,"date":"2008-02-11T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:30","slug":"buckskin-harry-fargo-tv-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/buckskin-harry-fargo-tv-cowboy.html","title":{"rendered":"Buckskin Harry, Fargo TV Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Buckskin_Harry%2C_WDAY_TV_Fargo\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/0\/02\/Buckskin-Harry-WDAY-TV.jpg\/473px-Buckskin-Harry-WDAY-TV.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Buckskin_Harry%2C_WDAY_TV_Fargo\">Buckskin Harry<\/a>, as far as I can tell at this time, was a local television personality here in Fargo.  Back in the day, local television stations did a lot more local programming than just the news; a lot of the national kids&#8217; shows like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clown-ministry.com\/index_1.php?\/site\/articles\/the_unusual_history_of_bozo_the_clown_attempting_to_unravel_who_did_what_wh\/\">Bozo the Clown<\/a> had its roots in local TV stations.  Even into the 1980s local stations had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/elviras-movie-macabre\/show\/13583\/summary.html\">thematic characters<\/a> do intros and commercial bumpers for horror movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We found this photo in a 1950s magazine, so it gave us a pretty good idea of about when &#8216;ol Buckskin graced the boob-tube.  Our first resource was my grandparents &#8212; Grandpa Vernon remembered Harry on TV in the 1950s, but Grandpa was nurturing a new family around that time and wasn&#8217;t watching mid-afternoon kids&#8217; programming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Going through a 1955 Fargo Forum, I found some more specific information:  Buckskin was on at 4 in the afternoon, an excellent timeslot lead into by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvparty.com\/lostpinky.html\">Pinky Lee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museum.tv\/archives\/etv\/H\/htmlH\/howdydoodys\/howdydoodys.htm\">Howdy Doody<\/a> &#8212; and Buckskin&#8217;s show ran for an hour and fifteen minutes.  I&#8217;m still doing my digging (my research method consists of doing very little, randomly encountering information&#8230;it works pretty well, actually), but if anybody out there remembers Buckskin, I&#8217;d appreciate any info.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-906145608815700681?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckskin Harry, as far as I can tell at this time, was a local television personality here in Fargo. Back in the day, local television stations did a lot more local programming than just the news; a lot of the national kids&#8217; shows like Bozo the Clown had its roots in local TV stations. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[67,289,481,107,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}