- Verlane Desgrange, a nationally acclaimed saddle maker and leather worker known for the ergonomics of accommodating rider to horse. She learned her craft in part as an apprentice to master Western saddle maker, Cliff Ketchum, in Ralston, Wyoming, USA.
- Cliff Ketchum showed master Western saddle maker Don King many tricks of the trade, including leather stamping and how to make one's own tools from nails.
- Cliff Ketchum showed master Western saddle maker Don King many tricks of the trade, including leather stamping and how to make one's own tools from nails. Known as an emeritus saddle maker, King was initially encouraged to work with leather during a visit with Ketchum at Porter's Saddle Shop in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Ketchum has a similar effect in helping famed saddle maker Pedro Pedrini in learning his craft.
- Ketchum served as a mentor in helping famed saddle maker Pedro Pedrini in learning his craft.
- Bob Morgan was fearless as a stuntman for many screen stars, i.e., Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, John Wayne, and many others. In 1962 he was paid $250 for a difficult stunt requiring him to mount a coupling connecting railroad cars and hold fast to a brace of slipping logs on the speeding train. After doing it successfully someone shouted a wrong command releasing the logs. Two flat cars and a caboose ran over him. Following the amputation of his left leg his wife, Yvonne DeCarlo, supported his recovery and desire to return to work as a stuntman. One of his later roles on the movie Alvarez Kelly required him to ride a horse as a peg leg Confederate soldier. It was Cliff Ketchum who designed and made a scabbard saddle which Morgan described as being absolutely great for any amputee who likes to ride horses.
- Known as an emeritus saddle maker, Don King was initially encouraged to work with leather during a visit with Ketchum at Porter's Saddle Shop in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- In 1982 a five day silversmithing and saddle making workshop with Ketchum was held in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, USA. Participants paid $500 each.
- Cliff Ketchum's son, Patrick Ketchum, stated on a 2009 online forum that before the San Fernando Saddlery closed in 1967 his father was working on a saddle for John Wayne. It was claimed by his son that his father's saddles were so comfortable theta they enabled one to ride all day without becoming saddle sore.
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