Trinity, I bet you have seen a Ben Johnson movie, here are just a few: Red Dawn, She wore a yellow ribbon, The Wild Bunch, Junior Bonner, My heros have always been cowboys, and he won a AA for The Last Picture Show, and about ten zillion other movies.
Ben Johnson had away around horses that always reminded me of the oldtimers that I remember when I was a kid, these men handled horses like they were tools that they had a lot of respect for.