Festus rode horses yet also walked around the streets of Dodge City, where a lot of action in Gunsmoke originated. As for Curtis, he was born in Colorado and grew up on a ranch, MeTV reports.

The re-introduction of Festus Haggen was a nice segue into the harder questions Gunsmoke started to address in its first decade on air. In 1964 "Prairie Wolfer" looked at the ambiguity of decision ...