Garden of the Gods was part of the Iverson Movie Ranch, which flourished from 1912 until the late 1960s during the golden era of the "B" Western movies. The site became known as the "most shot up location in movie history." Hundreds of Hollywood cowboys rode here with their trusted horses, including Rex Allen, Gene Autry, William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Johnny Mack Brown, Sunset Carson, Gary Cooper, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Eddie Dean, "Wild" Bill Elliott, William S. Hart, Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, Allan "Rocky" Lane, Lash LaRue, Robert Livingston, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy, Tom Mix, Clayton Moore (the Lone Ranger), George O’Brien, Roy Rogers, Randolph Scott, Charles Starrett (the Durango Kid), Bob Steele, and John Wayne. They left indelible hoof prints on these trails.
