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The Mescal Movie Lot has been the birthplace of such classic "Cowboy movies" as Tombstone, Grizzly Adams,Calamity Jane, Little House on the Prairie, and Buffalo Soldiers, a history of hundreds of movies which involved stuntmen and hundreds of extras filmed in Mescal, Arizona. The lighting is exquisite at both dawn and dusk, with the mountains framing cactus, ocotillo, and sagebrush, and well-worn wagon trails in the dirt. Jesse Bell is a second generation horse trainer, whose own ranch is lined with props - a red stagecoach, buggies, and a plethora of horses which he trains and loans out to movie studios who continue to use building such as a saloon, feed store, bank and hotel and a "shootout" on Main Street is not an uncommon surprise for visiting tourists. |