Foy Willing
Foy Willing( May 14, 1914 – July 14, 1978) was a singer, songwriter, musician, and bandleader who performed Western music and appeared in Western movies.
He formed the Western band Riders of the Purple Sage.
Buck Page
Buck Page (June 18, 1922 — August 21, 2006) founded the first western band known as Riders of the Purple Sage.
Page, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began performing on local radio at age 11.
He played string bass and rhythm guitar for a western band, The Valley Ranch Boys.
Two years later he formed a staff band for Pittsburgh radio station KDKA that he named Riders of the Purple Sage after the title of the Zane Grey novel.
Riders of the Purple Sage performed five hour-long shows a week on KDKA from 1936–1938.
The band later moved to New York City and performed on radio station WOR and at a nightclub, Village Barn.
Page served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
During the war another western band using the name Riders of the Purple Sage was organized in California by singer Foy Willing.
Page moved to the West Coast in the 1950s.
He and Willing eventually met and the two men formed a lifelong friendship.
Page, who could play 21 instruments, worked as a studio musician in California.
He played guitar on the original recording of the theme song for the NBC western series "Bonanza" and also served as background musician for the TV shows "Wagon Train" and "Laramie".
According to Bob Bain, however, the only one of the four guitarists on the "Bonanza" theme recording still living, Page was not one of the guitarists on that session.
In the late 1950s, Page lived in Hesperia, California where he owned and ran a restaurant.
He also rodeoed in the summer circuit, traveling with rodeo champion Eddy Akridge.
In the 1960s Page worked for the Baldwin Piano Company and helped engineers develop the Supersound amplifier.
Page received the Country/Western Living Legend Award from the North American Country Music Associations International in 2001.
His first solo recording, "Right Place to Start", was released on CD in December 2005.
Page's last public concert was in July 2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he performed before a crowd of several thousand people during a National Day of the Cowboy celebration.
Page died in his apartment at the Burbank Senior Artists Colony in Burbank, California.
His death was attributed to natural causes.
The Rainbow Trail (1932 film)
The Rainbow Trail is a 1932 Western film directed by David Howard and starring George O'Brien.
The picture is an adaptation of Zane Grey's novel of the same name and a sequel to the 1931 film" Riders of the Purple Sage", which also stars O'Brien.
Skip Battin
Clyde" Skip" Battin( February 18, 1934 – July 6, 2003) was an American singer- songwriter, bassist, performer, and recording artist.
He was a member of the Byrds, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
Hamilton MacFadden
Hamilton MacFadden (April 26, 1901 – January 1, 1977) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director.
MacFadden's parents were Rev. Robert A. MacFadden and Edith Hamilton MacFadden.
His father died in 1909, leaving his mother to support herself and four children.
In 1928, she became the first woman to file papers to run for governor of Massachusetts.
MacFadden was a 1925 graduate of Harvard University.
Soon after graduating, he became producer of the American Theatre Company, which presented plays for 10 weeks in the Boston area.
The project was backed by Michael Strange, a writer who made her professional stage debut in the productions.
He also served as director of the Community Arts Association in Santa Barbara, California, and the Theatre Guild School of Acting in New York.
After starting out on Broadway in the 1920s, he moved into filmmaking in Hollywood.
During the early 1930s he was a contract director at Fox.
McFadden made a number of films for them including several early entries in the Charlie Chan series such as "Charlie Chan Carries On" (1931).
He was released from his Fox contract following the 1934 merger with Twentieth Century Pictures.
Thereafter he mixed occasional directing jobs with a number of small supporting appearances in films.
John Dawson (musician)
John Collins Dawson IV( June 16, 1945 – July 21, 2009), nicknamed" Marmaduke", was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.
He was best known as the leader and co-founder of the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
He sang lead vocals on most of the band ’s songs.
Riders of the Purple Sage (1931 film)
Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film based upon the novel by Zane Grey, directed by Hamilton MacFadden, photographed by George Schneiderman, and starring George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill (who later married in 1933).
The picture was released by the Fox Film Corporation with a running time of 58 minutes and remains the third of five screen versions.
The movie was followed later the same year by a similar adaptation of the novel's sequel, "The Rainbow Trail", also starring O'Brien.
Riders of the Purple Sage (1925 film)
Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1925 American silent western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix, Mabel Ballin, and Warner Oland.
Based on the 1912 novel" Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey, the film is about a former Texas Ranger who pursues a corrupt lawyer who abducted his married sister and niece.
His search leads him to a remote Arizona ranch and the love of a good woman.
The film is preserved today.
David Nelson (musician)
David Nelson( born June 12, 1943, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter.
He is perhaps best known as a co-founder and longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
The Rainbow Trail (1918 film)
The Rainbow Trail is a lost 1918 American silent western film directed by Frank Lloyd.
The picture was an adaptation of Zane Grey's novel of the same name.
It was a sequel to the 1918 film" Riders of the Purple Sage", which also starred William Farnum as Lassiter.
" The Rainbow Trail" was remade, with sound, in 1931.

Question: Where did the director of film Riders Of The Purple Sage (1931 Film) study?
Answer: Harvard University