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.
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.
Michael Falzarano
Michael Falzarano is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
He has been a professional musician since the 1970s, most notably in Hot Tuna, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Memphis Pilgrims, a Memphis- style rock and roll/ blues band that he founded in 1986.
Falzarano released an album entitled" We Are All One" in 2008 on Woodstock Records and" The King James Sessions" in 2005 on Blues Planet Records.
A re-released version of the song" Last Train Out," which he wrote in memory of the Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule bass player Allen Woody, appears on the record.
Blues Planet re-released" Mecca", an album that Falzarano and the Memphis Pilgrims originally released in 1996 on Relix Records with guests Jorma Kaukonen, Pete Sears, and Harvey Sorgen of Hot Tuna and Danny Louis of Gov't Mule.
When not performing with his own band, Falzarano can be seen with Hot Tuna, the Jorma Kaukonen Trio, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
Falzarano also produces other artists, and teaches guitar workshops at Jorma Kaukonen ’s Fur Peace Ranch.
In 2013, Falzarano's original composition" When There's Two There's Trouble" was featured in Alexandre Moors' critically acclaimed film" Blue Caprice" with Isaiah Washington, Tim Blake Nelson, and Joey Lauren Adams.
Falzarano also appears in the movie.
Michael is currently touring with his band, The Englishtown Project, covering Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Marshall Tucker Band songs.
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.
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.
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 (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.
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.
Lynn Reynolds
Lynn Fairfield Reynolds (May 7, 1889 – February 25, 1927) was an American director and screenwriter.
Reynolds directed 81 films between 1915 and 1928.
He also wrote for 58 films between 1914 and 1927.
Reynolds was born in Harlan, Iowa and died in Los Angeles, California, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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.

Question: What is the cause of death of director of film Riders Of The Purple Sage (1925 Film)?
Answer: gunshot wound