Express Males
Mike Hammer
YM March 1990
Doctors gasp when the young bald man covered in blood ambles into the emergecncy room. A skinhead settling political issues in typical fashion? Naah, it's just Travis Fine, one of the stars of ABC-TV's hot new series The Young Riders.
"The blood was fake," the former high school football star admits. "I just had a scrape on my neck after falling off my horse. I though I'd give the docs a little excitement."
Fine's cowboy co-stars, pulse quickeners in their own right, are Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Gregg Rainwater, and Ty Miller, the sensitive and sensational-looking leader of the group. The series follows the real trail of the original Pony Express riders in the Old West. But realism hasn't always been easy on the actors.
"None of us were what you'd call expert riders," admits Miller, who's learned to handle his TV horse Katy quite well. "They had to go through about six horses before they found one that wouldn't buck me off," Baldwin chips in. In the meantime, the guys are having a good time playing cowboy.
"The other night we were sitting around the campfire and I felt like I was in the Boy Scouts again," Rainwater says. "It's almost like we don't have to grow up when we're on the set."
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