One of Bohlin’s custom saddles was owned by two popular and durable Western actors.  Ray “Crash” Corrigan (1902-1976) ordered a special saddle and tack from Bohlin in 1938 which he used in about forty movies.  Corrigan appeared in dozens of Westerns and starred with John Wayne in twenty-four episodes of the 1930s serial “The Three Mesquiteers.”  

In 1937 he bought a 2000 acre ranch in Simi Valley, and transformed it into “Corriganville,” a full-service location lot for Hollywood production companies, with Western sets and towns, a sound stage and other facilities.  Twenty episodes of the “Range Busters” serial, in which he also starred, were filmed at  Corriganville, among many other productions. 

Corrigan also opened Corriganville to tourists, who for a small fee could watch movies being made.  This was wildly popular, since the productions studios in Hollywood almost never allowed tours.  Although Corrigan continued to appear in films and later on television, by the mid-a940s he was devoting most of his time to managing his production facility and other business interests. 

In 1945 he sold his splendid Bohlin saddle to his friend Charles Starrett (1903-1986), best known to Western fans as the “Durango Kid.” Between 1926 and 1953 Starrett starred in 130 Westerns (out of a total of 167 films), more than any other Western actor.  Starrett used the Corrigan saddle in all sixty of his “Durango Kid” movies, bringing the saddle’s total number of movie appearances to around 100 films.