Pals of the Prairie

Nearly, but not quite since it was made by Robert Tansey for Imperial and not Bernard B. Ray for Reliable. Actually, a warm-up short western featurette made prior to Tansey beginning the Wally Wales series of western shorts. While Buffalo Bill Jr/Jay Wilsey is top-billed, he is a semi-villain that loses the girl to the short, comedic, bumbling Buck Owens(Buck), thanks to the efforts of Buck's short, comedic, bumbling pal Ben(Ben Corbett.)In this film the term comedic is used in a relative sense.

Story was by Perry Murdock, who didn't write many but the few he wrote always involved the leading actors getting into some kind of out-of-their-element situation, such as posing as vaudeville singers and comedians.That may account for why his name seldom appears as the writer of a western.