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[[File:Weir%20on%20horseback.jpg|right|thumb|''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]''|, October 14, 1986 ]] [[File:Weir%20and%20dog%20team.jpg|right|thumb||Actress Renee Davies and Walter Weir with dogsled at [[Caribou%20Bill|Caribou Bill]]|'s Klondike movie set on [[Edgewood%20Road|Edgewood Road]]|, near where the [[LaPan%20Highway|LaPan Highway]]| crosses it. ''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]''|, November 13, 2006 ]]'''Born:''' August 22, 1891

'''Died:''' March 24, 1945

'''Married: '''Ruth Weir

'''Children:'''

[[File:unnamed.png|left|thumb||Unidentified, undated news clipping, courtesy of Sean Dobbins]]'''Walter James Weir''' was a [[World%20War%20I%20veteran|World War I veteran]] (N.Y. Sgt. 311 Inf. 78 Div.), and a Saranac Lake mounted policeman and stuntman in [[silent%20films|silent films]] shot here. He served as Chief of Police in 1916. He led many [[Winter%20Carnival|Winter Carnival]] Parades off with his [[Dog%20Sledding|dogsled]]. Walter Weir is buried in [[Pine%20Ridge%20W|Pine Ridge Cemetery]]. In the 1940 Census, he was living at [[Sadie%20Francis%20Cottage|74 Lake Flower Avenue]], and he was listed as a farmer and livery operator.
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''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]'', December 29, 1955

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Sleigh-rides with Walter Weir's four horse team, and a straw-filled; sled took people to Winter picnics, accompanied by [[Ed%20LaBounty|Ed LaBounty]], his Russian sleigh, and Jingle-bell laugh.
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''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]'', April 11, 1969

[[File:Walter%20Weir.jpg|right|thumb||Walter Weir<br>|Courtesy of Sean Dobbins]]'''Movie-Making Here with Caribou Bill'''

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Walter Weir, who was a versatile performer and a great horseman, usually took bonebreaking chances in place of the star and also tutored the various actors on how to shoot properly from the saddle and the art of falling from a running horse with an arrow sticking in your chest.
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''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]'', March 23, 1991

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One dark and rainy night a wet, cold, and disconsolate doughboy was lamenting his predicament when he found himself trapped under fire in a muddy shell hole at the front. Suddenly, from another shell hole nearby, he recognized a familiar voice cursing his fate in a similar situation. Calling out across the darkness he yelled, "Hey is that you Dougal?" A reply came right back "I'll be d—ned is that you Walt?" Thus did two old buddies meet when [[Clint%20McDougal|Clint McDougal]] and Walter Weir made contact on a foreign battlefield far from home under most extraordinary conditions. Clint was a guide at [[Knollwood%20Club|Knollwood Club]] and Walt was a Saranac Lake policeman but apparently the two wound up in different companies while in France.

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