Clue 7 : So hear me all and listen good

‘So hear me all and listen good’

I believe everyone would have identified this clue if Forrest had  said ‘now listen up and listen good’.

The quote is attributed to the actor John Wayne.

My answer to this clue is ‘Rooster Cogburn'.

Rooster Cogburn.

It's apparent that Forrest has provided a lot of confirmatory information for this answer:

On the searcher blogs (Scrapbooks 50 & 53)  Forrest published two items from a searcher who had  a pet rooster called ‘John Wayne’ accompanied by a picture of a rooster.

The subject heading of Scrapbook 175  is 'Iron Rooster' including a picture of a rooster.

The whole of Scrapbook 193 discusses an email from a Searcher called 'Rooster Cogburn'.

Scrapbook 192 mentions 'John Wayne'.

A book called Rhymes from a Round up Camp highlighted  extensively by Forrest in his book collecting video was written, as Forrest says, by Wallace ‘Coburn’ and illustrated by Charles  ‘M’ Russell .  The ‘M’ stands  for ‘Marion’,  John Wayne’s real first name.

In Rhymes from a Round up Camp there's a poem called Yellowstone Pete’s only Daughter. In Forrest’s copy of the book  he points out a cartoon by Russell drawn inside the front cover, about Yellowstone Pete.  He hints to camera about the name of the owner of the book.  Yellowstone Pete’s  real life name was Goldie ‘Marion’ Robins.

The cover of Forrest's book Too Far to Walk has a shadowed figure on the front sleeve.  This (hat wearing) shadow figure fits the profile of Edward S. Curtis the photographer who specialised in studying native Americans.  The native Americans called him ‘Shadow Catcher’. Curtis’s middle name was ‘Sheriff’. As Forrest said ‘Only the shadow knows’.

Forrest also mentioned John Wayne in Scrapbook 84 and again in two stories for the publications Newsweek and Altered Dimensions.

So in several locations Forrest has hinted at:

‘cogburn’, ‘marion’, ‘sheriff’, ‘rooster’, ‘john wayne’.

It seemed very likely that Forrest brought these references to the attention of Searchers deliberately to be used as hints, particularly as many of the references were included within a small section of one video sponsored by Forrest.

The White Knight.