Alameda Slim is the main antagonist of the 2004 Disney animated film Home on the Range. He also appeared as the main antagonist in the film's original drafts, titled Sweatin' Bullets.
He was voiced by Randy Quaid like in the finished project.
Biography[]
In early development, Home on the Range was originally a supernatural western film called Sweatin' Bullets that would have featured a young cowhand stumbling upon a ghost town and encountering the ghost of Alameda Slim, a cattle rustler that sought revenge on all cattle and cattle drivers for his death via trampling. He plotted to run numerous heard of cattle off of cliffs, killing them and exacting his revenge.
When the story was changed to make the cowboy a young bull named Bullet, Alameda Slim and his plan were changed as well. He was restored to life, and instead plotted to use his hypnotic yodeling to control an army of cows to march on Washington D.C. so he could usurp the presidency. However, this polt was considered too ridiculous and was cut.
Later, Bullet was reworked into the three cows Maggie, Grace, and Mrs. Calloway, and the story was rewritten again to be about the cows going to get a bounty on a cattle rustler to save their farm. This concept would make it to the final product of Home on the Range, and Alameda Slim would be finalized as a cattle rustler seeking revenge on all his former employers for not appreciating him. Interestingly, his hypnotic yodeling was kept in the finished product.
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- Alameda Slim was inspired by a country singer and yodeler named Wilf Carter, who was also known as Montana Slim.