If you didn’t pick it up during the scene, a tribute at the end of the episode that reads “In Loving Memory of Billy Klapper” ...

In the mid-season premiere of Yellowstone, the episode was dedicated "In Loving Memory of Billy ... Klapper quit working as a cowboy and began making gear full time in 1968. He had learned a bit ...

Lloyd Pierce mentioned Billy Klapper while talking to Rip and later we see the latter admiring a pair of spurs made by him.

And his appearance came just two months after his death. Billy Klapper, a spur and bit maker from Pampa in the Texas Panhandle, filmed a scene at his shop with Cole Hauser's character, Rip.

That craftsman was Billy Klapper, who appeared in the episode as himself. A legend in his field, Klapper started to make bits and spurs full-time in 1968. He was specifically known in the cowboy ...

Billy Klapper guest starred in a scene with Cole Hauser more than halfway through the episode. Yellowstone showed Rip driving into a business with a “1319 Klapper Spurs Bits” sign outside ...

and the premiere featured a dedication to Billy Klapper. The first episode of season 5B sees a scene where Rip, played by Cole Hauser, stops by a loriner to purchase a horse bit for Lloyd (Forrie J.

Billy Klapper appeared as a loriner in Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2. The premiere episode showed Rip paying a visit to a local loriner (Klapper) in Pampa, Texas, in order to buy a bit for Lloyd.

Family and friends said Klapper made 682 different spur patterns and 816 different bit patterns, which have been used by bit ...