Sheriff Sam Brown

Sheriff Sam Brown is a character who is a good friend to Pearl from Home on the Range.

Home on the Range
Sam is the bumbling, elderly sheriff of the town and Buck's owner. He first shows up in the movie nailing a wanted poster for Alameda Slim on a post, riding Buck. He shows up again later to bring a bank notice to Pearl, explaining that the banks are going to auction off her home if she can't pay the full amount she owes them because they are losing so much money due to cattle rustlers leaving behind so many bankrupt ranchers. After suggesting that Pearl sells off a few of her animals to pay the debt, she chases him off her property in a fury, sending him running.

We see him again later when Mrs. Calloway, Maggie and Grace go to town and try to find him to ask for more time to get the money, running into Buck in the process. They see him pay the bounty hunter Rico a large sum of money when Rico turns in a criminal, giving Maggie the idea to catch Alameda Slim for the reward, which Mrs. Caloway thinks is a ridiculous idea. When Maggie and Mrs. Calloway start fighting and causing a commotion, Sam runs out and ropes them both and Grace. He then ties the three bovines to the back of a chuck wagon, as he mistakenly thinks they belong to the cattle driver and not realizing they're Pearl's cows.

When Rico mentions he needs a fresh horse, Sam tries to think of a horse for the bounty hunter, describing everything that Rico would need in a mount with Buck behind him, trying to prove that he was the perfect horse. Rico chooses to take Buck, with Sam warning him about his headstrong nature.

Later, after Rico has tried to return Buck only for the stallion to escape the ranchers who were trying to return him and run off to prove himself to Rico again, we see Sam and his dog both becoming visibly sad as the ranchers explain that Buck ran off, both of them clearly missing the wild-natured horse.

At the climax of the film, we see Sam auctioning off the farm, unknowingly selling it to Alameda Slim, and attempting to auction off the chicks. Seeing the train coming crashing behind him, the auctiongoers panic, Pearl rushes forward to grab the chicks before they get hurt, and Sam dives out of the way of the train. After a brief battle, the cows get the best of Slim when his disguise is removed revealing his identity, and Sam was horrified that the man who is buying the farm is Alameda Slim and ropes him up to haul him off to jail, giving Pearl the reward money, which allows her to save her farm.

At the end of the film, the Sheriff dances with Pearl as they and all the farm animals (who are also seen dancing) celebrate Little Patch of Heaven being salvaged and re-opened, and everyone (except Slim) gets a happy ending.