Elmira - Domestic cat owned by Bronco Layne, (Ty Hardin) a frontiersman and army scout featured on the western adventure BRONCO/ABC/1958-60. Elmira was named after "The Battle of Elmira," a civil war confrontation that Bronco fought in when while a member of the Texas Confederacy. Elmira hates chili. When Bronco went a wandering, he gave his cat to his storekeeper friend Enrique Cortez (Gerald Mohr).