Elvis Presley and John Wayne are two icons of Americana whose symbolic legacy lives on almost half a century after their deaths.

The Hollywood contemporaries, who have both received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, almost co-starred together in 1969’s True Grit, for which Duke won his Best Actor Oscar.

Nevertheless, Elvis, who greatly admired Wayne from watching his movies as a child, would occasionally bump into the Western legend on studio lots.

Given their shared patriotic and…