Colorado Gun Collectors Association 53Rd Annual Gun Show 1811 to 1840, and Was Only Passable on Foot Or by Horseback
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GUN SHOWS 2018 COLORADO GUN COLLECTORS Dates change and Shows are cancelled, so check before you travel Prospectors Sertoma Shows To be announced Apr. 28-29, Denver, CO Merchandise Mart Tanner Gun Show 720-514-0114 Volume 53 May 26-27, Riverton, WY Fremont County Fairgrounds Wyoming Weapons Collectors 307-742-4630 Number 4 ASSOCIATION Spokesman April 2018 May 26-27, Rifle, CO Garfield County Fairgrounds Colorado Militaria Collector 720-621-6339 Jun. 9-10, Dallas, TX Market Hall Dallas Arms Collectors 972-369-6062 THE OREGON TRAIL and the MEEK CUT-OFF Jul. 14-15, Denver, CO Merchandise Mart Tanner Gun Show 720-514-0114 The original Oregon Territory encompassed not just present-day Aug. 17-19, Montrose, CO Montrose County Fairgrounds Montrose Rod & Gun Club 970-249-9008 The Oregon Trail is a 2,170 large-wheeled wagon route that con- Oregon but also Washington and much of British Columbia. The Aug. 18-19, Denver, CO Merchandise Mart Tanner Gun Show 720-514-0114 nected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. The eastern part United States, Great Britain, Russia and Spain all initially claimed Sep. 22-23, Denver, CO Merchandise Mart Tanner Gun Show 720-514-0114 of the Oregon Trail spanned part of the future state of Kansas, and the territory. The United States based its claim to the land on the Sep. 29-30, Rifle, CO Garfield County Fairgrounds Colorado Militaria Collector 720-621-6339 nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. explorations of Lewis and Clark and the presence of trading posts Nov. 10-11, Tulsa, OK Expo Square Tulsa Fairgrounds Wanenmacher Tulsa Arms Show 918-492-0401 The western half of the trail spanned most of the future states of set up by American citizen John Jacob Astor. Spain and Russia Dec. 1-2, Denver, CO Merchandise Mart Tanner Gun Show 720-514-0114 Idaho and Oregon. would eventually drop their claims, and Great Britain and the United States would agree to border in 1846. Source Reference.com The Oregon Trail was laid by fur traders and traders from about Some wanted what is now British Columbia included, and pro- Colorado Gun Collectors Association 53rd Annual Gun Show 1811 to 1840, and was only passable on foot or by horseback. By posed war to settle it, “54-40 or fight”. 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Inde- Denver, CO May 2018 pendence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, In the early 1840s American settlers began to arrive in significant Setup: Thursday May 17, 3:00 PM to 8;00 PM Friday May 18, 9:00 AM to 6:00PM Idaho. Wagon trails were cleared increasingly farther west, and numbers, traveling overland via the Oregon Trail. The trail ended Show open to the Public May 19th 9:am to 5:00 pm & 20th 9:00m to 3:00 pm eventually reached all the way to the Willamette Valley in Ore- at The Dalles. It was not possible to take wagons farther west due gon, at which point what came to be called the Oregon Trail was to steep cliffs that fell straight into the Columbia River. Until the Show Chairman: Dave Weddle, 720-482-0167 complete. construction of the Barlow Road in 1846, the only way to reach Fort Vancouver and the Willamette Valley was by rafting down By 1842, many emigrants favored oxen—castrated bulls (males) the river from The Dalles. The name of the city comes from the Buying Guns online? Buying Guns online? generally over four years old—as the best animal to pull wagons, French word dalle (meaning either "sluice" akin to English "dale" $30 transfer Fee for CGCA Members $30 transfer Fee for CGCA Members because they were docile, generally healthy, and able to continue and German T[h]al, "valley") or "flagstone" and referring to the moving in difficult conditions such as mud and snow. Oxen could columnar basalt rocks carved by the river, in voyageur French Call Dave 970 484 4200 Call Don 303-877-4831 also survive on prairie grasses and sage, unlike horses, who had to used to refer to rapids), which was used by the French-Canadian be fed. Moreover, oxen were less expensive to purchase and main- employees of the North West Company to refer to the rapids of CGCA Henry Rifles are still available send a $600 check To: tain than horses. Oxen also could stand idle for long periods with- the Columbia River between the present-day city and Celilo Falls. CGCA Henry Rifle New Members out suffering damage to the feet and legs. "off" ox. While no reins, Also, in the same area was the Petite Dalles or Little Dalles, or 8075 S. Harrison Way bits, or halters were needed, the trainer had to be forceful. Oxen Short Narrows. Centennial, CO 80122 Ervin F. Farrell Arvada, CO typically traveled at a steady pace up to two miles an hour. Jean E. Rich Carlsbad, CA MEEK CUT-OFF Mules were used by some emigrants. The competing merits of Mountaineer Stephen B. Meek was born on Independence Day, oxen and mules were hotly debated among emigrants. Some found 1805, in Washington County, in southwestern Virginia. This was oxen to be more durable. Others, by contrast, believed that mules the same county of origin of two of Meek’s contemporaries -- were more durable, and mules may have had a lower attrition rate both our Absalom Smith (1805) and James Smith (1802) ances- Colorado Gun Collectors on the trail than oxen. Like oxen, mules could survive on prairie tors, the fathers of James and George “Washington” Smith, re- grasses. Mules were, however, notoriously ill-tempered. Mules spectively. Meek was an “independent” cuss, who wrote in his also cost about three times as much as oxen, a deciding factor for autobiography that when he was twenty years of age he recalled President many emigrants. becoming: “imbued with that restless spirit of adventure that has Darin Carwin In Memorium since been a marked characteristic of my life, and left my home 6020 Garland St. Oregon Country for the then comparatively unknown West.” This same “restless Arvada, CO 80004 John G. Kastner 1925-2018 In 1843, settlers of the Willamette Valley drafted the Organic spirit of adventure” -- which was perhaps responsible for the phe- 303-940-8630 Laws of Oregon organizing land claims within the Oregon Coun- nomenon of the entire Oregon Trail migration -- appeared to have guided every aspect of Meeks’s early life, which in turn greatly Stephen W. Pahs 1929-2018 try. Married couples were granted at no cost (except for the re- influenced the discovery and development of several of these vari- Gun Show Chairman quirement to work and improve the land) up to 640 acres (a sec- tion or square mile), and unmarried settlers could claim 320 acres ous early western wagon roads. Dave Weddle As the group was a provisional government with no authority, P.O. Box C these claims were not valid under United States or British law, but Stephen Meek and his more celebrated younger brother, Joe Fort Collins, CO 80522 Monthly Meeting Schedule they were eventually honored by the United States in the Donation Meek, had spent the decade of the 1830s in the western fur trade. 720-482-0167 Monthly Meetings are on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, except for the Land Act of 1850. In 1833 they accompanied Joseph Walker on an expedition that [email protected] December meeting. In December we have Christmas Dinner on the first resulted in locating what would become a major branch of the Saturday. Meetings start promptly at 7:00 P.M. They are held in the American The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory Oregon Trail known as the California Trail. Intending to explore Secretary/Treasurer Newsletter Editor Legion Hall at I-25 and Yale Ave., Exit #202 from I-25, East on Yale and take of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until Feb- the Great Salt Lake, they had gone too far West, and ended up Bill Pittman the 1st right. ruary 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was exploring down the Humboldt River to California, over a country 8075 S. Harrison Way admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon. Source Wikipedia then entirely unknown to trappers, across the Sierras and into Cal- Littleton, CO 80122 April 17, 2018 September 18, 2018 February 19, 2019 303-773-0238 May 15, 2018 October 16, 2018 March 19, 2019 April Program VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Gun Show Staff: [email protected] June 19, 2018 November 20, 2018 April 16, 2019 Bob Moulder Thursday May 17th to Sunday May 20th. July 17, 2018 December 1, 2018 May 21, 2019 Confederate Small Arms Doors, Security, etc. August 21, 2018 January 15, 2019 June 18, 2019 Call Joe Leiper 303-507-4012 4 ifornia’s Yosemite Valley. Retracing their route, they met Capt. The Riggs company was entirely unfamiliar with this “man FIELD: Tues., Aug. 26 (Day 2)--Went about 10 miles, still keep- the old one, does not intend to fall down to the Columbia via the Benjamin Bonneville in the fall of 1834, and accompanied him named Meek” who had passed by them only one week earlier ing up Malheur, crossing and re-crossing it twice, and camping John Day river at all as he told them on leaving Fort Boise, for we trapping the Snake River and all its tributaries to Walla Walla; without recognition. Meek did not approach every company com- upon it.