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Welcome to the 31st Annual Oracle Oaks Festival “Wild West Days in Oracle”
Greetings . . . Every spring our community comes together to celebrate everything from our oak trees and landscapes to our diverse personalities and passions. This year is no different as the Oracle Community Center once again hosts our annual Oaks Festival. Our theme this year is “Wild West Days in Oracle” honoring some of the wild west characters that have passed through our town and made their mark one way or the other. Start the day with breakfast inside the Center – then cheer at the festival parade, enjoy browsing booths, make a bid in our silent auction, and treat the kids to a cakewalk or games all day. Stay for lunch and enjoy music at our outdoor stage under the shade. There’s lots to see and do throughout the day all over Oracle. Check out the Library sale, Oracle State Park, the Car Show, as well as local shops and restaurants.
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Get all application forms, view Parade Map and further details on our website: www.OracleCommunityCenter.org
Parade Map Legend ••••• Car Show Route - - - - Parade Route
A - (Village Square) Start of Car Show.
B - (St. Helen’s) Start of Oaks Festival Parade.
C - (Oracle Inn) Parade Announcing
D - (near Post Office) Oaks Festival Parade Finish
E - (OCC) Announce Oaks Festival Parade Winners (2pm)
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6:30-10:30 a.m...... Oracle Pancake or Burro Breakfast inside Oracle Community Center (OCC). 6:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m...... Silent Auction (inside OCC). Winners announced between 2:30-3:00pm. You must be present to win. 7 a.m.-4 p.m...... Several authors with their books for sale will on the right side of the Center. Buy a book or just stop to chat. More information in this paper or go online: www.OracleCommunityCenter.org 9 a.m.-3 p.m...... Oracle Public Library Book Sale (at the Library). Includes famous $3-per-bag sale from 2-3 p.m. 9:30 a.m...... 2016 Spring Car Run starts at the Village Square. 10 a.m...... The 31st Annual Oracle Oaks Festival Parade. This year’s theme is “Wild West Days in Oracle.” The parade starts at St. Helen Roman Catholic Church and ends near the Oracle Post Office. Parade entries will be pre-judged before they march in the parade. Watch for their ribbons! Go to our website for parade map, application forms and more info: (www.OracleCommunityCenter.org) 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Various Arts & Crafts, Information & Food Booths located in the midway, in front of the OCC. 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Kids’ activities throughout the site, lots of kid’s games, cakewalk, beanbag toss, Firewise info and souvenirs. 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... OCC Photo Booth outside OCC, bring your cell phone, and take pics in front of the board! 11 a.m.-2 p.m...... Lunch inside OCC featuring burros with beans and rice. 11 a.m.-2 p.m...... Cakewalk inside OCC. Yum! 11 a.m.-6 p.m...... Musicians will be playing at the OCC outdoor main stage. See lineup on page 6 or check their bios on website.
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By John Hernandez temporarily. It is stated that Col. Cody has sold to W. O’Brien of Hereford, Texas, at With fear of the gallows attributed as spent $100,000 on the property since he $22 per head. These cattle were from the the cause, Charles Weeks, the black who The town of Oracle was founded in 1880. took hold of it. ranches of Col. Sturgis and J.M. Ronstadt, killed Ruperto Torres at Oracle, died in In 1912, the economic development of August 28, 1912 Weekly Journal- both of them located in Oracle. a cell in the Pinal County Jail, his terror Oracle and the surrounding areas relied Miner March 3, 1912 Tombstone Epitaph tormenting him until relieved by death. mainly on ranching, health-seekers, As a result of a duel fought about a week tourists and mining. William Fredrick ago with guns near Campo Bonito not far “Buffalo Bill” Cody was one of the more from Oracle, Jose Ramirez has been given famous prospectors who were seeking a hearing before the Justice of the Peace at their fortune in the hills surrounding Oracle and held to the grand jury of Pinal Oracle. His mine was the Campo Bonito County while Thomas Torres, who was camp. News of Buffalo Bill and his mine shot three times and clubbed with a gun, is were reported in the Arizona newspapers missing but is believed to be on the road to of the time as well as events in and around recovery, possibly in Tucson. Oracle. The following news about Oracle May 21, 1912 Bisbee Daily Review appeared in Arizona newspapers in 1912: It is planned in Tucson to expend the February 21, 1912 Bisbee Daily sum of $1,000 in improving the highway Review from that city to Oracle. Oracle which has For a visit to the Camp Bonito mine, near an elevation 2,000 feet more than Tucson, Oracle, Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Cody arrived is rapidly becoming the summer home in Tucson last week, accompanied by I.W. of Tucsonans who own automobiles, and Getchell, consulting engineer, and Mike good roads are an important factor to it. Russel, who is connected with “Buffalo June 23, 1912 Bill” in the management of his Wyoming Between 40 and 50 families have left enterprises. Lieutenant General Nelson Tucson within the last month for the cool A. Miles, who was to have accompanied heights of the Catalinas, according to H. the Cody’s to Tucson, was prevented from King of Hayhurst and King. The season at doing so by sudden indisposition, but Oracle has begun and 20 families are there hopes to join them within a few days and enjoying the cool breezes that sweep down visit the Campo Bonito mine. The party from the majestic peaks of the Catalina left for Oracle yesterday. range. May 5, 1912 Bisbee Daily Review June 2, 1912 Tombstone Epitaph The Campo Bonito mine at Oracle the The record price for one year old steers property of “Buffalo Bill Cody and D. B. was secured at Tucson by J.M. Ronstadt Dyer of Kansas City, has been closed down for a herd of 700 Arcade cattle which were The Mountain View Hotel in Oracle.
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Native Americans were the first people on Ecological conditions on the North disaster to all whom it touched and an the planet to ever get a glimpse of a horse. American continent quickly changed example of this failure was that out of 214 When the first Native Americans traversed as the Ice Aged ended and the glaciers horses who started with the expedition the exposed land bridge across the Bering retreated. The land bridge of Berengia only 22 returned. Some perished in Strait, they entered a land which had sank back beneath the ocean. A large battle, others from hardships, but many many strange and beautiful animals but no group of animals, specifically designed were stolen. The peoples of the southeast humans. These large mammals included for the Ice Age, went extinct in the hotter were the first mounted Native American mammoths, camels, saber toothed cats, drier conditions. This included the tiny warriors. and prehistoric horses; tiny ponies which prehistoric ponies of North America. In 1540, the Coronado expedition were no more than waist high. The same The ancestors of all modern horses came trudged into the American southwest from land bridge which allowed human beings from a Mongolian horse, migrants from Mexico City with an expedition which to migrate into North America also let North America. It is ironic that Native included over 1600 horses. The expedition the first horses enter into Asia. The Americans, the first chronicler, a man named Castaneda wrote horses encountered by these first Native people on the planet to that many of the horses disappeared in EVERY MAN’S MUSINGS Americans were simply too small to be glimpse horses, did the vast Texas plains. Most experts agree By Gary Every domesticated and ridden. not get a second that tribes of the southwest; Navajo, look for over Comanche, Pueblo, and Apache, started 15,000 years. riding horses by 1550. By 1664 there were Cheyenne with the introduction of the When Cortes written accounts of the people of the Plains horse. landed on the shores of coming to the southwest trade fairs with For many peoples, such as the Sioux Mexico with an expedition the intention of swapping captives and or Apache, the horse completely which included 16 horses; buffalo robes for horses. Their reputation revolutionized their culture. The Lakota these equines were the first on horseback and most importantly, chief American Horse told the legend of to put their hooves back on the their reputation as horse traders earned the Thunder Horse. The Thunder Horse North American mainland. The the Cheyenne the nickname of Painted was a huge and monstrous beast who De Soto expedition through the Pony People. The oral traditions of only came to earth during the fiercest American south in 1539 was a many different Indian nations credit the Continued on page 12
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Mockbees Chosen as Grand Marshals for Oaks Festival By John Hernandez Copper Area News
Tammy and Paul Mockbee have been selected as the Grand Marshals for the 2016 Oaks Festival. The Mockbees have lived in Oracle over 20 years and have been active in the community and helping others. Tammy has been riding and working with horses since she was four years old. She was working at the Miraval Spa and Resort as a riding instructor, horse trainer and a teacher of equestrian classes. At Miraval, she met Patty Green. This chance meeting and a mutual love of horses brought Tammy April 23, 2016 www.oraclecommunitycenter.org Oracle Oaks Festival | 11 and Patty Green together. An working weekends and after work to get will often see Paul and Tammy around overwhelming desire to help others the house built. Tammy said that “a huge Oracle, riding their horses or driving in a brought Little Hooves and Big Hearts into joy in their lives is spending time with our wagon, a pastime they have enjoyed since existence. LHBH is a therapy program six grandchildren, with the seventh one on their youth and share with their friends for mentally and physically handicapped the way in July.” and family. kids that uses miniature “therapy” horses. After moving to Oracle they spent several Congratulations, Paul and Tammy, on The program has provided therapy to years as 4-H leaders and are heavily being named the 2016 Oracle Oaks Festival children living with disabilities in the involved in their church. They have always Grand Marshals and thank you for your Tri-Community, at no charge. Standing made community outreach and helping “Big Hearts” in caring for others and waist-high to a grown up, miniature horses others an important part of their lives. You making your community a better place. are taken directly into nursing homes, children’s clinics and hospitals. Paul worked 24 years for Texas Instruments. He currently works for Ventana Medical and is the wrangler and maintenance manager for Little Hooves and Big Hearts. Paul was born in Missouri and moved from California to Tucson when he was 13. MARSHALS Tammy was born in Texas and grew up in Paul and Tammy Mockbee are this year’s what is now Continental Ranch in Marana, Grand Marshals for the Oracle Oaks Arizona. When they were teenagers, they Festival. met at Casas Adobes Church and their friendship grew from there. Tammy said it was through the love of her horses that “Paul melted my heart” and to this day they continue to enjoy (the horses). They were married four years later. Tammy was familiar with Oracle as a child. Tammy and her parents enjoyed themselves exploring Peppersauce Canyon and the Oracle area. When Tammy’s parents decided to retire to Oracle, Paul and Tammy chose to move to Oracle SMALL PACKAGES with their two baby daughters Diana and Bethany. Short in stature but big in heart, miniature horses have given hope to In 1987, they purchased some land and disabled children, seniors, others. began building a custom home by hand with Tammy’s father. It was a slow process, 12 | Oracle Oaks Festival www.oraclecommunitycenter.org April 23, 2016 MAGIC DOGS Continued from page 9 of lightning storms. While the tempest the sky with thick black clouds, tornadoes, arrival of Europeans were dogs so perhaps A sad example of the importance of the raged, the Thunder Horse would hunt huge hail stones, and a thousand spears it is only natural that the word for horse in horse in colonial North America took place buffalo, killing the shaggy beasts with a of lightning. The Thunder Horse dropped most native tongues includes the word dog in 1698. That is when the first public single blow of his massive hooves. down in a terrible avalanche of speed, somewhere. The Snake called the horse hanging took on the continent. Spanish There was one summer that an entire muscle, and fury. As the wind wailed with “Big Dog.” “Ponaka Nikita” or elk like governor Juan De Onate sentenced village was in danger of starvation. All roars of thunder, the magic equine drove a dog was the Blackfoot name. The Sioux two Pueblo men to be hung till dead as attempts to hunt game had ended in herd of buffalo right through the center of referred to the horse as “Shonka Wakon” punishment for the capital offense of futility. A drought had left the crops the village, the people were saved. or Medicine Dog. The Comanche showed horse thievery. Can you imagine being parched and withered. The drought was The only domesticated animals that their respect by naming the horse Dog sentenced for execution for the crime of ended with a terrible storm which filled Native Americans possessed before the God. trying to steal, tame, and ride God? W & W Physical Therapy Returning You to Your Active Lifestyle!
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The Oracle Historical Society’s (OHS) annual OHS also sponsors a food booth that is open fundraiser, the Spring Run Car Show, will be during the entire event, serving green chile, 30th Annual held Saturday, April 23, 2016. This is the 30th bean or combo burros, BBQ sandwiches and year of the event, which takes place during the drinks. All proceeds from the Spring Run and Oracle Oaks Festival. food booth benefit the Oracle Historical Society. ORACLE SPRING The Spring Run is open to all cars, motorcycles The parade and awards ceremony are free to and trucks, and participants must pre-register the public, so plan to come see the display of RUN CAR SHOW or come to the registration area on the classic, exotic and new vehicles on April 23. If morning of the event. Generous businesses and you would like to enter your vehicle in the car individuals donate funds to cover Spring Run show, entry forms are available at CarQuest in t-shirt printing and other expenses. The car Oracle, Dale’s Auto Body in San Manuel, or call parade runs through Oracle at 9:30 a.m. and 520-896-9609 (leave a message for Margaret). SEE THE CARS! ends at the Pinal County Courthouse parking You can also go online to www.cruisinarizona. lot where trophies are awarded at 2:30 p.m. com. Saturday, April 23 Parade at 9:30 am to the show at Pinal County Courthouse Park. Awards at 2:30pm. www.oraclehistoricalsociety.org • 520-896-9609
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He didn’t want to stop there, Good the dirty whiskey glass, in Tucson’ something told him “no”. from an outstretched hand. But the next town was far away, And realized with a sudden chill, 2015! forty miles or so. he had known this man. His horse was hot and tired, He had killed him years ago, they both could use a rest. shot him in the back. On they went and in a while, Dodge or Denver, could have been, came to Buzzard’s Rest. so many … he’d lost track.
The streets were deadly silent, Before the gunman could react, not the slightest sound. buckshot burned his chest. Except the anxious buzzards, He never reached his gun in time, circling … circling round. as it hung there with the rest.
He didn’t like the feeling, Again he rode the dusty trail, that ran down to his spine. and saw the sign that read; “Don’t be a fool”, he said aloud, “Three more miles to Buzzard’s Rest”, “it’s only in your mind.” three miles up ahead.
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Alice Ivers was born as a card sharp brought her a great marked cards. A man who was caught in Sudbury, England in deal of fame and fortune. Her sense using a marked deck could forfeit his 1851. Her family left of fashion and extravagant hairdos life. Poker Alice remembered some card England for the United became legendary including extravagant dealers whose fingers were “sandpapered Stated while Miss Alice shopping sprees in New York City. until the blood all but oozed through the was still a teenager. Although Poker Alice never confessed skin.” The family ended up to cheating it was certainly a standard Poker Alice claimed she never cheated in Colorado which was practice of the times. It was obvious although her profession required her to experiencing a mining she admired the men who had the stuff learn the tricks of the trade to protect boom. Mr. Ivers’ pretty young daughter to pull off such nefarious schemes. The herself. She swore that in all her years soon got married. Alice Ivers married cigar chomping, English lady had this to of gambling, “I handled a cold deck only a mining engineer named Duffield. say about a fellow professional gambler once, and that for a joke.” There was a Her stint as a housewife was a short who had practiced the tricks of the trade man in the Black Hills of the Dakotas EVERY MAN’S MUSINGS one because Duffield died in a mining so well that he soon had the deft skills who claimed that every time he lost it was accident before his wife had reached of a magician. “When he got into a game because the game was fixed and every By Gary Every her twenty-first birthday. The widow with the sharp eyes of professional time he won the game was fair. “It got on received a generous pension so it must gamblers upon him the courage necessary my nerves,” Alice recollected wryly. have been boredom and not money which to practice that crooked skill wilted and She decided to teach the gentleman to beat it.” first propelled her to gravitate towards he became only an honest, frightened, a lesson. True to Alice’s nickname the “I’ve got into a square game at last,” the the saloons. She took a fancy to playing exceedingly bad player, who lost his chips game was poker and the man started out man cried out. cards and soon earned the nickname almost as soon as they were set before riding a winning streak. “I never saw Then the English schoolteacher’s “Poker Alice”. Alice also acquired a liking him.” such luck,” Poker Alice said. “By actual daughter taught her student his lesson. for fat cigars and kept a .45 revolver with Poker Alice became adept at the tricks count he had 27 sets of threes without She used the cold deck to deal the her at the gambling tables. Alice refused of the trade herself; her soft gentle hands me ever winning a hand. If I held three gentleman a pat flush - five cards of one to gamble on Sundays. were much valued in the card sharp kings, then he would have three aces; and suit. Alice knew that the loudmouth Poker Alice followed the gold rush to business. Soft hands were better at if I drew the three highest cards in the would not stand still on such a hand. She Deadwood, South Dakota. Her skills reading the notches and bumps found on deck then he would have a small straight Continued on page 18
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Walking along the sandy wash I keep The San Pedro used to flow into the Gila my eyes open for jaguar tracks. There River before connecting to the mighty have been reports of tracks in nearby Colorado River and emptying into the Sea mountains. My eyes search the thickets of Cortez. Nowadays, the San Pedro dries of bushes, scanning for a trace of the up before it reaches the Gila River and hunting cats. There are only a few even if it didn’t - the Gila dries up before animals which reside in North America it reaches the Colorado and the Colorado which I have not seen in the wild and the is dammed up well before it reaches the jaguar, rare in Southern Arizona, is one of sea. them. My head swivels from side to side I wade across the water and head up as I walk along the sandy wash, watching the dry sandy wash, following the four for the shadow of a nocturnal feline, wheel drive tracks along what was once hoping to startle one with my footsteps. a wagon road. The location of this road This day, I walk along the sandy wash, was revealed to one of my friends by an searching the shadows for a jaguar, as old cowboy in a local bar. I walk along elusive as a ghost and perhaps more rare. the road to where the canyon begins to At least the walking is easy, this sandy narrow, walking in the shadows of an old wash used to be a wagon road. The road copper mine. As the rock walls begin to stretched from Mammoth, Arizona, west close in, steep cliffs of red and black rock to Casa Grande. This old wagon road rise above me. A raven calls and flies crosses Aravaipa Creek and then the San away. Pedro River and I have to remove my The old cowboy calls this Putnam shoes before wading across both of them. Wash but the maps refer to it as Camp This is a luxury really, a moment to savor Grant Wash. Camp Grant was a US by pausing beneath the shade of the trees. Cavalry post where the Aravaipa Apache
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another professional gambler who went by the name of D.A. did manage to close the saloon. Editor’s Note: Gary Every said while the story of Poker George Huckert. Prohibition now darkened the land but In the late 1920’s George Huckert had gone to meet his Alice has no real ties to Oracle, “When I lived in Oracle, the local law stayed away from a celebrity such as Poker maker. Alice retired to a small house in Sturgis and kept Rancho Bonito used to have an old wagon that had Alice. At least until Alice was charged with shooting one chomping cigars until her own death in 1930 when Alice been used in the movie “Poker Alice” starring Elizabeth of the Fort Meade soldiers. Although the jury acquitted Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert folded her last hand. Taylor.” Still a great story. Alice by saying that she acted in self defense, the irate
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Sherrie Todd-Beshore began writing for William “Flint” Carter is a local seasoned her high school newspaper then over three prospector and author of The Canyon of Gold, Buffalo decades published features and columns in both Bill Cody & the Legendary Iron Door Mine Treasure magazines and newspapers in Alberta, Colorado and collaborator of Treasures of the Santa Catalina and New York. In 2006, Sherrie left journalism Mountains. Flint has a large artifact and mineral to concentrate on her fiction ideas full time. display on the Catalinas and Buffalo Bill Cody at the To date she has published five adult suspense Oracle Inn Steakhouse in Oracle. He has spent the novels, a MG mystery series and the first book in past four decades prospecting and mining hundreds a YA fantasy-suspense trilogy. Her titles include: of claims in the Santa Catalina Mountains. Visit his Mountains and Shadows, (sequel) Shadows and website at emol.org/flintcarter. Light, 24 Sussex Drive, Behind the Sun, The Count Doug Hocking is an independent scholar who has completed of Baldpate; seven books in middle-grade mystery advanced studies in American history, ethnology and historical series, including Mosquito Creek, Black Eagle Pass, High Stakes Gamble, archaeology. A retired armored cavalry Dakota Mist, Toy Master, and Crow Child. Sherrie can be contacted via email officer, he grew up among the Jicarilla from her website: www.patchworkpublishing.com. Apache and paisanos of the Rio Arriba (Northern New Mexico). Doug writes both fiction and history and is working on a biography of Tom Jeffords. He is a member of the board of the Arizona Historical Society. He serves as Sheriff of the Bisbee Corral of the Westerners twice winning the Heads Up Award for best corral and is a Road Scholar for AZ Humanities. His books include Massacre at Point of Rocks, Mystery of Chaco Canyon and Devil on the Loose. Robert Zucker is the author of Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains, an extensive review of the history and legends of the Catalinas; Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades, a three-volume set of Tucson entertainers and musicians from the 1950s through the 1990s; and Traveling Show. Bob publishes the 20-year old Entertainment Magazine On Line website at EMOL.org and the Tucson Chronicles online at tucsonchronicles.com. Bob is a former journalism instructor at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. He is also representing local author Ron Quinn who published Searching for Arizona’s Buried Treasures and Mysterious Disappearances. Visit his website at robert-zucker.com