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Dr. Gary Turner Named Living Legend Honoree WESTERNERS INTERNATIONAL Donec Egestas Scelerisque dolor: Volume L - issue 3 - October 2017 January 2009 DR. GARY TURNER NAMED LIVING LEGEND HONOREE Westerners International is pleased to name Dr. Gary Turner its latest “Living Legend” honoree,. A native Californian, Gary has been an active member of the Los Angeles Corral of WI since 1979. He has held leadership positions throughout his entire length of membership. Gary is an impressive speaker with a knack for humor and has presented many history programs for his Corral and many other organizations. Gary has also published numerous articles for the Corral quarterly publication, the Branding Iron. He is a cowboy poet, limerick dispenser, and book publisher. Gary, a native of Venice, California has a BA in History from Whittier College and was awarded a Ph.D. in Education, from the Claremont Graduate School. Gary has been a life-long educator teaching Social Studies and English. He has also served as an administrator and completed his education career as Principal of Verdugo Hills High School. In his youth, Gary studied classical piano and was a star high school and college football player. Gary and his wife, Vicki, have been passionate supporters of local football and has had the Verdugo Hills football stadium, Turner Field and Stadium, named in their honor. Dr. Turner and his wife have traveled the world and have visited 15 foreign countries. Additional passions include grandkids, conservation, fishing and big game hunting -not to mention his vast knowledge of western history. Congratulations to Dr. Gary Turner, Westerners International’s newest “Living Legend.” Thanks to Brian Dervin Dillon, Ph.D., Sheriff of the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners for his nomination. Fellow Westerners: Greetings from the Home Ranch! I write you from the Texas Panhandle, where fall is coming in full swing -- the leaves are turning, Friday night football is back on the schedule, and the winter wheat is being planted in the local fields for cold-weather grazing. And speaking of weather, I'd like to send out all best wishes to any of our members who were affected by this season's devastating hurricanes and wildfires. Our hearts go out to our fellow Westerners, and we hope you have been able to keep yourselves out of harm's way. Our former – and very dedicated! – Chairman, Kent McInnis, told me in February that it would take a good year to get things humming in the new location, and he was right! Reports on our progress include the fact that our new email (after umpteen weeks of security checks and computer approvals) has been up and working well, so that we can effectively be in touch with all of you as needed. The office – Greetings with its many wonderful books and cherished pieces of art – is unpacked and we have our official from Westerners International stationery, not to mention our office supplies. Delinda King, our WI Secretary, keeps up on the weekly Chairman Dr. Bonney MacDonald work and is minding the fort with care. Gregg Bynum, our WI Treasurer, has done a marvelous job of keeping the financial records and has generously donated the funds for all legal and financial council as Inside this issue: we renewed our non-profit charter and relocate it to Texas. This has been a 6-month process and is days away from official completion. In the coming months, you will see more communication possibilities. We are putting a Facebook WI Mercantile pg. 2 page together and we want YOU to participate! I will notify all sheriffs and reps when it is up and Corral News pg. 3-4 running. We are hoping that you will all post your events, comments, and photos there for other corrals WI Board info. pg 5 to see. It’s a big West and a big country, here, and we would like all of us to know what other corrals Old Bent’s Fort by Jim Jennings and posses are up to as the events happen! Finally, we have our award ceremonies and panel at the Western History Association, Nov 1-4 in San pg. 6 Diego. We would just love it if you could attend our yearly gather at WHA. We hope you’ll come and WI Awards pg. 7-8 Publication News pg. 9 join us! Email us with questions if you would like more information. Bonney 1 Our new contact information: Westerners International Home Ranch - Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum - 2503 4th Ave - Canyon, TX 79015 - phone 806 651-5247 [email protected] page 2 Message from your “Ink slinger,” from the Kenneth Pirtle Westerner International Mercantile Greetings to all Westerners from Lapel pin with pin clasp ……………. $8.00 the Home Ranch in Amarillo and Canyon, Texas. As we all know, “Past Sheriff ” lapel pin …………….. $8.00 technology changes our world and Bolo Tie with leather band ………… $15.00 the way we operate, like it or not. Thus, you are now reading a Lucite paper weight ………………… $12.00 Buckskin Bulletin that has come shipping extra to you in a new way. A mailed copy has become too expensive for Westerners International, so If you would like to place an order or send this edition comes to you via the payment, contact internet and/or by way of email. I, for one, have attempted to stay up to date in this world Delinda King, WI Secretary, Westerners of technology. I taught college-level photography for International, Panhandle-Plains Historical many years and managed to “hang on” as new, fast computers and digital imagery impacted photography. I Museum, 2503 4th Ave., Canyon, TX 79015 lived through an age of traditional film processing and darkroom printing to Adobe Photoshop and digital printing. I learned these new ways and frankly enjoyed it You can also email her at all immensely. I worked in an educational setting where [email protected] or call the office at we embraced technology and faculty and staff were offered (encouraged) free training in the basics of email, 806-651-5247 Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, not to mention that I had to teach Photoshop. Keeping up to date and ahead of today’s tech-savvy youth was challenging. I coming soon: Western Belt buckles with found it all to be fun and very invigorating. And my WI logo! students kept me on my toes! So here we are, passionate about the past and western history yet caught up in today’s latest technology. Thus, we now deliver the BB via the internet or email. I continue to read a home-delivered copy of my local newspaper. Most of the people I interact with read their news, local and otherwise, by way of the computer. I much prefer the feel of newsprint in my hands. I worry that some Westerners have that same preference. If that’s the case, please utilize your home technology and print yourself a full-color copy of the Buckskin Bulletin! If you have any suggestions or comments feel free to email me at [email protected]. Westerners International is pleased that the Home Ranch is located in the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas. PPHM is on the campus of West Texas A&M University and enjoys many interactions with University students and scholars in various studies of local, regional and national history. Dr. Alex Hunt, Professor in the English, Philosophy and Modern Languages Department at WTAMU, serves as the Director of the Center For the Study of the American West (CSAW) which is also inside the Museum facility. CSAW hosts several lectures and scholarly events each year and is pleased to announce the Nall Lecture, BRIAN DELAY, “THE TEXAS GUN FRONTIER AND THE TRAVAILS OF MEXICAN HISTORY” Date: Oct 19, 2017 Time: 7:00 PM Hazlewood Lecture Hall Westerners, International, 2503 Fourth Avenue, Canyon, Texas, 79015 - [email protected] phone 806 651-5247 - http://westerners-international.org # page 3 CORRAL NEWS The Buckskin Bulletin is pleased to receive news and information from all of our active Westerner International Corrals. Your WI Inkslinger will strive to post most if not all news information that we receive. Please send your Corral news and photographs to [email protected] or to [email protected]. Scottsdale, AZ -by Doug Hocking On May 20, 2017, Trail Boss Bob Spahle led the Cochise County Corral of the Westerners to the Amerind Museum in Texas Canyon. Members of Tucson’s Adobe Corral and Green Valley’s La Frontera joined the Corral there. Texas Canyon gets its name from the Adams Family who moved there in the 1890s. Being numerous and from Texas, folks started calling the area around their ranches Texas Canyon. For a while in the 1930s, their ranch was home to the Sky Rock Pavilion, a dance hall perched atop a giant boulder, used during their annual rodeo. The boulder is visible from the Interstate if you know where to look. Many of them are buried at the Texas Canyon Pioneer Cemetery along with Rex Allen’s parents. In the 1920s, archaeology enthusiast, William Shirley Fulton, bought a ranch from the Adams Family and erected a Spanish Doug Hocking Colonial-style mansion. While Shirley, as he was known, collected Indian art and artifacts, his wife bred some of the finest quarter horses in the country. In the 1950s, Fulton began funding archaeologist Charles di Peso, who excavated sites such as Terrenate de Santa Cruz, Casa Grande (Paquime), and many Mimbres sites. Upon his death, Fulton endowed a museum and institute devoted to Southwest archaeology. Docent Steve D. led us on a tour of the multistoried research library, the museum of Native American art, and the museum of Native American artifacts and archaeology.
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