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SURVEY RESULTS IN As some of you have been them pulled in closer!! We pretty RESULTS aware, we have been running a sur- much have decided that the pistol tar- 1. Satisfied vey at the range and on-line regard- gets will be placed at 7 yards. We with target ing some of our operations. This be- could have a liability issue with them placement. ing with the aim of giving the shoot- if they are closer since the SASS YES 89 — NO 12 ers more bang for their buck. The Shooters Handbook has suggested tar- results are shown below. It should get distances in it. We don’t have a 2. Start Earlier? YES 34 — NO 67 be pointed out that only about 17.5% clear legal definition how the words of our total membership or 101 “suggested” may hold up in court in 3. Happy with Shoot and Scoot members responded to the survey. A the event of an accident. Back to the at 2nd Sat. Shoot? not real good showing to say the survey, you will see that within each YES 78 — NO 16 least. In my opinion, not enough question, folks failed to answer all of 4. Serve food on the run at the response to make any serious them, either because they didn’t care 2nd Sat. Shoot? changes to our operations. The com- or had no opinion. Anyhow the re- YES 48 — NO 40 ments section basically said “keep sponse was marginal to the survey at doing what you are doing with the best because I know that more than 5. Change 2nd Sat. shoot to 8 matches”. An interesting point 101 shooters are regulars at our events. stages? YES 26 — NO 70 worth noting is that about the ques- Anyhow we will just keep “truck’in tion “Satisfied with Target Place- along” doing what we think the shoot- 6. If 2nd Sat shoot 8 stages, ment”, 12 person’s responded NO, 9 ers want. Please feel free to let us stop for lunch? of which think the targets are too know if you would like to see changes, YES 26 — NO 25 close. The other 3 shooters want if it makes sense we’ll probably do it. Bojack

HARVEY LOGAN town quickly. They headed for Hole in the Wall, WY, AKA “KID CURRY” a place then already known as an outlaw hideout. They went there and met up with George Currie. Kid Curry was born Harvey had been called Kid in Texas, so when Harvey Alexander Logan in he and George swapped names Kid Curry was born. Tama County, Richland One story says Kid stole a herd of mavericks and took Township, in 1867. them to . He and his brother, George, did While enroute to his Aunt take a stolen herd to the Tongue River at Otter Creek Lee's house in Dodson, Mis- . They met the outlaw middleman Milton F. souri, in 1876 his mother "Dad" Marsh at the Circle Bar spring roundup head- Eliza Jane died. In late 1883, quarters on Crooked Creek. There he and his brother he and his older brother were hired by Johnnie Lee for the Judith Basin 1884 Henry left Dodson to break horses in Texas. They Fall Roundup. Kid then worked for the Circle C and hired on with a trailherd bound for Pueblo, CO. Circle Diamond outfit of Robert Coburn at Flat Wil- They traveled up the Cimmaron River into New low Creek. Mexico and arrived in Pueblo by mid summer. They Then came the event that would change his got into a minor saloon brawl there, so had to leave (Continued on Page 2) (Continued from Page 1) ranch of Frank Lamb of Sand Gulch, CO. life forever. Up to that point, Kid had been a Lamb befriended the Kid who was using the pretty decent sort, but was forced into a life of name Harv Wright at the time. Lamb also crime after his self defense killing of Powell later befriended and the Sun- "Pike" Landusky. Kid, Henry, and friend Jim dance Kid. Near the Lamb ranch is where the Thornhill had a ranch at Rock Creek in Couteau Pinkertons lost the Kid's trail after the Wil- County, Montana. Pike Landusky was a prospec- cox, WY . In 1897 at Belle tor that had made a rich strike. A boom started Fourche, SD, Harvey was captured with Sun- near the Curry's ranch. The town was named dance and Walt Putney after a bank robbery. Landusky and Pike was elected sheriff. Pike had Later Kid and Sundance broke out of jail on a reputation for being a and being October 31, 1897. sheriff fed his ego. One night Kid was a little In 1902, Kid got caught in a pool drunk and Pike decided to flex his muscles and room in Knoxville, TN while evading. A arrest Kid. He was derisive and even insulted billy club was broken over his head leaving a Kid's dead mother. This made Kid mad and he 3 inch scar on his lower head and upper promised Landusky a beating when he got free. neck. On the Knoxville report it said there Another story says the dispute started when Kid were scars on his leg, right wrist, left fore- was courting one of Pike's daughters, Elfia. An- arm, buckshot scars on back, knife scar, teeth other man had got her pregnant. Her father missing from upper and lower jaws, and a slapped her around causing a miscarriage. Pike wrist scar from a gunshot wound. The buck- filed false assault charges against Kid. A.S. shot was from the Shankersville, WY whore- Lohman and Frank Plunkett put up the $500 house robbery. The gunshot wound he ac- bond. The result was a false fine of $50 against quired during the South Dakota holdup. He Kid. None of the charges were ever dropped. escaped from the Knoxville jail by the help At any rate, Kid eventually met up with of Jim Thornhill and Red Jordon. He went to Landusky. An altercation ensued and Landusky his sister Allie's in Minnesota and, disguised drew his gun. Kid had been unarmed, but as a hobo, jumped on a freight train to Wag- Thornhill quickly gave Kid his gun. Landusky ner, MT. At Wagner he walked to his hideout fired first but missed; Kid killed him in self- in Thornhill Buttes where he found supplies defense on December 27, 1894. The story was as prearranged. verified by 11 witnesses at the inquest. But a He owed Thornhill $1,000 for the crooked judge named Debois was on the stand, Knoxville breakout. So Kid, George and Kid didn't trust him. So he hit the trail and Kilpatrick, and Charlie Howland made plans became a fugitive from justice. for the Parachute, CO train robbery that had First he went back to Hole in the Wall, been planned earlier by Curry, Butch WY. An incident that just made matters worse Cassidy, and the . His choice was when he went to Lillian Lohman wife of the of partners were limited. Butch and Sun- man who had posted his bail. She had a new dance were in south America by then. The buggy and matching team of horses that he had Wild Bunch was disbanded. Other possibili- sold to Kid. She didn't know that Kid and her ties were unavailable. He got George from husband made the deal. So when he took two the Lamb ranch. Kid, George, and Charlie horses and left more than they were worth with a worked the railroad as hands for a week note to her about where she could find the while learning the country and train sched- money, the story got told that he had stolen the ules. But the train carrying the money failed horses. to stop to water for the upcoming grade. In 1896 he and his cousin Bob went to Not wanting to be beat out of the Cototaxi, CO, to get the McCoy Boys to join money, he, George, and Charlie decided to them in a train robbery. While there, Kid and hit the next train. They got $50 and a small Bob hired on as horse breakers at the FL Bar (Continued on Page 5)

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as Tap Duncan. This resulted in the story that (Continued from Page 2) the kid made it to South America. George and posse out after them. They eluded the posse Charlie later affirmed the Kid's death. They for several days, but the posse finally caught never paid the Parachute posse their $100 re- up to them, thinking them possible sheep rus- ward for the Curry/Duncan body either. tlers. A shootout took place and more than 200 shots were exchanged. Kid was shot in the arm and both lungs, with the bullet leaving through his other arm. Kid new it was his last moments, so held off the posse so George and Charlie could get away. Then he took his own life with his Colt .45 on June 9, 1904. The posse wasn't sure whose body they had. Tap Duncan was in Green River UT, so they thought it might be him. The body was taken to Glenwood Springs, CO where the coroner looked at it. Kid's coat was the same label as the coat he had worn when captured in Knox- ville. The marks and scars were the same as noted by the Knoxville doctor's report. Pinkerton detective Lowell Spence brought a doctor to examine the body thought to be the Kid. They were sure it was Curry. But since the railroad did not want to pay the $30,000 reward the body has been labeled to this day If you take lift your heart? Does singing give an outlet to your joy- the word “sin” and ous spirit? Singing can plain out lead you to the Lord. add a “g” to it you Singing to God is the best kind of singing because it is get the word full of worship that lifts you out of yourself and plumb “sing.” And sing is into the lap of our Father, and that is a wonderful place to this month’s Bible be. If you’re all tongue-tied, the words of a hymn can word. Now some of you wags will say, “Sin Killer, we help you express it right. These are good reasons for have heard you sing and your singing is a sin!” No fight singing, but let me give you another. Singing to God can from me on that one, my singing drives all the coyotes get you out of a tight. Seems old Apostle Paul was deep out of the country, but the Good Book is high on war- in the calaboose one night, put there by the Roman sheriff bling. Something good happens to the Bible people and after the sheriff had Paul and his sidekick, Silas, bull- they sing praises to God about it. Moses and all his folks whipped and placed in irons. Well, there they were at sang a hit parade when God got them through the Red midnight as poor a sight as could be, and they began to Sea escaping Egypt. The whole book of Psalms is the sing praises to God. The other jailbirds listened in and first hymnbook. King David was always and forever we can only guess what they thought, probably along the singing in them Psalms to make you forget yer troubles. lines as these two critters were addlepated in their think When the Old Testament hombres went up to Temple it boxes. But them songs went right up to God’s ears, and was always to the accompaniment of lively words set to God must have seen no addlepation but sheer guts. God catchy tunes. And in those self-same Psalms is over and sent an earthquake to rattle that hoosegow, throw open over the command to sing a “new” song. That’s ‘cuz the irons, and swing wide all the doors. In all the excite- God is always doing a new thing in our lives and there is ment Paul kept the prisoners together. The sheriff was so always something new to praise God for. And then in flabbergasted at their faith he gave his life to Christ right the New Testament the Apostle Paul encourages us to then and there and set the whole kit and keboodle free. sing “…psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs, singing (Acts 16) So we see singing to God can be a powerful with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” The Book of thing. Even if you think you have the voice of a gut- Revelation shows us the heavenly realm where the citi- gored buffalo stopping a freight train, your singing can zens thereof are particularly fond of singing the nap off rattle the cages that need rattled, and you just might get the hymnal. Why, intarnation, is God trying to get us to out of trouble. So sing a hymn and go careful. bellow our lungs out in song? Well, does singing a song

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