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MercantileEXCITINGSee section our NovemberNovemberNovember 2001 2001 2001 CowboyCowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicleChronicle(starting on PagepagePagePage 90) 111 The Cowboy Chronicle~ The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 21 No. 10 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. October 2008 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES – 2008 q By Tex, SASS #4 q ach year the Hall of Fame tee deliberates its selections, we committee searches for find there are many who are E the most deserving indi- deserving, far more than can be viduals and organizations accommodated in a single year. that have had a lasting impact of The committee’s list continues to the sport of Cowboy Action grow and evolve, and this year’s Shooting™. Long-term support list is particularly pleasing, con- for the game we play, excellence sisting of a long time, influential in competition, those who have Cowboy Action vendor, some top established significant regional shooters, those who have helped activities, and even those who shape Cowboy Action as we have invented many of the prac- know it today, and long-term tices, procedures, and sayings we supporters of our sport. SASS is all take for granted today are very proud of the five inductees candidates. And, as the commit- highlighted below. COUNTRY FIRST REGISTER BOB and THE DURANGO TO BECKY MUNDEN KID VOTE SASS Cowboy Chronicle In This Issue BLACK JACK TAYLOR’S & COMPANY McGINNIS Keeping the Legend Alive SAN QUINTON 64 WINCHESTER ‘76 REPRODUCTION See INDUCTEES Bios on pages 71, 72, 73 by Blackthorne Billy 74 END OF TRAIL MOUNTED CHAMPIONSHIP by Wildcat Kate C h C 82 8TH ANNUAL REVENGE r o OF MONTEZUMA o w by Haycamp n b i o 23255 La Palma Avenue 84 UTAH BLACKPOWDER c y Yorba Linda, California 92887 CHAMPIONSHIP l by Cowboy Murder’n Maude e www.sassnet.com Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle October 2008 October 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 3 Page 4 Cowboy Chronicle October 2008 October 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CCONTENTSONTENTS Chronicle 1 ON THE COVER Hall Of Fame Inductees - 2008 . 6 FROM THE EDITOR Voting, Politics, And Costumes (Again!) . Editorial Staff NEWS Harvest Fair . SASS Scholarship Foundation Applications Available Nov. 1st . Tex 8-22 Editor-in-Chief 16 CAT’S CORNER Dressing For The 1876 Centennial Ball . Cat Ballou Editor 18 COYOTE DROPPINGS Territorial Governors (More Important Than Ever) . Coyote Calhoun Managing Editor & Marketing Director 24-26 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . Adobe Illustrator 27 POLITICAL My Idea Of A Campaign Speech . Layout & Design Mac Daddy 30-46 ARTICLES Culinary Delights On The Outlaw Trail . El Paso’s Texas Rangers . Graphic Design Donna Oakley 51-63 GUNS & GEAR Loading Long Range Blackpowder . Totin’ Fer Townies . Advertising Administrator Contributing Writers 54-56 SASS CONVENTION Sign Up Today! . Blackthorne Billy, Bob Boze Bell, Buckskin Dave, Buckskin Lily, Capgun Kid, Capt. George Baylor, 64 REVIEWS-PRODUCTS The New 1876 Winchester Reproduction Rifle . Col. Dan, Cree Vicar Dave, Duke Morrison, Grey Fox, Holy Terror, Inspector, Jersey Kid, 66 PROFILES Catfish Kid . Colorado Half Breed . Chevelon Kid . Joe Fasthorse Harrill, Justice Lily Kate, Lucky Bill Thorington, M. Lou Findley, Common Valor . Mad Mountain Mike, Madd Mike, Oracle, 67 REVIEWS BOOKS Purdy Gear, Seven Ladders, Sila McFee, Three Fingers Tequila, 68, 69 TRAIL MARKER To Be Remembered . Tuolumne Lawman, Whooper Crane The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The 70, 74 MOUNTED The Capgun Kid Rides...Without Getting Himself Killed Doing It (Pt.3) Single Action Shooting Society. For adver- tising information and rates, administrative and editorial offices contact: 76, 77 HISTORY Tragic Powwow . Little Known Famous People . Chronicle Administrator 23255 La Palma Avenue What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . Yorba Linda, California 92887 80-85 ON THE RANGE 714-694-1800 FAX: 714-694-1813 86-89 CLUB REPORTS Gold Rush Days . Lincoln County Regulators Hold 1st Match email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is 90-96 MERCANTILE Nice SASS Collectibles . published Monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 23255 La Palma Avenue, Yorba Linda, California 92887. Periodicals 97- CLASSIFIED Postage is Paid at ANAHEIM, CA and addi- tional mailing offices (USPS #020-591). POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 100 ADVERTISERS INDEX The Cowboy Chronicle, 23255 La Palma Avenue, Yorba Linda, California 92887. 107 SASS NEW MEMBER APPLICATION DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting Society does not guarantee, warranty or Albuquerque cow- SASS® Trademarks endorse any product or service advertised in this newspaper. The publisher also does boys pool their SASS®, Single Action Shooting Society®, resources and take not guarantee the safety or effectiveness END of TRAIL®, EOT®, of any product or service illustrated. The second place in TM distribution of some products/services may the 2008 New The Cowboy Chronicle , TM be illegal in some areas, and we do not Mexico State Fair Cowboy Action Shooting , assume responsibility thereof. State and TM Parade! Buffalo CAS , local laws must be investigated by the pur- Range Riders, The World Championship of chaser prior to purchase or use or prod- High Desert Cowboy Action ShootingTM, ucts/services. Drifters, and the Bow-legged Cowboy Design, and the WARNING: Neither the author nor The Rio Grande Rocking Horse Design Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi- bility for accidents or differing results Renegades rode are all trademarks of the float to victory! obtained using reloading data. Variation Tex thought all the The Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. in handloading techniques, compo- nents, and firearms will make results folks on the parade route were waving at him, but youngsters Pixie Powder, Any use or reproduction of these marks without the express written permission vary. Have a competent gunsmith check SASS #67519 (center), and Cowboy Clay, SASS #67520 (top), were riding your firearms before firing. on his side of the wagon and drawing all the attention. of SASS is strictly prohibited. Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle October 2008 VOTING, POLITICS, AND COSTUMES (AGAIN!) By Tex, SASS #4 It’s easy to imagine an environment Second Amendment proponents in to relax. Is the game perfect? No. Is where one cannot keep their our national administration, the bat- the game static? No. The game we firearms at home, load or purchase tle will ultimately be lost. Hopefully, play today is nothing like the game Tex, SASS #4 as much ammunition as one pleases, the vote has gone well … we played 27 years ago at the first ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ practice when one chooses, and com- Politics END of TRAIL. Have the changes petes in matches of one’s choice. The Cowboy Chronicle has been crit- been good? Many have, but not all. Most parts of the world have restric- icized several times for printing any- There are some 80,000 SASS Voting tions such as these, and the United thing “political.” The argument is members and a few hundred y the time you get this issue of Nations appears heading in this this is our fantasy sport, it’s an Territorial Governors. The Gover- BThe Cowboy Chronicle, the national direction as well. Whether the moti- escape from our everyday realities, nors help advocate and administer elections will be over. Hopefully all vation to substantially restrict and one shouldn’t have to read about change, and change affects all the Cowboy Action Shooters did the firearm use is truly rooted in the politics in our journal … especially, if members. We’re talking about affect- right thing and voted … and got concept, this is a modern world with you disagree with the positions ing thousands of people … and deal- their friends to do the same. millions of sophisticated, civilized taken! One wants only “good” news ing with people is politics. Politics is Hopefully we’ll have a national people, and there is simply no place … “happy” news. trying to figure out what’s best for administration that is both sympa- for firearms among the general pop- First of all, this isn’t a “Polly- our game, figuring out how to get oth- thetic and supportive of our Second ulace, or whether it’s actually a cyn- Anna” world, and this isn’t a “Polly- ers to embrace the “good” ideas, and Amendment rights … the right to ical move to disarm everyone, mak- Anna” game. This is a good game … figuring out how to make the new use firearms for self-defense, hunt- ing them subservient to authority, it’s fun, it’s family oriented, it’s an ideas work. Politics is a fact of life in ing, and recreational activities, both civil and criminal, is a moot escape from our everyday 21st every organization and in our daily including Cowboy Action Shooting™. point. Without strong, supportive Century world, and it’s what we do (Continued on page 100) October 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 7 Page 8 Cowboy Chronicle October 2008 WWHA CONVENTION WAS A BIG SUCCESS! By Seven Ladders, SASS #75152 he first annual convention of the Cool, Bob Alexander, Larry Ball, Bill TWWHA, the Wild West History O’Neal, and many others. Association, was a big success! Held The scheduled events included a at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in down- wonderful bus tour of the Gilcrease town Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 15-19, Museum and 101 Ranch collection 2008, the exciting event attracted and stimulating breakout sessions in historians, researchers, collectors, the evenings. In addition to an screenwriters, and many others in awards luncheon, vendors’ tables, the history of the Old West. Speakers auction, and reception, the event included Robert K. DeArment, Bob concluded with a spectacular Ernst, Robert McCubbin, Chuck Saturday evening banquet and peri- Parsons, Nancy Samuelson, Paul od costume competition. ADVERTISING INFORMATION ASK FOR ~ DONNA ~ (EXT.