25TH ANNIVERSARY END of TRAIL by Billy Dixon, SASS Life/Regulator #196
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MercantileEXCITINGSee section our NovemberNovember 2001 2001 CowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicle(starting on PagepagePage 90)11 The Cowboy Chronicle~. The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 19 No. 8 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. August 2006 25TH ANNIVERSARY END of TRAIL By Billy Dixon, SASS Life/Regulator #196 oppy met us at the gate and See HIGHLIGHTS starting on 72 Roy and Dale sang “Happy H Trails to You” as we depart- ed. In between, we celebrated the 25th Anniversary END of TRAIL. This END of TRAIL was more like a wedding anniversary than the recog- nition of a successful business ven- ture. The Single Action Shooting Society is a bonding between a group of people we know as the Wild Bunch and more than 71,000 individuals from all parts of the world and all walks of life. SASS has been around for awhile now, and I’ve been a Life Member and Regulator long enough to have seen some things change while other things stay the same. No one walks alone at END of TOP GUN WINNERS TRAIL. SASS is more a family, and The reigning champions and Top less a business or even a sport. Guns continue to be Lead Dispencer SASS is a way of life. We treasure END of TRAIL was “all new” again this year. The June date allowed many and Holy Terror. These two have SASS for the same reasons we more families to attend than in the past, and the recent construction has demonstrated shooting speed, enjoyed watching Hopalong, the begun to put a new face on the event. The metal roofed “food fly” provides a discipline, and consistency for a Durango Kid, and Poncho and Cisco, large, permanent respite from the elements, and the two new sutler buildings number of years now … they are both and Roy and Dale when we were provided a controlled environment for the merchants while their shaded on their way to achieving records kids. It isn’t just the costumes or the porches proved to be a wonderful place to relax with friends. that are likely to stand for a very aliases or the attitudes. The great And, there’s more to come! long time. Very well done, indeed. majority of SASS members will not that our club, our members, and our after END of TRAIL was moved to betray the real spirit of the game game have grown way beyond any- the new June date, we arrived in while a very few must win or they thing that Harper Creigh and Boyd Albuquerque on Wednesday after- buildings erected by vendors. The don’t have a good day. The differ- Davis intended 25 years ago when noon and stepped out of the truck to huge Founders Hall main tent faced ence at this 25th Anniversary END they started this organization. 98 degrees and a sun that burned in a large covered stage called Tijeras of TRAIL is the Wild Bunch, as well Their ideas became dreams and the sky like a Lucifer’s match struck Corral and marks the center of town. as those of us who appreciate the their members’ family. on old denim. Tijeras Corral is flanked on either real value of SASS, have all realized I shot the last END of TRAIL at We had stopped momentarily at side by buildings housing Tonto Rim Coto and recall my sore feet from the the top of the hill overlooking the Trading Co, SASS Mercantile, Tay- SASS Cowboy Chronicle new road base. Then I shot the first range that sits in a green canyon lor’s and Co, Cimarron, Brownells, year at Rahaauge’s, affectionately between two juniper-covered hills. A and Ruger. Then there were no less known as the year of the flies and couple hundred campers filled one than 80 more vendors of fine goods, blue smoke plumes from the berms. lot, hundreds more cars and pickups period clothing, brass, powder, and In This Issue I shot the first year at Founder’s began to fill the shooter’s parking other cowdude items too numerous to Ranch when the cold wind puffed up area. Then there was Main Street mention. Holy smoke, this could be TAYLOR’S’73 WINCHESTER 60 under our dusters and the weather lined with rows and rows of tents, TRAPPER RIFLE the Single Action Shopping Society! by Tuolumne Lawman turned from rain to snow. 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