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. 20 No. 5 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. May 2007 WINTER RANGE 2007 By Parson Swede, SASS, #32104 Photos by Mr. Quigley Photography Team

hoenix, AZ – On March 7th HIGHLIGHTS on pages 72 & 73 as the first vestiges of light P began to spread over the val- winner received a new ‘97-clone shot- ley of the sun and the Bradshaw gun via a generous donation by Pearl Mountains just to the north, Winter Hart, with an action job by Old Range 2007 began to come to life. Gun Repair, aka Squibber. Over 570 wranglers, cowboys both The Plainsman event and all of classic and modern, , cow- the long-range events rounded out girls, B-movie enthusiasts, young the day’s activities. Nearly everyone and old all gathered from 44 differ- turned in early that night to rest up ent states, Australia, Europe, and from their travels and to be ready for Canada for the 16th annual incarna- the intense competition the next tion of this classic Cowboy Action morning would bring. Shooting™ match. The year that Thursday morning dawned had gone into planning the annual bright and clear, promising tempera- event was past, and now it was time tures in the mid to high 80’s; in other to move into the competition that words, a perfect day for shooting. All would decide the best of the best at of the early wave shooters gathered the SASS National Championship of in the huge main tent at 7AM for the Cowboy Action Shooting™. The traditional opening ceremonies and weather in Phoenix was perfect with one of the most unusual safety meet- sunshine and only a few clouds plus ings any of us had ever seen. a little wind; all right, a whole lot of Combining modern technology and wind on Sunday morning, but it was good ol’ fashioned common sense lib- short lived and soon forgotten. erally seasoned with great humor, a The promises of intense competi- video presented all of the safety rules tion, great friendships, and a rollick- fashioned after an airline safety ing good time were realized by one presentation. It was terribly creative and all who attended this year’s truly and very, very funny. Brighton Belle, outstanding match. Wednesday EZ Shot, and a cast of actual charac- morning began the warm-up stages ters produced this innovative presen- that helped get the kinks out of many tation to hoots and hollers of a body and gun. This year there were approval all around. Can’t wait to three waves of shooters, a few hun- see what they do next year. dred in all that shot four “Winter Promptly at 8AM shooters were Could it get any better? The SASS National Championship, Winter Range, released on the range to begin the was blessed with near idyllic weather throughout the competition, next three days of intense competi- SASS Cowboy Chronicle great props, loads of new targets sized and placed where they were shootable if one used their front sight, and a full complement of sutlers. tion across 12 truly remarkable Even the evening entertainment was unique. Tupelo Flash, who always (Continued on page 15) In This Issue looks great, is shown here preparing to defend the on-site Indian village. See more Winter Range 62 EMF’S 1872 COLT Range type stages.” The shotgun included flying clays and a can of blast really was a blast with a very Coke, as well as a balloon. You had to Costumes by Tuolumne Lawman on page 57 challenging shotgun stage that be there to really understand it. The 63 CIMARRON’S HENRY MILITARY RIFLE by Tuolumne Lawman 74 ALASKA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP C h C by Darlin’ Caroline r o o w 76 STATE n b HAMPIONSHIP C i o by Shenandoah 23255 La Palma Avenue c y Yorba Linda, California 92887 78 WESTMATCH l e www.sassnet.com by Elder Kate Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

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6 FROM THE EDITOR Submitting Material To The Cowboy Chronicle . . . Editorial Staff 8 FROM THE DESK OF THE GENERAL Live and Let Live! . . . Tex Editor-in-Chief 10-22 NRA Honors Cowgirl . . . Ladies Tea & Resting Room Débuts At Founders Ranch . . . Cat Ballou NEWS Editor Time To Ready Your Costumes For The 26th END of TRAIL . . . Chiz 16 CAT’S CORNER Managing Editor Advertising Director 18 CHIZ BIZ What’s Goin’ On . . . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 26 POLITICAL Climate Change And Extinction Are Nature’s Ways . . . Mac Daddy Graphic Design 27 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Donna Oakley Advertising Administrator 28-37 ARTICLES William F. “” Cody . . . Silver Screen Saloon Show . . . Contributing Writers Bob Boze Bell, Capt. George Baylor, Cinnamon Lucy, Col. Dan, 38-51 GUNS & GEAR Breaks Out! . . . Cowboy Trap Gun . . . Timely Fashion Cree Vicar Dave, Ellsworth T. Kincaid, Holy Terror, Winter Range SASS National Mounted Shooting Championship . . . Ioway, Joe Fasthorse Harrill, 58 MOUNTED Juaquin Malone, Madd Mike, Mr. Quigley, Nubbins Colt, 60 HISTORY This Month In History . . . Little Known Famous People . . . Purdy Gear, Sierrita Slim, Swift Montana Smith, Tuolumne Lawman TM 61 REVIEWS-BOOKS Gun Digest . . . Hollywood And The O.K. Corral . . . The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The , Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting 62, 63 REVIEWS-PRODUCTS EMF’s 1872 Open Top In .45 Colt! . . . Society. For advertising information and rates, administrative and editorial offices contact: 68, 69 TRAIL MARKER Chronicle Administrator 23255 La Palma Avenue ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . . Yorba Linda, California 92887 74- 714-694-1800 FAX: 714-694-1813 68, 69 END of TRAIL 2007 . . . email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com PROFILES Yosemite Valley Sam, SASS #73791 . . . The Shooter’s Persona . . . The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) 71- is published Monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 23255 La Palma 90-96 MERCANTILE Nice SASS Collectibles . . . Avenue, Yorba Linda, California 92887. Periodicals Postage is Paid at ANAHEIM, CA and additional mailing offices (USPS 97- CLASSIFIED #020-591). POSTMASTER: Send ad- dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle, 23255 La Palma Avenue, Yorba Linda, 101- SHOOTING SCHEDULES (MONTHLY)-(ANNUAL) California 92887. DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting Society does not guarantee, 107 SASS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION warranty or endorse any product or service advertised in this newspaper. SASS does business at the National Championships—Winter Range. SASS® Trademarks The publisher also does not guarantee Coyote Calhoun, The Judge, and Hipshot listen as another cowboy the safety or effectiveness of any prod- SASS®, Single Action Shooting Society®, explains what he’s thinking and what SASS ought to be thinking! uct or service illustrated. The distribution END of TRAIL®, EOT®, of some products/services may be ille- The SASS booth is a TM gal in some areas, and we do not great place to visit The Cowboy Chronicle , TM assume responsibility thereof. State and with Headquarters Cowboy Action Shooting , local laws must be investigated by the staff and discuss CASTM, purchaser prior to purchase or use or current SASS issues. The World Championship of products/services. TM Topics of one sort or Cowboy Action Shooting , WARNING: Neither the author nor The another filled the air Bow-legged Cowboy Design, and the Cowboy Chronicle can accept any as a near-continuous Rocking Horse Design responsibility for accidents or diffe- ring results obtained using reloading stream of cowboys and are all trademarks of girls dropped by. data. Variation in handloading tech- Most of the discussions The Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. niques, components, and firearms were quite lively … the Any use or reproduction of these marks will make results vary. Have a compe- without the express written permission tent gunsmith check your firearms SASS booth was an before firing. exciting place to be! of SASS is strictly prohibited. Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

SUBMITTING MATERIAL TO The Cowboy Chronicle By Tex, SASS #4

rect English and sometimes helping Text is clean (no streaks, dropouts, mark focus the writer’s words to better The easiest way to submit text is throughs, or hand annotations, and explain the subject being addressed. via e-mail (address to Donna@sass the like), but this represents addition- Although the endeavor is largely a net.com or [email protected] atten- al processing steps and slows down labor of love, it is much like going to tion “Tex”). Embed the text in the the production process. school … the homework just never body of the e-mail message and There are still a few souls that Tex, SASS #4 ends. Attending matches, going on attach a Microsoft Word file of the don’t use computers and can only ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ vacation, taking on special projects … text to the message as well. This way, submit handwritten material. These no matter what goes on in one’s life, there are two chances of being able to letters and submittals will be read, irtually everything printed in the next issue is always only days retrieve the text. The attached word but only in the most rare cases will The Cowboy Chronicle is submit- away, requiring a laptop permanently processing file must be a Microsoft they be processed for publication. V ted by SASS members. Even be within arms length … and running! Word file. All Cowboy Chronicle materi- The resources to turn these hand- though the number of professio- There a number of things each al is processed on a Mac, and Word written letters into processable text nal/semi-professional writers in SASS submitter can do that will make the Perfect files, for example, are just are simply not available. can be counted on one hand, this mate- editors’ jobs easier and will materially impossible to get unscrambled. If you are reporting the results of rial is vital to the well-being of the improve the quality of and interest in Text can also be snail-mailed to a match, or otherwise using some- organization and is greatly appreciat- each submitted article. If you draw “Tex” at the SASS office. An electron- one’s SASS handle (which should ed. Member submitted material re- the short straw to do the match write ic version of the Word file on a CD or always be used in lieu of a SASS per- flects the ideas, philosophy, issues, and up for your annual match, or you DVD is the preferred medium, and a son’s street name), include their solutions that concern us all. The want to let others know about your hardcopy printout of the text provides SASS number the first time they are (small!) editorial staff takes great club activities, or submit material for a great “fail-safe” backup in case there mentioned (especially important in pride in processing this material … any of the other sections of The Cowboy is a problem reading the CD/DVD. It the “Winners” list). If you don’t know turning some of it into a bit more cor- Chronicle, please continue reading … is possible to scan hardcopy if the text (Continued on page 24) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 7 Page 8 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

FROM THE DESK OF THE GENERAL Live and Let Live! By US Grant, SASS #2

understand, I shoot .45’s, .32-20’s, ter in spite of my equipment instead and take the consequences of my and .32 H&R Mags, all loaded with of because of my equipment!!! Don’t decisions like a man without beg- blackpowder, depending on the day lessen my feeling of happiness when ging for special consideration for and how I feel at the time. To me, low- I do manage to take down a knock- my choices. ering the settings to fit what I decided down target that someone with a .38 On most days I like my .45’s and to shoot after reading the SASS or .45 has had trouble with. Allow other days I use my .32’s, I have just General US Grant, SASS #2 Handbook and knowing my .32’s me to compete in this sport under as much fun. If it ain’t broke, don’t would be marginal would be just the rules that were in effect when I fix it.” here have been many com- wrong!!! It lowers me and detracts made my decisions on equipment I believe it’s important to live ments lately on the wire from my enjoyment when I easily take without trying to give me an extra and be content with the choices we T and articles regarding light down knockdowns with my ‘mighty’ advantage for that equipment!!! each make—live and let live— loads. I thought it interesting how at .32’s!! I made the decision to use my Allow me to step up to the firing line COWBOY UP! least one of our members feels about .32’s. Nobody forced this decision the situation. The following letter upon me. I made that decision know- from Greenriver, SASS #38681, is ing full well they might be marginal VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT WWW.SASSNET.COM quoted verbatim … on some targets, and I neither ask nor “Please understand this is my want the sport changed to accommo- GIVE TO THE personal opinion, but I really don’t date my decision on what I shoot!!! I SASS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION want to see the knockdowns set lower can shoot my .32’s faster than my (A non-profit, tax-deductable charity) than what SASS has always recom- .45’s, so it is only fair I have to aim a mended as a standard setting, 158 little more carefully with them. MAKE THE DIFFERENCE! grain .38 Special Factory Load. Now, Don’t lessen my efforts to do bet- May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 9

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SILVER SCREEN LEGEND X A TRIBUTE TO HOPALONG CASSIDY By Dutch, SASS #455

o commemorate the 10th spots, hearts, and stars. Tex Burns, beginning in 1951. TAnniversary of the Happy Trails This is a stunning hand However, it was Hollywood pro- Children’s Foundation Silver Screen carved black and white gun ducer Harry “Pop” Sherman, teamed Legend fund raising project, the leg- rig that is singularly with actor, William Boyd, who would endary Colt’s Manufacturing Co. of unique and truly a cowboy make our hero a household name all Hartford, CT has generously donat- collectible that anyone over the world. Beginning with ed an exquisite pair of very special would be proud to own. 1935’s Hop-A-Long Cassidy, Sher- Single Action Army Model P 1873 From the moment man produced a majority of the orig- Colt Peacemakers. These guns have Hoppy was first introduced inal 66 feature films. been painstakingly and accurately in author Clarence E. After several years, Sherman transformed into authentic repro- Mulford’s epic western was ready to move on to other proj- ductions of the original Colt .45’s novel Bar 20, published in ects so Boyd took a gamble, selling used by William Boyd as Hopalong 1906, he became a legend. almost everything he owned to raise, Cassidy, one of America’s most Through the years, Mulford beg, and borrow enough money to beloved fictional Western heroes. wrote many more Hoppy purchase the rights to the Hoppy Fully engraved in the exact pattern Silver Screen Legend X stories ending with films and name, shrewdly including of the originals, these 5-1/2” barrel Hopalong Cassidy Serves a the television rights for technology pistols have been sterling silver plat- To complement these guns, a Writ, published in 1941. Mulford that was then in the experimental ed and feature beautiful hand- faithful reproduction of the then retired from writing, but with stages. After acquiring the rights, carved genuine pre-ban elephant Hopalong Cassidy double holster rig Hoppy’s popularity still at a fever Boyd produced the final series of ivory grips with silver Colt medal- has been recreated, incorporating all pitch, and with Mulford’s approval, Hoppy feature films and later 40 lions. These beautiful pistols are the unusual features of the original, Louis L’Amour penned four more episodes of the popular half-hour TV truly works of art! including the proper sterling silver Hoppy novels under the pen name (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 11 (Continued from previous page) Silver Screen Legend project. show in the early 1950’s. Boyd as The original concept, overall Hopalong Cassidy became the first theme, coordination, and design of major television star in the late the Silver Screen Legend X were pro- 1940’s when he packaged his feature vided by Jim Lockwood of Legends in films for the then almost unknown Leather. He also personally hand medium of television that was soon crafted all the leather in his Prescott, to sweep across the country into AZ shop. The handmade sterling sil- nearly every home. Almost instantly, ver buckle sets, spots, and the exqui- he became more popular than ever site hand engraving on the pistols and made a fortune off the character were provided by Conrad Anderson, he portrayed for so many years in the Rocktree Ranch Enterprises, popular series of films. He became so Kingston, ID. The exceptional carved popular he soon had his own comic ivory grips were hand crafted by Bob books, as did his beloved white charg- Leskovec, Precision Pro Grips, er, Topper. He had a radio show Gibsonia, PA. David Warther of based on the character and was in Sugarcreek, OH donated the ivory, constant demand for public appear- and Ron Love of Prescott, AZ donated ances. Boyd’s likeness as Hoppy the prop cartridges. could be found on milk cartons, bread Tickets for this one-of-a-kind wrappers, and hundreds of toys and museum quality cowboy collectible products. Through television, Hoppy are $10 each or 11 tickets for $100. became a hero for all ages and gen- The drawing will be held December ders and will live forever in the 16, 2007 in Victorville, CA. You need hearts of western fans everywhere. not be present to win. You may order The Happy Trails Children’s tickets by phone (760) 240-3330 or Foundation is proud to honor this online www.happytrails.org. Or you legendary fictional western hero may send your check to: Happy with the presentation of our first Trails Children’s Foundation, Silver TWO-GUN OUTFIT, to commemo- Screen Legend X, 10755 Apple Valley rate the 10th anniversary of the Road, Apple Valley, CA 92308.

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NRA HONORS COWGIRL By Aimless Annie, SASS Life/Regulator #6890

t’s official! Our own Justice Lily nized one of our own for an honor of shooters into the fold. Since she sel- IKate, SASS Life Regulator #1000, this magnitude. dom takes “no” for an answer, I’ve has been selected to receive NRA’s Most of us know Kate as the gre- personally seen her coax reluctant 2007 Marion P. Hammer Woman of garious wife of Judge , observers into taking a shot, eventu- Distinction Award. It’s a well- SASS #1. We also know her as an ally converting them into enthusias- deserved choice and a coup for the enthusiastic supporter of Cowboy tic participants in the time it takes to cowgirls. Action Shooting™. There is, howev- hold a two-day match. Each year, the National Rifle er, much more to this native Texan Kate is also a natural when it Association singles out individuals than her cowgirl personae. Kate is a comes to firearm education. As a who have had a noteworthy impact woman for all seasons: wife, mother, child, she was taught gun safety and on gun ownership in America. The school teacher, journalist, activist, how to shoot at a young age. She highly coveted Marion Hammer and willing ambassador for our was allowed to go hunting with her Award for women was created in sport. What sets her apart from her brothers at age eight and often 2004 and named for NRA’s first peers is her tireless and assertive accompanied her Dad on coyote kills female President. The award recog- use of every opportunity to promote early in the morning, before chores nizes exceptional contributions to both her sport and the purposes and and school. The family hunted to the preservation of the Second goals of the NRA. secure food, and Kate got her first Justice Lily Kate Amendment and the shooting sports Through travels with the Judge, deer at age twelve. She takes this through education, advocacy, volun- Justice Lily Kate has had an oppor- background with her into the class- and of themselves, are dangerous teerism, and legislative activism in tunity to interact with thousands of room, which she admits to using as and kill people.” Amazingly, Kate’s support of the goals of the NRA. women, literally coast to coast. While a bully pulpit. Principal at Houston’s Langham The selection of Justice Lily Kate she is an excellent Cowboy Action Says Kate: “I use the classroom Creek High School, is very support- for this prestigious award marks Shooter in her own right, with plenty to teach my students about gun ive of her efforts to keep an open the first time the marquee pro-gun of plaques on her wall to prove it, her safety, concealed carry licensing, dialog regarding guns. Kate was organization has formally recog- strength is in her ability to bring new and to negate the idea that guns, in (Continued on page 23) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 13 Page 14 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

LADIES TEA & RESTING ROOM DÉBUTS AT FOUNDERS RANCH By Tess Dandridge, SASS #50371

ND of TRAIL 2007 is almost upon us, and this year a fine tradition is returning. The Ladies Tea Eand Resting Room will be serving tea and cookies. The Tea Tent has been a long since tradition as a place to get out of the elements and give folks the opportunity to socialize. In Victorian times, the habit of “Taking Tea” was not only a custom, but moreover, a ceremony, filled with elaborate rituals. A genteel tea party became a symbol of refinement. In the very early years of the 18th Century, a man named Tom Twining began to serve tea in his London Coffeehouse. However, women were not allowed in coffeehouses, so Twining opened an exclusive teahouse for women in 1717, although it remained, for many years, a pleasure that only the rich and the fashionable could enjoy ... Beginning in both America and England in the late l880’s, fine hotels began to offer tea service in Tea Rooms. Victorian ladies and their gentlemen would meet in the late afternoon for tea and conversation. After the popularity of the English tea gardens diminished during the early part of the nineteenth Century, the first official tea room in Britain came around 1864. In rural communities, afternoon tea evolved into “high tea,” and almost became a meal in itself. High Tea is another acronym for “afternoon tea,” and it became such in rural communities and evolved into the main meal of the day. High Tea was a cross between afternoon tea, and the din- ner that was normally served in homes in the early evening. Tea also became an important social event, when people (especially women) would gather in their elegant drawing rooms and partake of their afternoon cuppa, talking discreetly about local events. A general rule of etiquette was always followed during these gatherings. Unlike Mr. Tom Twining, our END of TRAIL Tea and Resting Room will serve Cowboys and Ladies alike. Please stop by, visit, and enjoy a cup of tea with us. May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 15 WINTER RANGE 2007 (Continued from page 1) Lees Memorial Sleuth award and donated those who would do our coun- stages designed by Blackjack Zak and Lt. Col. by Desperado Cowboy Bullets. try harm. We cannot thank Scratch. Our intrepid range masters had more Friday morning dawned once again them enough. The very than able assistance from Lobo Joe, The Fixer, bright and clear with the temperature enthusiastic standing Lighting Rick, and Amigo Mike, who literally rising into the high 80’s. The intense ovation he received spent hundreds of hours working on set pieces and friendly competition continued made it very clear and targets. These stages were the best Winter throughout Friday and Saturday how all the cowboys Range has ever seen, and if you have attended for bragging rights and those great and cowgirls felt. Winter Range in the past, you will know that is bronze trophies. As the award cer- saying something. There were, in fact this year, emony started, Tex The stages were chal- no authenticated sightings of an of the Wild Bunch lenging without being old bearded man named Noah was invited to share ‘tricky,’ and very diverse leading pairs of animals a word. His praise of with a lot of move- through sutler’s row carrying Winter Range was ment with long guns some lumber as there had indeed gratifying, but from position to been the past couple of even better was his position, and that years at Winter Range. firm denial of the made you think, Starting on Friday and rumor SASS was plan- which turned out continuing through Satur- ning to move the to be one my per- day evening, all of the com- National Championship to sonal problems. petitors, vendors, sponsors, and Founders Ranch. “Nothing The set pieces visitors were treated to some could be further from the were terrific, pretty terrific entertainment truth,” Tex stated, and assured including a very both in the main tent and in a Overall SASS all present Winter Range large train per- special entertainment tent just National Champions— would host the National sonally built by off our food court—or corral, more Holy Terror and Championship for the next Lt. Col. Scratch. properly. These fine folks included Boots Rob. four years. Good goin’! The shotgun tar- Sid Hausman, Kip Calahan, Way Congratulations! There was another story gets were bigger Out West, Will Roberts, Mark Brooks, very few were aware of. A gentleman named this year, and some and, of course, the incredible talents of Wade Freeman visited Winter Range and tried great knockdown plate Lafitte, Knight of the Green Cloth. out a couple of guns. In December 2005 Wade’s racks were added that Friday night brought the return both of neck was broken in a car accident, and he was were fun without being a Casino night and our annual karaoke contest. hospitalized for 13 months. His injury resulted problem. Even and care- The action at the tables was brisk and the in his diagnosis as a high-level quadriplegic. ful layout of the stage sce- SASS Winter Range singing, although spirited, ranged from great Winter Range was his first “outing” of any kind narios kept all the posses Top Gun Shoot-off to kind of less great. All had a terrific time, since his injury. He was moving with virtually no Winners—Holy Terror and some pretty nice raffle prizes left the wheeled to our practice backup or traffic conges- and Chuckwalla Kid. tent in the hands of smiling folks. stage and allowed to tion, and that’s some Head to head competition On Saturday night after another terrif- fire a .44-40 with the accomplishment in a at it’s very best! ic meal by the Bar B Que Crew, the cow- help and careful match this large. All of Well done! boys and cowgirls danced the night observation of one the elements appropriate for a National Cham- away to the great sounds of Mark Brooks of our rangers. pionship were there. and The Cow Dudes. Wade was also Thursday evening brought a whole new The awards ceremony on helped to fire entertainment theme to Winter Range. Sunday following the second both the can- After sampling some of the biggest burri- half of the Shotgun Blast, non and the tos I personally have ever seen ably the team event, the All Gatling gun. served up by the Bar B Que crew, our Around Cowboy, and the While these cowboys and cowgirls were treated to a Top Gun Cowboy and events might night of mystery theatre called Cowgirl competition seem minor to “Murder at the High Noon Saloon.” brought some very spe- some of us, to Professionally presented by Pistols cial moments. One of the him this was a and Petticoats, LLC, this old fashioned best moments was when very big deal. whodunit was a tale of murder, betray- Race Gunner, a midshipman When speaking of al, and intrigue with a liberal sampling at the US Naval Academy, who the recoil, Wade of good guys, bad guys, a bevy of beautiful had flown across country to com- stated, “This is the saloon girls, and even a town pete in Winter Range, first time I have been drunk. A great evening was had Match Director, Blackjack Zak, won 8th place in his cate- able to feel anything by all, and the one individual again assembled an outstanding gory. This fine young man below my neck since crew of lieutenants and assistants that solved the mystery, Joe who managed to produce the represented all of those All Around Cowboy my injury. I kinda feel Lafives was given a very hand- event with flawless precision. outstanding individuals Winners—Long Hunter real again.” Both some engraved box declaring Extensive pre-planning ensured who serve our country, and Half-a-Hand Henri. Wade and his wife, him the winner of the Isaiah excellent execution! standing between us and Outstanding job! (Continued on page 39) Page 16 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

TIME TO READY YOUR COSTUMES FOR i THE 26TH ANNUAL END of TRAIL i By Cat Ballou, SASS #55

lems between the various costume a separate contest be held for B- you get my point. To alleviate some Cat Ballou, SASS #55 contests and the shooting schedules Western. There just aren’t enough of the hours spent sitting through all ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ resulted in folks not being able to hours in the day and night to appro- those END of TRAIL awards, we are finish their stages and make it to the priately schedule all these contests moving selected costume awards to he 26th END of TRAIL is fast Best Dressed judging on time. We and entertainment, so we are consol- other days and nights. Shooting approaching; in fact, it’s next hope we’ve resolved that issue by idating B-Western back into the fold Costumes, Guncarts, Best Conven- T month! It’s definitely time to extending the judging time from of the Best Dressed contest on tioneers, and Best Waddies costume ready your costumes for participa- 5:30 – 7:00 PM in the Belle Union Saturday evening. awards will be distributed 6:30 PM tion in the various costume contests Saloon on Saturday, June 23rd. Soiled Doves judging will be Friday evening in Founders Hall, that permeate the event. Our cos- New this year and continuing held from 8:30 – 9:30 PM Thursday, and the judging for these contests tume contests’ sponsor continues to with the Classic Gunfights and June 21st in the Belle Union. The will now take place on Thursday and be Wild West Mercantile, C. S. Fly Gunfighters’ theme is an “open” cos- awards are presented immediately Friday morning, June 21st and and Claudia Feather of Phoenix, tume category, the Classic after the judges reach their “diffi- 22nd, from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM in Arizona, and we continue to be very . Awards will be given 1st cult” decisions, and then the gam- the Belle Union Saloon. grateful for their ongoing support to 3rd place for the best-looking bling commences. It’s also time to make a rule year after year! Classic Gunfighter, be they male, Sunday’s Awards Ceremony last change to the Best Dressed Costume Last year some scheduling prob- female, or junior. Also, no longer will year went on and on and on … well, (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 17

(Continued from previous page) Costume Contests information on Contest regarding not entering a the website, but it will be in effect at costume again that has already won the 26th END of TRAIL. first place either at the SASS Con- It is my fervent wish many of you vention or END of TRAIL. This “no sign up to participate in the great repeat” rule may be hurting, rather END of TRAIL costume contests. than helping, the growth of costume Costume contests information is contests, as participation in some available on the SASS Website. You categories has been declining. can even sign up online. Of course, Therefore, if a costume is a first sign up forms and rules will also be place winner at END of TRAIL, the included in all the END of TRAIL same costume CAN be entered at the Action Shooters, Mounted Shooters, SASS Convention, and vice versa. conventioneers, and waddies’ pack- Once that costume is a first place ets. And, if you see me strolling winner at BOTH the SASS Con- down the streets of our growing vention and END of TRAIL, it needs western town at beautiful Founders’ to be “retired.” This rule change is Ranch, please stop, say hello, and not reflected in the END of TRAIL let’s talk costumes! Page 18 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

Tuesday is the warm-up match, Shooters Handbook has been around the local clubs as a shoot- and Wednesday brings World, printed and is available for er with the Rio Grande National, and Western Regional download on the SASS Renegades and Buffalo Range Champion, Expressman, in for an Mounted Riders and advanced clinic to tune up riders Website. has been an competing in END of TRAIL. Also avail- active volun- Expressman will take riders of all able for down- teer on many levels and share his techniques for load is the Founders the winning ride. He will do this in a updated Ranch new warm-up arena located adjacent MRO-I projects, to the main arena. Course. including Wednesday is also fun day with With so swinging a the main match following on Thurs- much activity hap- hammer on the first END of day, Friday, and Saturday. Brand pening at Founders TRAIL Town Buildings. We new this year is a Saturday night Ranch, including build- welcome these two new bright awards ceremony expressly for the ing of the Western Town additions to the SASS Mounted Shooters. Competitors pla- and yours truly now liv- Family! Chiz, SASS #392 cing second and beyond will be feted ing in the Land of A tribute to the late SASS Marketing Director with a Mariachi ceremony Enchantment, SASS Miss Ann, beloved featuring Margaritas and a live has opened a satel- wife of Billy Boots, ND of TRAIL is just around Mariachi Band. The ceremony will lite office in Edge- will take place dur- the corner, and the Mounted be held in the Tijeras Corral and wood where two ing END of TRAIL E Shooting folks are in for a folks are encouraged to dress Mex! new employees have come on board. on Wednesday, June 20 at 5:00 p.m. treat! Along with the action packed All END of TRAIL participants are Cimarron Lou has been added as A New Mexican style bench and a shooting event schedule for the welcome, and this should be one Marketing Manager to help with the tree will be placed just outside the Action Shooters, the mounted folks heckuva party! The following Sun- tasks of event production, advertis- mission entry where folks can rest in have quite a schedule. Starting on day morning, a Mounted Shooting ing, and promotion of SASS. A the shade during Founders Ranch Monday, Founders Ranch’s own Awards ceremony will continue on recent transplant from the state of events. Miss Ann, who loved Foun- Buffalo Range Riders Mounted will horseback for the first place winners Washington, she now lives in ders Ranch, was given the True Grit be putting on a new shooters’ clinic. in the main arena in front of the Edgewood and brings many years of Award last END of TRAIL and Open to all riders, it is designed to public. corporate experience to the organi- passed on shortly thereafter. The introduce horses and their owners to Speaking of Mounted Shooting, zation. Prairie Mary is our new dedication ceremony is open to all this fascinating sport. version 10 of the SASS Mounted Clubs’ Manager. She is well known END of TRAIL participants. May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 19 END of TRAIL Tuesday Night Country Dance Class Beginners are welcome! By Miss Tabitha, SASS #26972

rush up on your two- of fun as she teaches you what you need to know to Bstep and learn to get you moving on the dance floor on spin your honey in the Friday and Saturday night. In Cowboy swing! Begin- between couples’ dances, she’s likely ners are welcome! to throw in an old-time square dance Miss Tabitha, SASS #26972 Known for her abil- or reel, just to keep you in ity to make dance the mood of a cowboy steps easy to barn dance. understand, Miss So grab your Tabitha will give honey, and pro- you a boot-scoo- menade your tin’ good time on way on down to Tuesday night in Founders Hall on Founders Hall for Tuesday evening for a Country Dance everything you need class. This class is de- to know to dance signed especially for the night away! beginners or for those who want to brush-up on the basics. Miss Tabitha personally wants to invite all reluctant husbands and those with two left feet to come have a barrel Page 20 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

CIVIL WAR HERITAGE PRESERVATION

he North-South Skirmish Asso- titions, called “skirmishes,” Tciation will hold its 115th will be held throughout the National Competition on May 18- summer on a regional basis. 20, 2007 at Fort Shenandoah, near At a skirmish, participating Winchester, Virginia. Member teams shoot at breakable tar- units compete in live-fire matches gets in several timed events. with original or authentic reproduc- The teams with the lowest tion Civil War period muskets, car- cumulative times win medals bines, rifles, revolvers, mortars, and or other awards. cannons. It is the largest Civil War Women participate along event of its kind in the country. with the men in all events. Founded in 1950, the N-SSA has There are also competitions for 3,500 individuals that make up its authenticity of Civil War peri- 200 member teams. Each team rep- od military and civilian dress, resents a Civil War regiment or unit period music, and lectures on and wears the uniform they wore topics of historical interest. over 145 years ago. Spectators are welcome and admission is free. There is N-SSA members come from all Lawrence “Hoot” Gibson of the 3rd Georgia Infantry takes aim with his C. S. over the country to Fort Shenan- Richmond rifle during the musket matches at the North-South Skirmish a large sutler area and food doah each spring for this national Association’s 114h National Competition held last October. The 115th National will service is available. For more competition that traditionally be held May 18-20, 2007 at the Association’s home range, Fort Shenandoah, near information, visit the N-SSA opens the year’s activities. Compe- Winchester, Virginia. For more information, visit www.n-ssa.org. web site at: www.n-ssa.org. May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 21 Page 22 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

e e U.S. FIRE ARMS MFG. CO. REINTRODUCES DEAN SMITH CELEBRITY THE BISLEY MODEL! RODEO CARRIES ON BEN rlando, Florida – the Bisley such as JOHNSON’S LEGACY OU.S. Fire Arms Mfg. engraving; gold By Texas Jack Hondo, SASS #45841 Co. (USFA) in Hartford, and silver plate; and ivory, stag, Connecticut, proudly n October 19th-21, 2006, of all who participated until Dean and other grips. announces after exten- Abilene, Texas, witnessed a and Debby Smith took up the As with the O sive research and engi- western event that won’t be for- cause and continued the tradition. original Bisley neering they have in gotten for a very long time. Dean Smith, along with all the other Model revolvers, production a full line of Smith, a noted stunt man, ranch- celebrities, Buck Taylor, Alex Cord, the USFA Bisley Model is 100% the famous Bisley Model Single er, and all around westerner, put Bruce Boxleitner, Peter Brown, made in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Action revolvers. Originally pro- on the third Dean Smith Jack Hondo, numerous sponsors, These guns are already being duced by the Colt’s Mfg. Co. from Celebrity Rodeo at Taylor Coun- and volunteers successfully con- shipped to select dealers and several 1894 to 1912, the original run includ- ty’s Expo Center in the Ben tinued and improved the event. current production models were ed over 44,000 guns in 18 calibers in Johnson tradition. Dean Smith also received the introduced at the Shot Show in a dizzying array of configurations. Ben Johnson, Academy Award Western Man of the Year Award Orlando, FL. The New USFA Bisley Model winning actor, stunt man, and and was presented an exact About U.S. Fire Arms revolver is completely available ini- World Champion team roper who remake of John Wayne’s 20x hat USFA is the only firearms manu- tially in three barrel lengths (4-3/4", passed away in 1996, was also from Beaver Brand Hat Company facturer in Hartford, Connecticut 5-1/2", and 7-1/2"), six calibers (.32- noted for putting on the Ben who gives the award to a person and is best known for its historically 20 WCF, .38 Special, .38-40 WCF, .44 Johnson Pro-Celebrity Rodeo for who has done the most to carry on accurate, best of breed production of Special, .44-40 WCF, .45 Colt), and kids. There was a void in the lives and preserve the western way. three finishes (Armory Blue, Armory Single Action revolvers, US Pre-War, Blue with bone case color frame, and Plinker .22, Omni & Bisley Model bright nickel). The entire menu of revolvers, Lightning rifles, Maxim For more information, contact ny’s complete line of guns, parts, pis- custom options available with our Silencers, and M1910 and M1911 USFA at 860-296-7441 or sales@ tol magazines, and more, visit: standard line will be available for auto pistols. usfirearms.com. To see the compa- www.usfirearms.com May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 23

NRA HONORS COWGIRL . . . GIVE TO THE (Continued from page 12) Cat Ballou, SASS #55 Life, Shot- named “Teacher of the Year” in glass, SASS #17153 Life, Fannie SASS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION 2006, and her district Superin- Kikinshoot, SASS #33693 Life, (A non-profit, tax-deductable charity) tendent calls her ! Lizzie Marie, SASS #19774 Life, and MAKE THE DIFFERENCE! Though Kate has no official involve- Velvet Glove, SASS #50276. Kate ment with the SASS Scholarship does know her stuff—and when Foundation, she is especially proud NRA President Sandra Froman ulate spokesperson for women gun women shooters are considerable of its success and the genuine source came to the SASS Convention last owners, both in and out of the cow- and her positive influence on stu- of recognition and encouragement it year, it was Kate who helped dress girl arena. dents regarding the gun issue is provides for our youngsters. her for her presentation, including Justice Lily Kate garners enthu- vitally important. She is a thought- In spite of her busy schedule, shopping for a corset! siasm for both Second Amendment ful, willing activist who exemplifies Kate makes time to write for sever- Even before Justice Lily Kate issues and shooting sports—and we what NRA’s Marion P. Hammer al national magazines including met Judge Roy Bean, she was an are pleased the NRA has taken Women of Distinction Award is all Women & Guns, SHOOT! and active member of a Cowboy Action notice. She remains a cowgirl at about. Congratulations Kate! We Women’s Outlook. Her recent “cow- Shooting™ club, the Texas Histo- heart, but her efforts on behalf of are very proud of you. girl” article in the March/April ‘06 rical Shooting Society. She attended issue of NRA’s Women’s Outlook her first match in March of 1997, brought much attention to our sport became a member in April, and was from a woman’s perspective. But elected to the board of directors in www.sweetshooter.com Kate knows well that shooting for October. She served on the board for sport is the fun side of gun owner- four years as Secretary, Treasurer, ship. She has made sure to secure Vice-President, and Co-Match Di- her right to carry while traveling by rector for their major annual match, obtaining licenses in Texas, Florida, known as “Trailhead.” and Utah. Says Kate: “I believe When scheduling allows, Kate those three licenses cover at least 22 can be found at NRA and industry states, though I’m constantly check- conventions, as well as the Second ing new laws to keep current.” Amendment Foundation’s Gun As a testament to her signifi- Rights Policy Conference. As wife of cance as cowgirl ambassador, Kate SASS #1, Kate often finds herself in was invited to give a Cowboy Action the spotlight, frequently inter- Shooting™ seminar at the NRA viewed by reporters and radio hosts. Annual Meeting in April, 2007, in She displays conviction and a natu- the form of an Afternoon Ladies Tea ral ease when she expresses her pro- for the NRA Board Members spous- gun views. Her responses are es, complete with the best in fashion always on point and almost always from our sport. She was assisted by amusing! She has become an artic- Page 24 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

SUBMITTING MATERIAL TO THE COWBOY CHRONICLE . . . (Continued from page 6) major article can be as much as 1200 their number, don’t worry about it. words but should never be more than But if you’re reporting a SASS sanc- 1500 words. Anything over 2000 tioned shooting match, everyone is words will be edited down. This edit- required to be a SASS member, and ing down of text not only takes time, their SASS number is included in but it’s now the editor (one of only their registration materials. If you two) who is determining the content don’t provide their numbers, the edi- of the piece rather than the author. torial staff must look up the numbers, Keep the articles in bounds and main- again slowing the production process. tain control of the contents. (Word 400 words are plenty when writ- has a menu function that counts the ing a letter expressing an opinion or number of words in your article.) making a comment. 800 words (half a Obviously, match officials need to Cowboy Chronicle page) are generally make sure their range help and plenty when writing a column. A (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 25 (Continued from previous page) you just might make the cover of The match sponsors know they are appre- Cowboy Chronicle! ciated. Thank you notes are appropri- First … don’t try to “help” by lay- ate … but they should consistently be ing out the article yourself. Often handled separately from The Cowboy Word documents are received with Chronicle match report. There are the photos and captions carefully and always 800 to 1200 words of interest- strategically placed within the text. ing match items to be reported with- Since the layout process is the last out using your word allocation for thing done prior to publication, the long lists of “thank you’s.” first thing done to the submitted One last thing … fractions. It material is to extract the photos and turns out there is a difference in the captions from the text … once again, ASCII codes used by the Mac and PCs inserting an “extra” step in the pro- for fractions. When these codes are duction process and slowing things entered on a PC and submitted to The down. Keep the text file and the Cowboy Chronicle, they come out as photo files separate. blanks. The editors are not shy about Quite often a large number of pho- guessing what the fractions should tos are received with an article … with be, but to ensure fidelity, do your frac- no captions or any other indication tions like this: 1-1/2,” or 3-3/4”, or 1/3 what is significant about the pictures tsp flour … … just a bunch of pictures taken at a By the way … always include a match. That’s not particularly inter- Byline … we must know who wrote esting to the folks who weren’t there, the material! and the editors can’t help if they don’t Photographs know the individuals in the pictures Photographs make all the differ- or weren’t present at the match. ence between an OK article and a In recent months large numbers of great article … but all photos are not collages have been printed because created equal. There are many things that’s all that were submitted. There you can do to “spruce-up” your article! was no useful information submitted It goes without saying, only “good” with the pictures. Pick half a dozen photos should be submitted—in focus pictures that you especially like and pictures that show something you develop captions for them. A caption find interesting. In general, get up is different from a title. “Stage 9,” The close and get plenty of light on your Buffet Line,” and “Sammy Shoots A subject. Always use a fill-in flash dur- Lot, SASS #445566,” are examples of ing the day on the range. Be creative “titles.” A caption is one to three sen- and look for great “action” photos … (Continued on page 88) Page 26 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTINCTION ARE NATURE’S WAYS By Colonel Dan, SASS Life# 24025

cooling. When that didn’t align with explain the ice age glaciers retreat- facturing. Socialism, Fascism and historical facts, the cry from Al Gore ing north as the earth warmed Communism are the antitheses of and his ilk became global warming. before industrialization existed? that freedom. Under those systems, Colonel Dan, Now that this isn’t selling universal- Without getting into a lot of sci- government exercises control over SASS Life #24025 ly given record lows around the entific mumbo jumbo, the tempera- the markets and industry. world, the battle cry we hear today is ture of the earth is determined If politicians can convince you ow many out there really be- climate change. much more by fluctuating solar it’s those greedy capitalists that are Hlieve the fanatical environmen- Well, let’s talk about those his- emissions than by any man-made killing the atmosphere and as a tal movement in Washington is torical facts, Al. Our climate’s been emissions. That’s just the basic result, we’ll all die, they hope to spawned by a sincere concern for the changing since the beginning of time truth of it—a fact that doesn’t quite inspire a scream from the masses, in planet? If you raised your hand, I and long before man ever walked fit the purpose of the modern politi- the bastardized name of “democra- hate to burst your bubble, but for the the earth or drove an SUV. We’ve cal climate crusaders like Mr. Gore. cy,” for government to “do some- real answer, follow the money and gone through periods of warmth What does fit as an explanation for thing.” They will then step in and power, then watch where it leads. that turned into the ice age that this phony campaign is rooted in take control of our means of produc- Let’s consider two examples: the returned again to a period of power and control. tion … in order to save the world … climate crusade and animal warmth. Were that not the case, Capitalism is based on free of course. Climate crusaders are activism. how do you explain fossils of tropical choice, free markets, private property, simply using this indirect approach The mantra of political climate vegetation that are found in the and private control over the means of as a way of taking control over crusaders at one time was global Arctic Circle? Or how do you production; i.e., industry and manu- (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 27

RESPONSE TO And if SASS wanted to, they could THERE’S JUST with – and for instance enjoy “action decide to adjust this limit upward even shooting sports” with their shotguns, MINIMUM higher, just as they did for the knockdown NO END … without the heavy recoil that annoys so RECOIL LOADS target load limit – which the author does- many sportspersons that are not using n’t mention. That rule alone would not You will not believe what I have just these guns in the hunting field, but pre- I liked the article by Arizona Tom on allow .22 loads or anything that light. So, bought … it’s an insert for a 12 gauge fer to use these widely available firearms Page 42 of the February Chronicle on min- if that potential shooting range he men- shotgun that is placed in the breech of for pastime and recreation.” imum recoil loads. And, I have heard the tions wanted to be regulation, they would the gun and accepts standard .22 cal Accompanying this advertisement on arguments in all previous Chronicles on have to at least have the minimum ammunition! You just put them in your TV was a sequence showing a shooter fir- the various sides of this issue. It is more knockdown load. side-by-side, load up two .22 cartridges, ing at Cowboy Action Shooting™ style complex than Arizona describes, as you It’s a tough line to draw. And there close your shotgun as you would regular- knockdown targets … know. has been a lot of discussion on all the ly do and fire away. Open the gun and Arizona Tom, SASS #30872 Bottom line is this: I download various rule changes over the years to the shells are extracted, put in two more Croatia because I am sick and tired being a loser! keep the line in the right place. But I – close the gun … I set up some shotgun The first year I used only full loads, and I wouldn’t mind setting a heavier mini- knockdowns and fired from 7-9 yards; the ALWAYS ended up at the bottom of the mum load, as long as it is across the targets went down. I clocked standard For AD heap, not the very bottom, but close board; – OR – add yet another category of .22 ammo at 630 fps out of these inserts. Rates enough that I could see the bottom. As full load shooters. Mind you this is not a haphazard long as there is a winner to the match Wild Rose Willie, contraption, but a factory made item the ~ DONNA ~ and a ranking, there will always be ways SASS #57197 owners of this German enterprise “see a (EXT. 118) to improve one’s ability to compete. Mounds View, MN need for so people can have fun, practice

CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTINCTION ARE NATURE’S WAYS . . . front for a socialistic movement (Continued from previous page) rights. Unfortunately, that’s exactly cause, or trumped up excuse to intent on destroying our liberty in industry and manufacturing. what this “environmental move- instill more control over the good the name of preserving our climate or Now let’s consider this “animal ment” does. people of this great country. preserving some animal whose time activist” charade. I’m supremely Let’s just lay this out for all So let nature take its course with has come to fulfill nature’s plan for sick of all these groups that think we America to see. When you boil down the suckerfish and snail darter—and renewing the earth. should preserve every species on this incessant “made-for-TV-feel- by the way, I like warm climates— * * * * earth forever at the expense of the good-ism” what’s left is the underly- that’s why I live in Florida! And Just the view from my saddle… lives and land of the people who bear ing political objective of the environ- finally, to blazes with these eco-liber- Contact Colonel Dan: the impact today. mental and animal rights facade— als who are just some manipulated [email protected] The facts of nature are indis- the establishment of more govern- putable, and these ecological con ment control over private property, artists should just admit it. The the means of production … and peo- coming and going of plant and ani- ple, not the protection of animals or mal types is nature’s way of renew- the earth’s atmosphere. ing the earth and has been since I don’t know of one American time began. Most species have or that advocates the deliberate will become extinct at some point destruction of the earth or the inten- along eternity’s timeline—it’s been tional obliteration of any plant or that way for billions of years. So why animal—I certainly don’t. But, if you do we think modern man can or were to believe the ramblings of should even try to alter nature’s some of these eco-groups, such plan? That’s pretty presumptuous of destruction is central to the capital- us, isn’t it? ist philosophy and a threat to all. Since the establishment of the The real threat to America lies Environmental Protection Agency under the covers of this deceitful and the passing of the Endangered movement. Ironically, that threat is Species Act, many more human freedom’s destruction in the name of rights have been dismantled and America’s preservation, not the pos- people’s lives destroyed than any sibility some fish might cease to other living species on earth. In exist, or the temperature might short, private property, the very change by a degree or two. foundation of a free society, is now I have little, if any, patience or subject to extreme government con- respect for those that attempt to trol under the guise of plant and ani- insult our intelligence with such a mal conservation. What does that transparently phony cause as theirs, tell you about the underlying pur- especially when the truth can clearly pose of this movement? be seen in the human suffering that Don’t be taken in by all this results from such dishonesty. deception sold in sound bites on the The species experiencing the evening news. Extinction of a most harm from this crusade is man. species is the natural cycle of things. His rights are increasingly forfeited What is not nature’s way is the to a freedom-grabbing gang that extinction of man’s inalienable uses any tear-jerking lie, popular

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WHAT WOULD CHARLIE DO? By Swift Montana Smith, SASS #52720

The response to the threat from our ble dog dare. If someone dared me to out!” Once my wife gets something government seemed to me a little do something and they really played in her head, it goes round and round weak. I wondered what someone it out, I did it. That’s how I jumped off in there for days. like would have done, or the highest cliff at Felix’s quarry and “Why don’t you go down in the Charlie Siringo, or even himself, J.W. almost broke my back when I hit the basement and look for yourself. You “I wish I had a time machine,” I water … but I did it and here I stand haven’t been down there in years!” As said out loud. My wife was cleaning today. I was proud of myself. I said that, she dropped what she was up after the evening meal. “Maybe I’ll just go ahead and do doing and marched down into the “What … a time machine? that,” I said as I opened the cellar basement. After about twenty min- What’s-a-matter, you wanna go back door and walked down into the Pit. utes, she appeared once again at the to the time before we were mar- As you may recall, the cellar is a top of the stairs looking disheveled. ried?” She laughed as she said that, strange and mysterious place to my “OK, forget it,” she said. half kidding, half serious, waiting wife. To her, it is in the fifth dimen- So there I was, headed into the Swift Montana Smith, for the response. sion, although she did go down there Pit to invent a time machine. My SASS #52720 I knew what I wanted to say, but just the other day. workbench is the one place in the smart men don’t talk that way. “Let’s finish off the basement,” house where I really feel comfort- t was raining outside when I “Heavens no dear, what would make she said, “then the kids will have a able. I could live, eat, and sleep Iheard the communist dictatorship you say that?” I said trying to place to play. We don’t even use the there, and if I never saw the light of of North Korea had declared the appease her. “No … just thought I’d cellar now and it’s wasted space.” day again, I wouldn’t even care. I United States of America as its like to know what some of our great “I use the basement,” I said, “I would become a demented, mad sci- enemy. The pot bellied little dictator western heroes would say about use it all the time. What about my entist creating wonders never before translated our recommendations to what’s going on in the world today.” workbench? And my gun cabinet seen or heard of. impose sanctions, via the United “Well, why don’t you invent and reloading table and my guitar I sat down at “Command Cen- Nation, as an act of war. one?” she said, mocking me. and music stand … what about that tral” and lit my pipe. Like Sherlock I sat in my living room watching Now there’s one thing about me. I stuff?” Holmes, I always think better when all this occur on my television set. was the kid that always did the dou- “We’ll have to throw everything (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 29 (Continued from previous page) he said as if he were talking to a I’m smoking tobacco. child, “set yourself down on the porch “This is at least a three pipe prob- here.” He took me by the arm and led lem,” I said imitating Mr. Holmes, me over to the office. I sat down on a “where to start?” I decided that to wooden bench that was under the invent a time machine, the first thing window, and he reached into his vest I would start with was a clock. I pocket and produced a silver dollar. looked around. No clocks to be found. “Here, you’re gonna need this.” I don’t wear a wristwatch and my “No,” I said staring at him and pocket watch is too precious to use as then looking around. My head was an experiment … what to do? still fuzzy, and I was trying desper- “I know!” I said finally after a ately to collect my thoughts and act few more puffs on the pipe. I ran coherent. “Charlie? ... Charlie Sirin- upstairs to the boys’ room. They go.” He was still holding the silver have a plastic clock with Superman dollar, and as I reached out and took on it that sits on their dresser. it, reality made an abrupt appear- Originally the idea was this; I set ance and everything became clear. I the clock, the alarm goes off, and had done it! I had gone back in time they get out of bed. Yeah, right, that and was sitting looking at one of my never happened. I always had to heroes. I practically peed in my wake them up anyway. So we never pants; I was so excited. But instead worried about setting the correct of blurting out something stupid, I blew on it, and continued to whittle. templating the situation. “So now time, and the thing is basically a remembered why I had come there “Yep, so all us neighbors that live what do we do?” I asked. dust collector. Well, at least they’re in the first place. I thanked him for in the area went to his house and He didn’t answer me right away. sound sleepers. the coin and put it in my upper right asked him what he was gonna do He looked at the horse he was carv- I grabbed the Superman clock vest pocket next to my pipe tamper, with that big gun and that big can- ing and took the point of his knife and headed back to my workbench. and then said in my best western non, and he told us to mind our own and started working on one of the After taking off the back off the drawl, “I’ve been lookin’ for ya business, so we decided not to let his eyes of the figure. When it was done clock, I switched some wires and Charlie. I got a question for ya.” cattle water at our wells until he to his satisfaction, he started to talk. actually had the thing running back- He looked at me and sized me up gave up them dangerous weapons.” “I always enjoyed whittling,” he ward. I found an old car battery, and down to see if I was one of the “Then what happened?” Charlie said, “been doing it since I was a kid. about fifty feet of number twelve men on his wanted posters. He asked. You take a piece of wood, or a stick, electrical wire, and a bag of 400-grit assessed my domineer and after “Well sir,” I continued, “he said if and you make something out of it. steel wool. I started wrapping the determining I wasn’t an outlaw or a his cattle can’t water at our wells, You’re doing something good.” He took wire around my chair. When I was threat he said, “Yeah, go ‘head, what’s he would figure that was an act of a deep breath and let it out slowly. finished, I left about ten feet of wire. your question?” He sat down next to war, and he would use that big can- “You sure got a bad one there, Cutting off two feet from the end of me, took a small pocket knife out of non on us!” and there’s only one way to handle a the wire, I took the black wire hang- his vest pocket, and then reached I looked at this lawman that sat character like that. The first thing ing off the chair and connected it to under the bench we were sitting on beside me. You could see him con- (Continued on page 71) the negative end of the battery and for a piece of wood he had obviously then I took the white wire and con- been working on at an earlier time. It nected it to Superman. I stuffed all looked like he was carving a horse. the steel wool in between the coils of How to put this … “Well, there’s wire that was wrapped around the North Korea …” chair. Then I sat on the chair, “Cholera … who’s got cholera?” stripped the plastic casing off of a he asked. piece of wire from the two foot sec- That’s right, I’m in the 1800’s, he tion, and put one end on the positive probably never even heard of Korea. side of the battery and ... as I “I have this neighbor.” I continued. attached the other end to Superman “Your neighbor has cholera?” … I felt the current run through my “NO, No … forget about the hands and then through my body. If cholera … I have this neighbor, and I had hair on my head, it would have he’s nasty to his family. He starves stood straight up! I know this his kids while he eats all the food. because the hair on my arms did just He’s got a big belly, and the kids are that. Suddenly the room began to thin as a rail, and he lives in a big spin and everything got blurry … I house. He makes his wife and kids passed out. sleep in the barn, and every time I try When I awoke I was lying face to talk to him and make him see what down in the middle of a street in he’s doing is wrong, he tells me to shut what appeared to be an old western up.” I was trying to put the whole sce- town with horse manure as a pillow. nario in a way he could understand. Luckily, I had my Cowboy duds on “Now this neighbor of mine just when I started my experiment, so I bought himself a big Gatling gun and fit right in. I looked up and saw a a cannon that’s so big, it could blow up sign with an eye on it that said “WE a whole city.” And then I added, just NEVER SLEEP.” It was a Pinkerton to drive home the point of how bad office, and in the doorway stood a this guy is, “and he eats his dogs.” thin, medium sized man. It was Charlie was listening intently, Charlie Siringo. I stood up and and when he heard the comment wiped the horse poop off my face and about eating dogs, his eyes became clothing. It hadn’t rained in days, so wide open, “Eats dogs? I wouldn’t the road apples were fairly dry. trust a man that eats dogs … not Charlie was laughing. when there’s longhorn everywhere. “You drunks ‘ll sleep anywhere … Why would someone want to eat a won’t cha?” He walked over to me to dog?” His brow furrowed, and he help me out of the street. “Come on,” looked down at what he was carving, Page 30 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

WILLIAM F. “BUFFALO BILL” CODY By Tuolumne Lawman, SASS Life #6127

he ground trembled from the nificent white stallion the image of the west than any other Tthundering hooves of the six with a flowing mane and person of the times. frantically galloping draft horses. long tail. The feathered To understand Buffalo Bill and Atop the driver’s box, the bearded, warriors that weren’t his , you must con- dusty teamster furiously whipped gunned down in the sider the times. the team pulling the Deadwood army’s fusillade turned In the later part of the nine- Stage. Next to him, the lanky “shot- and fled. As one, the teenth century, America was healing gun guard” faced to the rear. He audience rose cheering, from a bloody civil war. The rail- aimed down the gleaming barrel of stamping their feet, and roads had just spanned the conti- his trusty 1873 Winchester, from clapping with a thunder- nent. The cities of the East were under the brim of a ten-gallon som- ous applause. Buffalo overflowing with burgeoning masses. brero. “Boom, boom, boom,” the Bill Cody, last of the fron- America was undergoing an indus- Winchester belched smoke again and tier scouts, prince of the trial revolution. Immigrants flowed again, at the pursuing party of fierce, plains, had arrived to into the melting pot of North whooping Indians. Just as it seemed save the day. America. The tide of humanity was the painted braves would overtake “Buffalo Bill” Cody spreading west from the Mississippi the hapless coach, a loud bugle call was a genuine hero of the River. Cody knew the West would pierced the din. A squad of blue- American West. Early on, soon disappear forever. Let us first coated troopers on powerful chestnut however, he knew the take a brief look at the man and his horses had appeared at a full-on gal- West was changing. Cody own role in the West. Buffalo Bill Cody, circa 1903 lop. The cavalry had arrived, just in loved the west, and want- Probably Cody’s best biographer – Library of Congress photo the nick of time. At the head of this ed others to be able to was Helen Cody Wetmore, his oldest relief column was a tall figure with a experience it before it was all gone. try and even the world. He did this sister. Buffalo Bill was born William goatee and steely eyes. He wearing He attempted to preserve and share through his “Wild West Shows.” Frederick Cody on February 26, 1845 white buckskins and riding a mag- his “Wild West” with the entire coun- Buffalo Bill did more to propagate (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 31 (Continued from previous page) worked their way across the plains. in Scott County, Iowa. Bill was the In 1867, Cody went to work as a meat fourth born of five girls and three hunter for the Kansas Pacific boys in the family of Issac and Mary Railroad, earning the princely sum of Cody. Following the death of Bill’s $500 a month. It was during this older brother, Samuel, in a horseback period that Cody earned the nick- riding accident while showing off to name “Buffalo Bill Cody.” It stemmed the girls at the local school yard in from a bet with Billy Comstock where 1852, Issac decided to sell the farm Cody killed 69 Buffalo in one day, as and head for the in opposed to Comstock’s 43. In that California. After encountering broke, one year, Cody is said to have killed disheartened ex-miners returning 4,280 buffalo. east on the trail, however, Issac In 1869 Cody was again scouting moved the family to Kansas instead. for the Army. During this time, Cody By the mid-1850s, Kansas and first attained fame when Ed Judson Missouri were hotbeds of pro- and (writing under the pen name of “Ned anti- slavery conflict. Bill spent his Buntline”) published a formative years in this cauldron of about Cody called Buffalo Bill, King violence and intrigue. In 1854, Bill’s of the Border Men. This started a father was stabbed while giving an deluge of legends and stories about anti-slavery speech. He was secretly Cody. Cody continued his adven- moved to his brother’s house in Ohio tures with periods of scouting and to convalesce and to hide from the hunting buffalo. In 1872, he took the pro-slavery faction that was looking Russian Grand Duke Alexis on a buf- to finish him off. During this period falo hunt. Alexis tried to kill a buffa- Bill had to step in and become a man lo with a pistol, and it was only before his time. Bill carried mes- Cody’s intervention of handing the sages between Kansas and Ohio for Duke Cody’s own rifle, and getting the family, and even had to use a dou- him within ten feet of the Buffalo, ble-barreled pistol to stand off a that got Alexis the kill. drunken man looking to kill his In 1872, Cody experienced the invalid father. His father never fully stage for the first time. He accompa- recovered, and finally died in 1857. nied Judson (Buntline) to a theatri- Only 12 years old, Bill had to take cal adaptation of a Judson Buffalo the part of the man in the family. Bill story in New York. Cody was In the fall of 1857, Bill took a job captivated and soon began his own on a supply wagon train taking beef presentations of “Scouts of the to the army units that were forming Plains” with fellow legends such as to go to Utah and fight the Mormons. and Texas Jack It was during this trip that Bill Omohundro. It was thoroughly ama- reportedly killed his first man, an teur and silly, but was well received. Indian in a party attacking the They traveled with “Scouts of the group. At twelve years old, Cody was Plains” for several years, playing developing a taste for adventure. In towns such as Saint Louis, Missouri, 1860, Cody joined the fledgling Pony and Rochester, New York. The play Express as a rider taking mail to made incredible amounts of money. California. Almost every trip was an Historian Vincent Desantis tells adventure or a close scrape of some us that in the 1870’s, the West began kind. At his mother’s insistence, to swell with the flow of humanity Cody finally quit and returned home. coming from the East. The railroads In 1861, Cody joined the Union had acquired 130 million acres of Army as a scout. In 1863, he was public land from the government as assigned as a spy behind Confe- they built the transcontinental rail- derate lines. In 1865 when Cody road system. This was sold to set- demobilized, he became a tlers to make towns and raise rev- driver. By 1866, he saved some enues for the railroads. In the last 30 money, married Louisa Frederici, years of the nineteenth century, and opened a boarding house with Americans had spread over 430 mil- her in St. Louis, Missouri. Cody tired lion acres. In the short time between of the inactivity, and rejoined the 1870 and 1900, agriculture had army as a scout on the frontier. spread from 89 million acres to 225 While he used the boarding house as million acres cultivated. Gold strikes a base, he scouted for George like the one in Dakota’s Black Hills Armstrong Custer for several years. region in 1874/1875 would cause This is the time when America even more people to go west. The began to expand westward almost Native American population of the exponentially. The Union Pacific Great Plains and Rocky Mountains Railroad pushed westward from numbered about 250,000 at this Saint Louis to join the Central Pacific time. The Indians resented the dis- Railroad growing eastward from placement by the white tide. They Sacramento, California. In 1869, the had been warring with the encroach- two railroads met at Promontory ing white settlers all along. Point, Utah. The transcontinental Probably the most publicized bat- railway was a reality. Railroads were tles of the era was the massacre of beginning to crisscross the West. The and 264 huge construction crews required men of his 7th Cavalry by Sioux and large amounts of fresh meat as they (Continued on page 45) Page 32 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

ROY ROGERS AND DALE EVANS SUNSET CHAPEL DEDICATION . February 19, 2007 .

By Kid Sopris, SASS Life, Regulator #3290

Dedication Plaque.

Gene Autry’s farewell.

Roy and Dale’s Headstones. San Bernardino Mountains nes- tled in the background. It was he would never make another easy to see why Roy and Dale Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Sunset Chapel at the Sunset Hills promise of this magnitude to any- picked this spot. Memorial Park in Apple Valley, California. one else. As you enter the grounds, you Emotions were ever present, as knew you were somewhere special, estled in the colored rock Dale wanted a place to honor and close to a 1,000 people gathered for someplace where you could forget foothills of Apple Valley celebrate Roy’s life. Chet eagerly the dedication ceremony. Even the about what was bothering you Nexist one of the prettiest agreed to Dale’s request as “she rain, as Dusty pointed out, “were moments or perhaps days before. places in California. It also holds had her ways of convincing you to Dale’s tears of happiness,” and It was so serene, and if heaven the promise kept by Chet Hitt to do things, and do to them correct- would not dampen the event. I existed on earth, this was as close a Dale Evans, Queen of the West. ly,” Chet recalls, “or she would let don’t think anyone had a dry eye, place as you could find. The foun- Shortly after her beloved husband, you know you did it wrong.” Roy not even this writer. I did not take tains, waterfalls, and even the best friend, and co-star passed Rogers Jr. (Dusty) remarked dur- pictures of endless crowds or wor- artistic doors were crafted to away in 1998, Dale Evans called ing the dedication ceremony, “that shipers, politicians, dignitaries, or remind you of their two special Chet Hitt, owner of the Sunset it was nice to find someone else celebrities because it wasn’t about Hills Memorial Park, and asked who shared the family’s respect them. It was about two of my him to promise to do her a favor. and fear of their mom.” Chet said childhood and adulthood heroes, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Most of us have some kind of story about our child- hood heroes. Sometimes if you are lucky, you get to carry that story full circle. To say it’s beautiful would be short sighted of me ...but even before I saw the sign, I could feel the warmth of their presence and the tran- quility they brought to oth- ers. Sunset Memorial Park is located at 24000 Waalew Road, Apple Valley Califor- nia. The panoramic views allow a full overlook of Lucerne Valley, Apple Valley, and Victorville with the Roy’s door. snow capped peaks of the Roy and Dale’s ga May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 33

lives. Skilled craftsmen captured the essence of Roy and Dale’s lives and their movies, in copper, that were so life-like you could envision the movies the images represented. The beautiful lighted Once inside the chapel, a huge tree complete with lights tree inside the awaits you, and there was the presence of constantly changing Chapel’s entrance. images of Roy and Dale on each wall. In the back meeting rooms and hallways, you would find more images representing the con- tributions to life Roy and Dale brought to a bygone era. Though it wasn’t hard to find anyone there who didn’t remember or appreci- ate all of those efforts. An auditorium with seating capacity of 300 complete with up to date video and computer technology was in full swing to pay tribute to Roy and Dale, and it was filled more than once by all those who ventured inside. So for many it was a time of closure, though I dare say I don’t think it will ever be for me. At least I was able to pay my overdue respects to these two larger than life legends. If you are a Cowboy Action Shooter, participant, lover of Westerns or the Cowboy way of life, then this is a must stop when in the area. To my and many others’ heroes, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, I bid you Vaya Con Dios, and “Happy Trails to you, until we meet arden plot area. again.” Entrance backdrop. Page 34 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

SASS CONVENTION 2007 – THE CATTLE BARON’S BALL Or, “A Gaudy Stream of Bespangled, Belaced, and Beruffled Barbarians”* By Ellsworth T. Kincaid, SASS Life #6037

Author note: I fancy myself a historian, swing, the Victorian era truly wealthy, some with not a clothier. Knowing some history became the definitive characteriza- little or no education. about the era when Cattle Barons tion of conspicuous consummation in Wealth of the period ruled supreme can give us a glimpse America. Great fortunes were creat- was underscored by the American (cattle empires) and enormous cattle into what was worn to these fancy balls. ed (and lost) during the period and a upper class’s opulent self-indulgence, herds in Colorado, , The sub-title is a hint . . . way of life was created that this where the social elite dominated Montana, and Texas brought innu- n his 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A wealth supported. American society. As wealth was cre- merable wealth to individuals. ITale of Today, Mark Twain coined On the East Coast were the ated, the merchant, banker, and cap- Millions of acres of land, and the the term that would define these super-rich industrialists like Andrew tain of industries cared less if their resources and raw materials below times from the period shortly after Carnegie and J. P. Morgan, and rail- occupations or lack of education were ground, were transferred into the the Civil War to near the turn of the road tycoons Jay Gould and “socially acceptable.” hands of cattlemen, railroads, and Century when there was an unprece- Cornelius Vanderbilt (critics called With the economic expansion of mining and land development com- dented rapid economic, industrial, them “robber barons” based on their the West, personal wealth was panies with laws passed by Congress. and population expansion. Railroad use of overpowering and sometimes acquired from the development of The production of iron and steel and and steamboat companies, factories, unethical financial manipulations), western natural resources and min- western resources like lumber, gold, banks, stores, mines, and the fertile and oil magnates like John D. eral exploitation. Well-defined exam- and silver increased the demand for lands west of the Mississippi grew Rockefeller, and entrepreneurs of ples are Nevada’s Comstock Lode improved transportation. Railroad dramatically in the United States. such magnitude that Europe was and Colorado’s Leadville silver dis- expansion boomed as trains moved With Western expansion in full appalled by America’s wealth and trict. Ownership of vast ranches (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 35

(Continued from previous page) ary in New York City for the rich, in goods from the resource-rich West to their stone and marble palaces on the East and, in combination with Fifth Avenue, to leave their curtains government land policies and the open on New Year’s Day so passers- breaking of the Plains Indians resist- by could see the grandeur of their ance in the 1870s and 1880s, the clothes and furnishings. trans-Mississippi West was opened In the West, it was difficult for for settlement and economic usage. the nouveaux rich to attain the social During this “Gilded Age,” standing their money would other- Americans who achieved wealth cel- wise provide in the East. But, they ebrated it as never before. In New were competitive with their fellow- York, the opera, the theatre, and lav- rich brethren on the East Coast. ish parties consumed the ruling Wealth was synonymous with class’ leisure hours. Sherry’s social status at the highest levels in Restaurant hosted formal horseback the United States, and the East dinners for the New York Riding Coast elite had established a com- Club. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish once mon view of the correct ways of being threw a dinner party to honor her a ‘lady’ or ‘gentleman’ – their “car- dog who arrived sporting a $15,000 riage, gait, address, gestures, voice, diamond collar. the ease, the self-possession, the As fabulous wealth came into power of conversing, the talent of not new hands, social status followed. offending, the lofty principles, the Americans acquired status symbols delicacy of thought, the happiness of such as enormous mansions on Fifth expression, the taste and propriety, Avenue, glittering jewelry, servants, the generosity and forbearance, the and ostentatious carriages. Their candor and consideration, the open- lifestyles moved away from the ness of hand.”* Also taken into con- industrious capitalist work-pattern sideration was the “nature of a man’s to fit around the aristocratic world of occupation, his education, his man- balls, theatres, and dinners. ners and breeding, his income, and Consumption in New York be- his connections all came into view in came more conspicuous and deca- determining whether he was, in the dent than anything previously seen narrow sense of the word, “a gentle- with certain items of expenditure, man.”* The number of people who such as the balls, the fine clothes, the considered themselves within the artwork, and the carriages forming ‘true social elite’ was rigidly small. an essential part of New York socie- In 1880 in America, the highest ty. For example, it became custom- (Continued on page 50) Page 36 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

SILVER SCREEN SALOON SHOW Coming to END of TRAIL 2007! By Miss Tabitha, SASS #26972

he Belle Union Saloon will be the the women and distract the men Thappening place to be this year from their poker games. at END of TRAIL. For two nights Peaches was only seven going on only—Friday and Saturday, June 22 eight when she made her first stage and 23—SASS is bringing to the appearance ... and even then nothing saloon stage colorful entertainment would do but that the spotlight as depicted on the Hollywood screen. encircle her shoulders like white This SILVER SCREEN SA- mink. This was the start of the leg- LOON SHOW, produced by River end of Peaches O’Day. And, from Crossing Inc., brings you songs and spotlights to diamonds, it was dances from various western movies Peaches who enticed everyone with such as Abilene Town, Calamity her “Come up and see me sometime.” Jane, Destry Rides Again, and more. the Silver Screen, professional per- Early on, she concluded girlfriends Step back in time and enjoy the former, Peaches O’Day (reminiscent were a waste of time, and since then, atmosphere of a smoky Old West of Mae West), will headline both she instead began collecting men, saloon where pretty ladies in beauti- evenings, singing her signature and a lot of diamonds that have ful costumes bring you a lively, sexy, songs such as “I’m No Angel” and stayed with her for keeps. fun show in the flavor of Hollywood’s “He’s a Bad Bad Man,” and enter- When the Glamour Era met the Silver Screen. taining you with her famous one-lin- Golden Age of cinema, it cast a spell From the dancing halls of old ers and not-so-subtle innuendos. on the public, and the key ingredient ’s Barbary Coast to the Her breathtaking wardrobe and to this glamour was personality. The gold fields of the Yukon and finally to famous figure will draw envy from (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 37

SILVER SCREEN SALOON SHOW . . . e e (Continued from previous page) END of TRAIL. careful and strategically molded Make your plans now for this image of Peaches O’Day started it all extravaganza with Peaches O’Day at MY … a siren persona on and off the END of TRAIL 2007 … COME ON screen you won’t want to miss. UP AND SEE HER … you’ll never Peaches will be ending her most forget her! As Peaches would say, recent stage production of “Under the “Mmm, honey, no one ever does!” HEROS Blue Moon” in June, and returning to (The part of Peaches O’Day will Hollywood to begin her next film. be played by Lonna Miller, a profes- By Denver Doc, SASS #1500 SASS is thrilled that on her way, she sional singer-entertainer. She has will be making a stop at Founder’s recorded many albums as well as My heros have always been Ranch to headline these shows. numerous local, regional, and cowboys, As part of her entourage, Peaches national commercials. For two con- Who ride the range all day. is bringing with her the Dancehall secutive years she placed first in the Round up cattle and chase Darlings Can-Can Dancers, who will professional songwriting and vocalist rustlers, Denver Doc, SASS #1500 literally “kick-off” the evening with a competition of Nashville’s Music City And keep other coyotes at bay. high-stepping, high-kicking, split- Song Festival, an international com- Just git into Cowboy Action dropping Can-Can the likes of which petition covering 50 states and 22 It must have been an exciting life, Shoots, the Belle Union has never seen. countries. Her recordings have cov- With its share of work and pain, With sixgun, shotgun, and rifle, Expect to be thrilled with the energy ered contemporary gospel, classic But if they were alive today, they,d Dress in the era of 1880s, and exuberance these young, pretty rock, and pop top 40. Her most recent say, It will sure give them an eyeful. dancers bring to the stage with num- country CD will be available at the “Why sure, I’d do it over again” bers specially choreographed for River Crossing booth.) It’s our time machine to the past, If y’all wish for a taste of that You get to relive those days once time, more, Just don’t give up hope as yet, Dressed the part with sixgun on VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT We can give you a bit of western your hip, flavor You wonder, “why didn’t I do this WWW.SASSNET.COM So don’t y’all sit and fret. before?” Page 38 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

Billy the Kid Breaks Out! By Bob Boze Bell, SASS #50,000

JULY 19, 1878 The Kid ready Fire is licking at the last room—Susan to make a break. McSween’s kitchen. In this final refuge, Alexander McSween sits with his head in his hands. His 12 defenders are crowded into this crumbling, tiny space, where the walls are too hot to touch and the air is heavy with smoke. The men are blackened, tired, thirsty and desperate, but they’ve decided to wait until dark before attempting to escape. Billy makes a miraculous escape, Housebound for nearly five days, surviving a hail of gunfire from Peppin’s men the 12 men in the McSween home shooting from behind the back wall. were holding their own until around 2 p.m. today, when one member of Sheriff George Peppin’s posse, Andrew Boyle, torched the northwest corner of the house. At approximately 9 p.m., five defenders, including Billy Kid, jump into the backyard and run toward a gate in the side yard. (One report says they are not wearing their boots or shoes.) Before they reach the gate, four Peppin men along the outside of the back wall Law student Harvey Morris gets it in the back as he opens the gate. The Kid returns fire, causing several of the Peppin men along the back wall to duck. This probably saves the lives of the other men with Billy. spot them and open fire. Law student Harvey Morris is shot dead at the gate. The remaining four, including Billy Kid, leap over his body and return fire as they race for the creek. Incredibly, they make it. McSween and another group of his besieged men make their move. But as they approach the east gate, just outside the shadow of the flames, the guns at the back gate explode, driving McSween and his men back. They stay in the corner Jumping over the lifeless body of Harvey Morris, “about five minutes” before making yet Billy Kid returns fire and dashes for the creek. another attempt, which also sends them scurrying back into the shadows. Gunshots and yells are heard from across the creek as the Kid and crew celebrate their hair-raising escape. Bob Boze Bell Ten grueling minutes pass. All the is the executive guns along the back wall are aimed at editor of True West the darkness. Finally, McSween magazine and the allegedly says, “I shall surrender.” author of six It is a ruse. McSween’s men shoot illustrated books one of the posse members. They back about the Old West. He writes a off and start shooting, killing all but one daily blog at in the McSween group. Thus ends the Robert Beckwith (right, foreground) aims into the darkness as he, Joseph Nash (second from right) and twmag.com Big Killing. “Dummy” move in to arrest McSween. It is all a desperate ruse as Beckwith is shot dead by a bullet in the eye. May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 39 J.B. Hickok Mercantile Prescott, Arizona Home of the World’s Oldest Rodeo

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WOMEN, GUNS, AND GEAR Match Preparation

By Holy Terror, SASS #15362

in a match: your guns might break, where people have been let down at to be happy! I personally take extra you might have a bad round, or the a match because their guns were so screws and parts for all my guns, weather might turn sour. Unfortu- dirty they stopped working! just in case. If worse came to worse, nately, there is nothing we can do It also helps to do some preven- you could probably borrow from Holy Terror, SASS #15362 about the weather, but there are tive maintenance before you leave. someone, but you will always feel many things you can do to prepare You always want to check important more secure if you know you have for a match and help ensure you’ll pieces to make sure they look OK. anything you might need. believe the absolute greatest part have a great experience. However, you can’t always see when The second major thing you want Iof Cowboy Action Shooting™ is First, it is always important your a part is going to break, so keep to do to prepare for a match is to attending the matches. It’s great to guns work well when you go to a track of when you change parts, and make sure you have good ammuni- go to a new place, to shoot different match. It’s horrible to go all the way you’ll get a better idea how long they tion. The three things about ammu- scenarios, to meet new people, and to to a match only to have your rifle last. This is especially important for nition you want to ensure are: you compete. There are so many great break down on the first stage! So, 1897 ejector and extractor parts. have it; it is reliable; and you have things about attending matches that the first thing I always do before Now that you have your guns the right kind. it is hard to choose a favorite. With going to a match is make sure my clean and in working order, you are When I say you actually want to that said, I have to admit there is guns work. I take them apart and almost ready to leave. Before you go, have your ammunition, that is pre- nothing worse than going to one of clean them. After I clean them, I make sure you have a couple of spare cisely what I mean. If you are trav- these great matches and have some- check them out one more time before parts to take with you. If you lose a eling a long way, you want to make thing go wrong. Now, there are any I leave to make sure they still work. ten-cent screw that keeps you from sure your ammunition arrives there, number of things that can go wrong I have seen numerous instances shooting the match, you’re not going (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 41

(Continued from previous page) the best materials, including brass. I too. If you are driving, it’s not a big know many people don’t like to use deal, but if you are flying, it can be a new brass if they go to a “lost brass” very big deal. Most airlines only match, but it would really “suck” to allow 11 pounds of ammunition, and spend a thousand dollars attending a it is required to be in the factory box. match and have your rifle jam up If you reload your own ammunition, over a seven-cent piece of brass! you can try using a plastic cartridge While reloading I watch every round box, but you never know what kind of to make sure it gets powder, and airline agent you will run into! This then spin each round through my makes it hard to bring the right kind pistol cylinder for a chamber and and correct amount of ammunition. high primer check. I know it sounds When I fly I always attempt to like a lot of work, but because of this, ship my ammunition before hand. I have had very few bad rounds. You can ship your ammunition to the My piece of ammunition advice is match if they will let you, or you can to make sure you have the right kind ship it to the hotel where you are of ammunition. You want to make staying. I believe all major shipping sure you will have ammunition to companies require you to ship your take down any knockdown targets ammunition ground, which will take you might run into. Knockdown tar- longer, so you want to make sure you gets are becoming very popular in leave plenty of time for it to arrive. many matches, but they are not Also, it is always a good idea to call always the same. When I travel, I and make sure it arrived, so if it was have three different types of rounds. lost, you can bring some on the plane I have my normal load, my heavy in an emergency. load, and then my really heavy load. If you plan on shipping, the last I do not want to go all the way to a thing I would suggest is to include match only to lose because I didn’t your shot shells in the shipment. I have a heavy enough round to knock know many people like to buy shot the targets down. So, when you go to shells when they get to where they a match, make sure you are prepared are going, but this can have serious ammunition wise. consequences. You can never guar- There are countless things that antee the stores in the area will have can go wrong in a match. Some you the kind of ammunition you want, or can control and some you can’t. that they will not be sold out by the Always remember, this sport is sup- time arrive. It is always better to posed to be fun. All of this advice is pay to have the ammo shipped than relative. Everyone is different and to get there and have no shot shells needs to prepare in his or her own way. to shoot! If you have questions about this When it comes to reliable ammu- article, or if you have an idea or prod- nition, I cannot stress this subject uct you think should be brought to enough. When I go to a match, I the attention of women shooters, or always load my ammunition as if I anyone else, then please email me at were going to a real gunfight. I use [email protected].

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YES, WE HAVE NO BANDANAS By Purdy Gear, SASS Life #33315

ably sensible. We were discussing one’s face while robbing banks, stage- the finer nuances of wearing the coaches, trains, or similar mischiefs. “wild rag” or cowboy neckerchief. My Or might they have been referring to end of the conversation centered its masking purposes in riding drag? around a trip to California where I How positively un-posh!! had encountered what could only be Now, to a certain degree, these known in SASS parlance as the were correct. I’ve looked The leather collar was carried “neckerchief police.” Note I avoided at a lot of scribblings, and most of Purdy Gear, SASS Life #33315 by such prestigious firms as calling them “bandana police” as, the real old-timers who wrote books RT Frazier and Heiser. It was according to them, the bandana was on the subject never called ‘em ban- available plain, stamped, or carved! es, we have no bandanas? One just a humble cotton rag favored by danas. They were neckerchiefs or Yof my shootin’ pards stood there railroad workers and farm hands for “wipes.” Some referred to scarves or functional. Andy Adams says this in grinnin’ at me with a coffee mug in blowing one’s schnoz or wiping sweat “mufflers” and others to “handker- “The Old-Time Cowhand”: “Folded his fist. I was beginning to regret from a brow or grease and grime in chiefs.” Many of these writers also diagonally, like the first garment he not buying that “Bang Head Here” similarly untidy endeavors. (“Cotton state the majority of cowboys wore ever wore, he tied the two farthest sticker for my bench top. Why did I for ‘blow,’” they said rather haughtily. cotton rather than silk—though silk corners in a square knot and hung it let him in here? Or maybe it was the “Silk for show.”) Furthermore, they was always more highly regarded, on the safest peg he knowed—his coffee? I was definitely going to have maintained, the proper term for that as it was cool in summer and warm neck. In this way he was never with- to do something about the coffee … silken piece of buckaroo haberdash- in winter. out it in case he needed it, and he Actually, up until that moment, ery was “mascada,” in reference to its The neckerchief, as most all of most generally did.” the conversation had been remark- occasional usefulness in covering the puncher’s clothing, was purely (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 43 (Continued from previous page) White was not highly regarded as it Adams goes on to say the necker- showed dirt in seconds. It was also chief was generally worn tied loosely, bright. Fellers who were riding the draped on the chest with the knot to “hoot owl” trail (desperados), or who the back. If the sun were particular- were trying to keep their hair or per- ly brutal, it would be reversed to pro- sonal pelts intact in unfriendly terri- tect the neck. Many argue the knot tory would have shied away from it, was always worn to the front and, if at least in the old days. As the times you look at photos, this is often so. got gentler and more peaceful, things But, many of these photos were got more colorful and all forms of made in studios or were posed prints, paisleys, and bright colors because cameras of the day required became popular. The Californians long, long exposures, and it was cus- still tell tales of modern buckaroos tomary to wear a neckerchief, neatly coming in out of high mountain line tied and knot forward for “steppin’ camps and buying the brightest out” or formalities. orange or screaming canary yellow Nor was the wipe always tied mascadas they could find simply with a square knot. While that was because all they’d seen that winter likely the most common knot used was white. because it lay flat, it would not have As trail drives faded to fenced been uncommon to see it tied with a ranges, many cowboys declined “four-in-hand,” same as regular wearing neckerchiefs. Collars re- “straight” ties. For downright fancy mained buttoned to the top for all occasions, it would have been tied occasions, and it was expected ties be with a complicated little knot that worn for a dance, wedding, or other divided the knot into 4 small formalities if you had one or could squares. The neckerchief, if large borrow one. Many shirts in those enough, could also be doubled around days had no collars and many a the neck and tied. This was done by puncher declined the paper or cellu- putting the triangle at your neck and loid collars of the day for fear of then wrapping the ends around to being laughed off the range. It also the front where they were tied. I’m made sense those types of collars not certain if this is a more modern didn’t make it into the cowboy’s stan- method of wearing the scarf or not. I dard wardrobe. Social engagements can tell you with certainty, it’s a good were far and few between and paper way to wear it for added warmth in or celluloid collars would get stuffed winter or if you have a scratchy, irri- into his “war bag” ending up rum- tating shirt or coat collar. pled, tattered, and dirty. The neckerchief could also be However, there was one type of tied into an “Alcatraz ascot” if a collar that would transcend such “necktie party” was called and no mischief—the leather collar. RT rope was convenient. However, it Frazier listed them, as did Heiser. was customary for only the guilty Fay Ward notes them in his book, party to be wearing such a knot for “The Working Cowboy’s Manual.” He that proceeding! maintains leather collars were not That humble piece of cloth served popular and probably when counted beyond protection from sun, dust, against paper or celluloid collars and wind. It made a dandy pothold- sold, yes, sheer numbers would have er or a glove for a hot branding iron, indicated this. In a waddy’s war bag, could be used as strainer to filter out however, it was a whole different mud from a watering hole, a tourni- world, and a leather collar made quet, bandage, or sling for a wound. sense. They didn’t show dirt, could It served as a piggin’ string for hog- be pulled out, reshaped, and be good tying cow critters, hobbles for a to go. If you’d had time to hit the horse, or a sack for toting biscuits or bathhouse, well … you were the king fresh berries. Men and women both of the plains and so downright were laid to rest when tragedy respectable even your best gal and struck along a trail with a necker- her horse couldn’t raise objections! chief placed over their face to keep Historically speaking, there are the dirt off. It was a handkerchief for plenty of options for appropriate sniffles, a wipe for a sweaty brow, a neckwear on the range. I’ve said signaling device, a towel for both you pert near all I know on the topic but, and your dishes, and served well for as usual, invite your comments or those occasions when a snorty bronc complaints. Gimme a holler at 706- needed blindfolding so you could get 692-5536, or at purdygear@wind in the middle of him. stream.net. You can also reach me For the old-timers, red was the through the link on the website color of choice for cotton or silk www.purdygear.com. scarves, followed by blue or black. See you on down the trail!

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COWBOY TRAP GUN By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life # 49907 TG Michigan

ast September we held our 8th the victorious winners. It LMichigan State Shoot over the says in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, Labor Day Weekend. Side matches “Two are better than one, were offered on Friday. One of my because they have a good favorite side events is Cowboy Trap. return for their work: If one We have access to a “Trap House” on falls down, his friend can the grounds. Most of us just use our help him up. But pity the short-barreled main match shot- man who falls and has no guns. Even with a little help from a one to help him up!” And proper choke tube, the shorter barrel indeed, Rattler was the often hampers appropriate swing greater half of our team. through. Let’s face it; most Cowboy The ‘87 worked very Action Shooting™ shotguns are not well for Cowboy Trap. Even designed to bag flying clay birds! with the short 18-1/2" bar- Shortly before our state shoot, I rel, my follow through felt received my long awaited ‘87 lever good. I used the modified shotgun from Coyote Cap Gunworks choke tube provided and with all embellishments. As I was AA Feather Lite #8 shot packing the covered wagon for loads. This combination , I wondered how it would resulted in well-ground work on the Cowboy Trap field. dust settled on the Team Event sec- round clays. Now, if I can only figure When the time came to manufacture tion, low and behold, my ol’ friend out how to load the blasted thing in powdered pigeons, the new ‘87 actu- and partner Riverview Rattler, SASS a timely fashion, I can start to use it ally worked quite well. When the #67025, and myself were declared in the main matches! May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 45

but it was not a success. In the end, is likely he reached more people with WILLIAM F. “BUFFALO BILL” CODY . . . Cody toured with the Sells-Floto this image in his 50 years of show- (Continued from page 31) West Show traveled most major Circus as a headline attraction. Cody manship than any other single per- Cheyenne warriors at The Little Big cities in the United States knew the time, his time, had past. son. While it may not have been his- Horn in June of 1876. The timing was perfect. Histo- America was a changing place. torically objective by today’s stan- It was shortly after the Custer rians Elen Flexor and Ellen The census of 1890 officially stated dards, it offered a glimpse of a life Battle that Cody would temporarily Fitzpatrick tell us about the times. there was no longer a “frontier line” and times the spectators would never leave his show, and begin his last During the last twenty years of the as the 19th Century historian know first hand. scouting expedition for the Army. Nineteenth Century, America was Frederick Jackson Turner main- In my mind’s eye, Buffalo Bill still During this expedition with Colonel undergoing an industrial revolution. tained in his “Frontier Thesis in rides across the vast, rolling, trackless Westly Merrit, Cody, and the cavalry Immigration was swelling the east- 1893.” The West was gone. Labor and grassy plains on Buckskin Charlie. pursued the Sioux in the area of War ern and mid-western cities to over- big business were battling each other His goatee protrudes from his leath- Bonnet Creek. On July 17th, 1876 flowing, overtaxing their infrastruc- with heated strikes such as the ery sun-tanned chin, a broad- Cody engaged in one-on-one combat tures. Settlement house like Jane Pullman and Homestead Steel brimmed felt sombrero is perched with the Sioux Chief, Yellow Hand. Addam’s “Hull House” sought to strikes. Women were fighting the jauntily atop his head of long blonde When Cody killed Yellow Hand, he improve the plight of the masses. continuing battle for the vote. hair. His fringed buckskins are scalped the chief and is said to have The West probably seemed to be a America was expanding overseas stained and dusty, and his favorite .50 shouted, “The first scalp for Custer!” magic place with clean air, bountiful into the Pacific and Asia. Teddy caliber buffalo rifle is cradled in the After the expedition, Cody game, huge mountains, and wild Roosevelt was attacking big business crook of his arm as he rides off into returned to the stage. Cody was now Indians. People by the tens of thou- and big trusts. It was a different the mists of the dim horizon. 31 years old. On his last expedition sands would flock to see the Wild world. As Cody’s sister, Helen Cody Adios, Buffalo Bill! with the cavalry, he found the West West Show. This experience was the Wetmore, said, “The story of the fron- was changing. Considering the suc- closest most would ever get to the tier is a tale that is told. The Wild * * * cess of dime novels about the West West. This experience was “The Wild West has vanished like a mist in the Sources: and Cody’s stage play, people seemed West” to most people. sun before the touch of two great Cody, William F. The Life of Buffalo to be hungry for the West. The play In March 1886, Buffalo Bill magicians of the nineteenth century Bill. Hartford, Conn.: F.E. Bliss, was successful, and gave Cody money Cody’s Wild West Show made its first – steam and electricity.” 1879. to buy a palatial estate In Rochester, trip to Europe. Cody took the entire William Frederick Cody died on DeSantis, Vincent. The Shaping of New York. Cody, however, wanted show, Cowboys, Indians, horses, buf- January 10th, 1917. The Western Modern America. Wheeling, Ill: more. He missed the “old days” and falo, longhorns, , and all Historian, Denis McLoughlin, said Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2000. filled up his house with his partners on the chartered steamer “State of the headlines of his death wiped Flexor, Elen and Ellen Fitzpatrick, from the past. He knew the West Nebraska” to England. The show away the usual headlines of the war Century of Struggle. would soon be gone; it was an era was a tremendous success and ran in Europe. Buffalo Bill Cody was Cambridge, Mass: drawing to a close. Cody loved the continuously in England for almost a buried on Lookout Mountain, Belknap Press, 1996. West. He wanted to share that era year, closing on May 1, 1887. Queen Colorado under a bronze statue of McLoughlin, Denis. Wild and with everyone through an expanded Victoria and many of the crown him, atop his horse Buckskin Woolly. New York, NY: Barnes Wild West Show. He wanted to cre- heads of Europe attended. Cody and Charlie, depicting him in the prime & Noble, 1975. ate a grand pageant that would bring the Wild West show returned tri- of his life. He had now faded into the Turner, Frederick Jackson The the west alive. Cody’s sister, Helen umphantly to the United States mists of history just as his beloved Frontier in American History. Cody Wetmore says it best. She said The show once again toured the Wild West had. Florida: Robert E. Krieger Cody wanted to present the public major cities of the United States. It There is no way to measure how Publishing. 1985. “the actual history of the West, as it was a small village of about 600 hun- many hundreds of thousands, or even Wetmore, Helen Cody, Buffalo Bill, was lived for, fought for, and died for, dred cowboys, Indians, and showmen how many millions of people Buffalo Last of the Great Scouts. by Indians, pioneers, and soldiers.” moved by train and wagon from town Bill Cody’s Wild West Show touched. (Stamford, Conn: Longmeadow, His first “Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild to town. In subsequent years, the For the last fifty years of his life he 1899. West Show” debuted in Omaha, show took several more trips to was a legend, synonymous with the * * * Nebraska in 1883, an extravaganza Europe. The crowds at the perform- Wild West. Still today, there is prob- of “real” Cowboys, Indians, horses, ances were huge. Buffalo Bill Cody ably not a school age child that does- buffalo, stagecoaches, wagons, and his Wild West Show entertained n’t at least know something about teepees, and US Cavalry. The parade under varying names until 1913. Buffalo Bill Cody. Even though his For of the grand entrance was a specta- However after 1903, the show’s busi- legend of his life grew beyond its cle. There were stagecoach rob- ness started to decline. Even after it reality, the real deeds of his life are AD Rates beries, trick riders, Indian battles, closed down, Cody decided to use the still truly amazing. He achieved his and herds of cattle and buffalo pur- new media of motion pictures to goal to spread the image of the West, ~ DONNA ~ sued around the arena. Between reach people. He formed the “Cody at least as he saw it, to the entire (EXT. 118) 1883 and 1886, Buffalo Bill’s Wild Historical Pictures Company in 1913, country, and even the entire world. It Page 46 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

COLT TO THE RESCUE By Ioway, SASS Life #214

uick!” she shouted. “Bring me the shotgun Qfrom the wall. There’s an Indian coming to “our unprotected side!” Once my grandmother’s grandmother had the Colt in her hands, she thumbed back the right barrel’s hammer and shot out the shooting port in the log wall. As the men folks were away getting provisions, the women and children were left to defend the cabin they were holed up in. The body was dumped down a dry well so it would not be found and cause anoth- er Indian attack to occur. This incident is part of my family’s legacy, as they had come down the Ohio River on a flatboat and proceeded west to new land and a new future. While most individuals think Remington, Ioway with his TTN Colt replica Ithaca, L. C. Smith, or Parker when the term dou- 1878 shotgun … all set for a ble barrel shotgun is brought up, the Colt shotgun Cowboy Action match! was on par with the Parker. The Colt 1878 ham- mered, Damascus shotgun was equal with the Parker as a high quality, hand built, high-grade shotgun built from 1878 until 1891. The Colt was a top line shotgun with each shotgun being hand assembled. Due to the hand fitting, parts do not interchange from one shotgun to another. For instance, I have a set of 1878 10-gauge barrels that need a receiver, and to date, I have not found one. A skilled gunsmith is needed to keep the old guns functioning. George Weiland of Truesdale, Iowa is mine. I like even my wall hangers to be mechani- cally functional. The shotguns were available in eight grades (based upon my factory letters that list two of my guns as grade 8). Upon visiting with Kathleen Hoyt (Colt’s Historian), she told me the records do not exist that explain what denotes each grade. The shipping records that exist and the guns that have been examined matching those records tell us the grade number is not just about engrav- ing, but is also about the type and grade of wood, and the fit and polishing of the gun. Case hardening was also present on the were in 1878, a $50 shotgun was a very shotgun receivers. The accompanying pho- expensive firearm. tographs of my personal shotguns are of two The stocks were available in grade 8’s, a grade 5, and a grade 2. One of English or Circassian walnut and sup- the grade 8’s cost $2.25 engraved in 1882. It plied in any style desired by the cus- is fully engraved in scrolls and swirls. The tomer (according to the Webster dic- other grade 8 engraved cost $1.75 in 1880. tionary Circassian walnut is a light Other grade 8’s may have American ani- brown irregularly black-veined wood mals on their frames. While in Las Vegas of the English walnut). The guns this past year, I asked the representative of could be ordered with a varnished or Little John’s Auction Company if he had oil-rubbed finish. Sometimes a hard- ever seen a Colt shotgun that did not have rubber butt plate was used, with a barrels of Damascus steel. He told me all Rampant Colt design on it, but iron Colt shotguns are Damascus steel, even butt plates were most common. The though the finish on the Colt barrels may butt stock on the bottom had an oval look as though they are not Damascus. silver plate for initials or name. This The Colt 1878 shotgun was available in 10 and Barrels were offered in twist, fine, laminated, and oval silver plate is present on all I own or have 12 gauge. While the standard barrel lengths were Damascus, with the Damascus available in blued seen at gun shows and auctions. 28", 30", and 32", the guns were ordered with bar- or browned finish. The price started at $50 for a The shotgun barrels were manufactured in rel lengths of 18, 26, 27, 28, 29, 29-1/2, 30, 31, 32, twist barrel, no engraving, and a straight stocked Belgium and shipped to Colt in New Haven. If the 33, and 34 inches (R.L. Wilson, The Book of Colt shotgun. Each variation added $5; i.e., 1/2 grip buyer requested, Colt would provide the target Firearms, p. 483). Colt would build a gun with any checkered—$55; Fine barrel, line engraved, with the gun’s shot pattern and a guarantee the specifications the customer wanted. Most had case straight stock—$55; 1/2 grip—$60; and on up to gun would shoot the pattern supplied. Certainly, hardened locks, breech, and front-end mountings. $75 (Colt’s 1890 catalog). Considering what wages (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 47

(Continued from previous page) ceased production in 1895. As with the beginning, TTN International Notes: this denoted the high quality and the hammered 1878, the guns were had some problems with a California My Colt 1878 #3891 was shipped to workmanship that went into the offered in 12 gauge and 10 gauge. distributor, but these two new distrib- New York on September 2,1880, 1878 Colt shotguns, which ceased Many of the stagecoach and express utors have excellent reputations of with a standard horn tip forend; production in 1889. company guards, law enforcement getting product to their dealers. a 29" barrel; engraved @ $1.75; The average weight of the 12 officers, and hunters preferred the Walt put together a case hardened Grade 8; 12 gauge. gauge was 7-1/2 pounds; whereas, 10 gauge shotgun because of the 1878 for me that is wonderful. As Colt 1878 #7917 was shipped in the 10 gauge weighted in at 11-1/2 added range and increased number usual, I sent the shotgun to my gun- 1881 with a brass tip forend pounds. The 10 gauge was used for of pellets in the shell. smith, George Weiland, and had an and in 10 gauge. duck and goose hunting and also for In the accompanying photos are 1878 silver dollar inlet in the stock, Colt 1878 #12986 was shipped to law enforcement work. America’s some of my several hundred 10 the chambers polished more, and Boston, MA on October 2, 1882 pioneers brought a mix of gauges gauge shells (both brass and paper) relieved so the AAs will fall out of the with a horn tip forend; a 28" with them out west. During this and also 12 gauge shells. In the chambers when the double barrel is barrel; full engraved @ $2.25; time period, the Colt and Parker 1880’s, the shells were brass and tipped up, and the gun gone through Grade 8; 12 gauge. shotguns were equal in outstanding paper and loaded with blackpowder. so it is ready for cowboy competition. Colt 1878 #15995 was shipped to quality, design, and materials. John The 10 gauge shells were 2-5/8" long Walt told me the 1878 TTN has many Philadelphia, PA on August 25, Blickhan, another Colt collector, told and the 12 gauge were 2-1/2" long. SASS championships to its credit. As 1883 with a horn tip forend, me he had acquired a “club” shotgun, Because of the role Colt played in a fellow Iowan, Gary Owen (Pike) of special feature “extended rib”; a new in the box. In the 1880’s shoot- American history, TTN International EMF or AcuSport will see you get one 30" barrel; Grade 5; 12 gauge. ing clubs existed on the east coast. had a factory in China manufacture a for your shooting battery. Colt 1883 #1264 was shipped in Just as today’s golf courses have golf modern, high quality Colt reproduc- R. L. Wilson stated in his book 1885 in 10 gauge. clubs for rent should a traveler want tion shotgun with good black walnut The Book of Colt Firearms, America’s Works Consulted to play a round of golf, so did the stocks. When I visited with Walt at finest quality production shotguns Serven, James E. Colt Firearms shooting clubs have guns that could TTN International, he told me the were the Parker and the Colt 1878 from 1836. Harrisonburg, PA; be rented. Many of these “club” guns guns were exact part for part with the and 1883 double barrel shotguns. In Stackpole Books; 1979. were Colts, and John Blickhan was 1878 Colt except for the hammers, 1878, the hammer Colt shotgun was T.T.N. Model 1878 Coach Gun. fortunate enough to acquire a new and they chamber 3” 12 gauge shells. the most expensive item in the Colt Instruction Manual. Laguna and unused one in its original ship- The original Colt hammers rested on line. The 1878 was called the “prince” Hills, CA, 2006. ping box. the shell’s primer when not cocked, of the Colt line, and the 1883 ham- Wilson, R. L. The Book of Colt As with the Single Action Army but the new TTN International shot- merless model the “king.” Having a Firearms. Minneapolis; Blue revolver and the Lightening rifle, the gun has rebounding hammers, so the TTN International replica certainly Book Publications, Inc.; 1993. Colt shotgun played a vital role in hammer does NOT rest on the shell’s adds to a shooter’s battery of histori- _____. Fine Colts: The Dr. Joseph A. America’s history. In 1883 (accompa- primer. This is for safety. The excel- cal firearms. I am glad I bought a Murphy Collection. nying photo), Colt offered a high- lent distributors, AcuSport and EMF, modern replica so I can enjoy shooting Doylestown, PA; Sheffield grade hammerless shotgun, which distribute these 1878 shotguns. In an 1878. You will enjoy yours, too. Marketing Assoc. Inc.; 1999. Page 48 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

TIMELY FASHION By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907

Psalms, Chapter 90, Verse 12, “Teach acquaintances. us to number our days aright, that The pocket watch and chain have we may gain a heart of wisdom.” I a good silver plate. The cover has an try to do everything in the guidance original Morgan Silver Dollar insert- and wisdom of God. It turned out ed in it, and opens up to show the dial this pocket watch’s numbers add up by pushing a button on the stem. The and was a wise purchase. works are battery powered. I re- The watch is four years old now, placed the battery after two years of keeps very good time, and is quite fashionable. It has been part of my attire in almost every match I’ve shot in since By Cree Vicar Dave, I bought it, along with Church SASS Life #49907 going and other festive Territorial Governor, Michigan affairs. The silver finish still looks great. I started wearing frock coats and vests for dress ince 2003 I have sported a a couple years ago when my constant run, but it would SMorgan Silver Dollar pocket wardrobe needed renewal. As have lasted a little longer. watch. After spotting the watch a result, I get a number of The other day I called advertisement in The Cowboy Chronicle, complements on the outfits. “The Great American West I decided to order one. It looked It gives me a chance to talk Company” (Located near impressive, and at the price of $90, I about the Lord and Cowboy Founders Ranch) to see about couldn’t resist. It says in the Book of Action Shooting™ with new (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 49

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ADVERTISING INFORMATION ASK FOR ~ DONNA ~ (EXT. 118) Page 50 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007 SASS CONVENTION 2007 – THE CATTLE BARON’S BALL . . . OFF THE WALL (Continued from page 35) despite their alleged lack of social social spheres remained exclusive. A graces and pedigree. Gun Carts group in New York was even known How better to flaunt one’s newly as “The Four-Hundred.” acquired riches than an annual ball? The women in the West knew They christened them the ‘Cattle Suited for the Rowdiest High Society in New York was con- Baron’s Ball’ to trumpet their man- Cowboys & Cowgirls spicuously expensive. They had read ner of wealth. If the hauteur in New 224 N. Howard St. of the “constant round of brilliant York thought of them as barbarians, Greentown, Indiana 46936 banquets, afternoon teas, and recep- then By God, they would provide a tions ... beautiful women and brave steady, “gaudy stream of bespangled, Tel: (765) 628-2050 men threading the mazes of the belaced, and beruffled barbarians”* dance; scenes of revelry by night in an for all to witness … and demonstrate Fax: (765) 628-1899 atmosphere loaded with the perfume they, too, knew how to be rich! of rare exotics, in the swell of sensu- Cattle Baron’s Balls were held in “The Ultimate Gun Cart for C.A.S.” ous music. Soon nothing remained Cheyenne, Wyoming (17th Street Now a SASS for the wives of the Western million- was called Cattle Baron Row); Affiliated aires but to purchase a brownstone Denver, Leadville, and Georgetown, Merchant mansion, and swing into the tide of Colorado; and San Antonio and Fort fashion with receptions, balls, and Worth, Texas to name a few. It didn’t Gunther Cartwright kettledrums, elegant equipages take long before the oil and railroad SASS Life Member #20136 (horse-drawn carriages) with coach- barons, the bankers and capitalists men in bright-buttoned livery, foot- from the East Coast, rubbed elbows men in top-boots, maid-servants and with the Cattlemen. 7 Cart styles man-servants, including a butler, and Envision top hats and cowboy all the other adjuncts of fashionable hats, tuxedo-clad and buffalo-coated 3 Species of wood life in a great metropolis.”* gentlemen entering the popular It appeared to the women in the Hotel de Paris in Georgetown, 7 Wheel options West plenty of people knew how to Colorado (the second largest city in get money; but … to be rich properly the state at the time, owing to the sil- 2 Wagons was, indeed, a fine art, an art they ver-mining boom) or the Driskill intended to bring to the West. Hotel in Austin, Texas with their 2 New Sheriffs Rack These self-made businessmen ladies affixed at their arms. They and their wives, the so-called nou- enter and nod toward one another: E-mail: [email protected] veaux rich, intended to be granted John Chisum, meet Jay Gould (rail- www.guncarts.com Tornado Ali entry into the highest social circles, road tycoon). Erasmus Nagle

(Cheyenne Cattle Baron), meet aire whether it be a railroad man, General Grenville M. Dodge (rail- oilman, industrialist, or cattleman. road man and politician). Entering Keep in mind, by 1892 there were now is Silas Seymour, Sidney Dillon, over 4,000 millionaires in the and Thomas C. Durant (the Union United States, and at the end of the Pacific’s driving force) and their century, 10 per cent of the families wives asking for Buffalo Bill Cody’s owned some three-quarters of the autograph (yes, they were fascinated national wealth. and enthralled with celebrities even Have fun with the Cattle Baron’s then). People traveled for hundreds Ball and your persona. Remember, and thousands of miles to attend a with this Ball we celebrate our cow- Cattle Baron’s Ball. boy ancestry; but not some run-of- Were these Western “barbarians” the-mill cowboy. We celebrate the competitively dressed? Unquestion- self-made Cattle Baron and his high ably! Allow the social-elitist Eastern society-loving wife. women to arrive better dressed, i.e., * Donald Stark Essay, “How and appear wealthier, than the women of why has the relationship between the West? Unthinkable! With their the generation of wealth and social social status rivalry in the late status varied between societies?” 1880s, this division of class between the expanding West and influential * Also: East Coast defined the word ‘bling’ Time Life “The Old West” – long before it became a fashion-word “The Railroads” in the 20th and 21st century. Wikipedia Encyclopedia, The Gilded So there you have it … dress as Age, Wikipedia.org though you intend to be received and America’s Library, The Gilded Age, accepted by the social elite of New Americaslibrary.gov York City—yards of silk, lace, and American History, The Gilded Age, ribbon, bedecked with jewelry, and americanhistory.about.com accompanied by a self-made million- PBS.org, Gilded Age

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WHAT DIGITAL FORMAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU … RAW, TIFF, OR JPG? Choosing the right settings for your Cowboy Action Shooting™ Digital Camera

By Mark Quigley

his article is for you digital cow- OK now let me give you some Tboy camera users. We are often tips on how you can use the differ- asked what setting we use for our ent formats. photography. I will try to answer Now that you know the above that below and provide you with information, always ask yourself … some tips at the end. what do I intend to do with the pho- Cowboy Action Shooters these tograph? days are given many choices for I want the highest quality selecting file formats in which to photo I can get? Shoot in RAW. save your images. The most popular Am I going to just make formats are JPEG, TIFF and RAW prints? JPG will be fine as long as RAW… Raw files are so named you stay 11x14 and below. because they are not yet processed Use them to Email to others? (like unprocessed food) and ready to JPG will be fine. Do not use TIFFs be used or RAW for emailing. As far as versatility and quality Am I going to send images on Shooting an ad photo in Scottsdale, AZ. This image needed to be a TIFF. goes, the RAW file is the way to go. Why? Read on cowfolks. to Tex and Cat at The Cowboy RAW files contain huge amounts of Canon Mark 2 N, Lens 70 – 200 f2.8 IS lens, ISO 250, F45. Chronicle for an article? SASS information and allow for the most accepts JPGs for The Cowboy versatility when it comes time to slow when photographing. They problem with JPG’s is they continue Chronicle and prefers 6 megapixils work your image in an image-edit- also slow your computer down to lose quality each time you save or more in size. Put them on a CD. ing program. But having said that, because of their size. The good them, rotate them, or change them. Images selected for publication will RAW files also take the most work thing is they maintain their quality, Soon, you end up with a poor quali- be converted to TIFFs, For ads they to get a great-looking image and are and many magazines want them ty photo. Here is a tip around this do in other publications they want very large files. these days. if you want to photograph in JPG. TIFFs. TIFF … Tag(ged) Image File JPG … Short for Joint Photo- As soon as you download your Use them in an ad? Many ad Format graphic Experts Group, the original images from your camera, burn agencies want TIFFs or RAW. Ask Not all digital cameras will offer name of the committee that wrote them to a CD ROM and you will them what they prefer. saving TIFF’s as a choice. TIFF the standard. have a permanent copy. Think of Use them to make large files will always be higher quality JPG files will always be smaller the CD as the old negative when it prints 12x18 or larger? Use than JPEGs, but less than RAW. than TIFF’s. They take up less comes to film. When working with TIFFs for this at your custom labs. The main problem with TIFF files is room on a filmcard and don’t slow JPG’s in the computer, use the CD I hope I answered your ques- that they are very large in size, your camera down. They also don’t so you won’t degrade the image and tions on this subject. which will cause your camera to slow down your computer. The then save it once. Shoot well and stay safe.

May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 57 WINTER RANGE COSTUME CONTEST 2007 By Parson Swede, SASS #32104

ll the glamour and glory wasn’t Working Costume Contest Best Dressed Contest Junior Holster Holliday, Alost to the firing line. It seems Winners Winners SASS #70365 every year Winter Range attendees Lady Pinto Annie, Lady Miss Chif Laura, Sutler Sheriff E. M. Horton, take costuming to a new level, and SASS #27966 SASS #63384 SASS #757 L Sutler Charmin Deb, this year was no exception. Man Rye Creek Robert, Gentleman Samuel B. Carpenter, SASS #35504 There were so many superbly SASS #18503 SASS #34043 Jr. Girl Sugar Cookie, Couple Brazoria John, We want to give a special thank dressed people this year judging SASS #71327 SASS #39254, & you to our panel of five judges. They was the most difficult our judges Junior Dust Devil Wyatt, Green Eyed Gal, worked tirelessly the entire week- have ever seen. SASS #72483 SASS #52442 end. Border Agent, Brighton Belle, Our panel of five judges used the The evening costuming was full B-Western Ima Lee, Ma Quigley, Coosie, and Pea Patch. same judging process as last year, of originality, style, and many great SASS #55585 Thanks to all of you for a job well Military Diamonds Dawson, taking digital photos of shooters stories all the judges enjoyed. done. and viewing them on a computer. SASS #10859 Every judge was able to see every Jr. Girl Sundance Sam, contestant chosen. SASS #69143 BEST DRESSED COSTUME CONTEST WINNERS

WORKING COSTUME CONTEST WINNERS Page 58 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

Winter Range SASS National Mounted Shooting Championship By Cinnamon Lucy, SASS Life/Regulator #14014 Photos by Quigley Photography and the Buffalo Range Riders

Buffalo Range Riders Mounted Club Thursday saw the arrival of the few problems with equipment failure of Edgewood, NM, produced the bulk of the Mounted Shooters to the that was quickly remedied with the Cinnamon Lucy, match with Nuevo Mike and Mounted Camp area near the arena. purchase of a new compressor and SASS Life #14014 Cinnamon Lucy as Match Directors. Many arrived in time to register and borrowing a stereo and I-Pod. Thank Everything was perfect for a chal- sign up to participate in the Fun goodness Home Depot was right lenging, fun-filled, and suspenseful Shoot that started at 1:00PM. The across the street from Ben Avery! hoenix, AZ – The SASS Natio- event. Even Mother Nature decided Fun Shoot gave the Mounted Shoo- After the Fun Shoot, everyone Pnal Mounted Shooting Cham- she would let the sun shine, which ters an opportunity to size up the cleaned up and either went into town pionship was held March 7th gave us perfect riding and shooting other competitors and to get the or stayed for the Mounted Camp through 11th at Ben Avery Shooting weather. There was no rain on our kinks worked out with their form Potluck. There was lots of food for Range just outside Phoenix, AZ. The parade this year at Winter Range! and riding skills. There were also a (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 59 big tent for our awards ceremony. Anticipation was in the air since the competition was so close for Overall and Division winners. There were buckles for overall and full divisions, a three-inch concho scarf slide for other divisions, and 16-inch ribbons for 2nd and 3rd places. Congratu- lations to all the winners and espe- cially to Buffalo Range Riders Sierrita Slim, Mac the Knife, and Buckskin Doc who swept the Men’s Divisions 1, 2, and 3.

Winners Overall Man & Match Winner Top Man and Lady Expressman, SASS National Mounted Shooters SASS #41513 at Winter Range 2007— Lady Seaside Cindy, Expressman and Seaside Cindy. SASS #74695 Spirit of the Game recipient—Morning Dove. Ignoring initial adversity, Division 1 Sierrita Slim, (Continued from previous page) she campaigned on, turning in excellent ride after excellent ride SASS #4054 everyone, including a Chili Cook-Off throughout the match. Division 2 Mack the Knife, Contest. The entries were Doc SASS #58658 Drillem with a chicken chili, Nuevo School began blowing up the balloons Division 3 Buckskin Doc, Mike with a green chili, Dan Nabbit for the match. Nuevo Mike called for SASS #44596 Division 4 Saddle Burr, with beef and cornbread chili, and the Riders Safety Meeting, and after SASS #8515 Lefty Lemoigne with beans and beef rules and regulations were outlined, Division 5 Expressman on chili. Everyone tasted each delec- the match resumed. Jasmine table dish and voted for their favorite. Riders and horses were ready to Junior Rustic Rose, Nuevo Mike’s chili won hands down. put the final shots on the next three SASS #74697 Congratulations to all participants! stages. Everyone rode through each L Division 1 Starlite Rose, Friday morning there was an air stage determined they would come SASS #74772 of excitement and anticipation in the out on top at the end of the competi- L Division 2 Seaside Cindy mounted camp. Horses were whinny- tion. However, the best ride was L Division 3 Elizabeth Drago, SASS #71538 ing to each other, sensing it’s going to Morning Dove, Junior rider from L Division 4 Rowdy Sue, be a busy day of hard work for them. Artesia, New Mexico. The day before SASS #74625 Local Mounted Shooters began her horse, Dude, decided to go in cir- L Division 5 Outlaw Annie, pulling in with their rigs and sad- cles on the very first stage giving her SASS #14042 dling up. After the arena was a 99.9 second score. Morning Dove L S Limited Ima Loping, watered and groomed, (thanks to then ran the next five stages with SASS #65879 New River Rider doing a great job such precision and accuracy she S L Limited Calamity Lil, with his drag and tractor), riders shaved 60 seconds off her time and SASS #11 began warming up for the big match. came up close on the heels of her S Limited Nasty Ned Pepper, SASS #29025 The Riders Meeting was held and competitors. She knew she was out S Open William Bruce, match safety rules and logistics out- of the running for a buckle, but SASS #5 lined. The Pledge of Allegiance was instead of quitting, she kept on com- Best Dressed played, the timers were checked and peting, demonstrating the true Spirit Cowgirl Gatling Lady, calibrated again, and The SASS of the Game. We all could learn SASS #55731 National Mounted Shooting Cham- something from this young competi- Cowboy Lefty Lemoigne, pionship was under way, literally tor who is the future of Mounted SASS #43122 Match Directors, Cinnamon Lucy Best Performance Horse with a bang! Speed and precision and Nuevo Mike, reveled in the Shooting. shots occurred on each stage. Of On Sunday the Awards Cere- Oakey Dokey excellent weather, excellent turnout, (Buffalo Rider) course, there were missed balloons, a mony was to be held in the Ben Avery excellent competition, and exciting Spirit of the Game Morning Dove, few dropped guns, two lost horse- finish for SASS’ National Mounted arena, but the wind and dust was SASS #7889 shoes, and many clean stages. The Shooting Championship. blowing so hard we retreated to the horses were fast, and each shot fired was faster to keep up with these well- SASS National Mounted Shooting trained equines as they rounded bar- Championship sponsors donated rels, sometimes on one hoof, and many of the prizes – Thank You! You swept through balloon gates like made our Mounted Shooters very bolts of lightening! The spectators happy. Thanks also to Buffalo Blanks, watching the match and armed with sponsor and provider of the match’s cameras were constantly changing Mounted Shooting blanks. There their positions along the arena look- were many long shots made that day ing for that perfect shot of horse and with these blackpowder blanks from rider. Others watched in awe as Nuevo Mike’s newly formed business. Level 1 through Level 5 riders and Great Job! Junior Riders raced through the Saturday morning began with a courses of fire, leaving no balloon beautiful Arizona sunrise that prom- prisoners. By the end of this first day ised another great day of Mounted of competition, there were many Shooting competition. The arena was leaders whose times were barely prepared, and Buffalo Range Riders ahead of their closest competitor. Range Officers, Buckskin Doc and After the match, the Mounted Sierita Slim, put the finishing touch- Shooters were able to draw for their es on the next stages to be run. prizes in the mounted prize pool. The Balloon setters from AAEC Charter Page 60 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY LITTLE KNOWN FAMOUS PEOPLE 1850’s WAY OUT WEST – By Joe Fasthorse Harrill, SASS #48769 Joe Fasthorse Harrill, May SASS #48769 May CHRIS MADSEN served on the Hanging Judge’s (Isaac Charles Parker) roster of U.S. By Ellsworth T. Kincaid, Deputy Marshals in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Life/Regulator #6037 whose job was to police the lawless Oklahoma Territory in the 1880’s. Madsen was a Danish soldier of fortune 25 May 1850 The New Mexican Territory Convention adopts a state constitution who had been a member of the French establishing its boundaries and prohibiting slavery. Foreign Legion in Africa and fought 29 May 1850 At the Battle of Agua Dulce, Texas Rangers engage Otto Cuero’s shoulder-to-shoulder with the Italian Comanches. rebel Garibaldi, before coming to th 4 May 1851 A 5 fire destroys 70% of San Francisco – greater than all earlier America in the 1870’s. He joined the US fires combined. Cavalry and fought his way west in the 6 May 1851 The Nation opens its men’s seminary (high school) near war against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Park Hill in eastern Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The provide all the funding for the school. The female seminary opens other fierce Plains Indian tribes the next day. before becoming a lawman. Chris was 15 May 1851 “Calamity” Jane is born; Princeton, Missouri. one of the famous triumvirate christened the “Oklahoma Guardsmen,” 12 May 1853 Pickled in whiskey, the head of Joaquin Murrieta and the hand of which cleared the Indian Territory of outlaws in the 1890’s. “Three-Fingered” Jack goes on national tour. 17 May 1853 California Rangers are organized and commanded by Captain Harry 12 May 1858 Colonel John S. “Rip” Ford with 100 Texas Rangers, along with Love, former Texas Ranger and Indian fighter. Colonel Albert Sidney and his Second Cavalry, and Chief Placido and 17 May 1853 Fort Riley army base is established in Kansas. his 111 Tonkawas attack Buffalo Hump’s Comanches in the Antelope 19 May 1853 The Democratic administration of Franklin Pierce begins negotia- Hills on Canadian River in Indian Territory. Chief Po-hebit-squash, tions with Mexico to purchase land along the southern border of the “Iron Jacket,” seventy-five Comanches, and two Rangers are killed. New Mexico Territory. The United States wants the strip for a pro- 12 May 1858 Jack Powers/Pio Linares Gang attack Rancho San Juan Capistrano, posed railroad route from Texas to California. killing two men and raping the foreman’s wife. 26 May 1853 John Wesley Hardin is born in Bonham, Texas, son of Methodist 17 May 1858 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Steptoe and his expedition leave Fort preacher. Walla Walla in SE Washington in search of hostiles. With 158 sol- 11 May 1854 In an effort to end the fighting in the Walker War in southern Utah, diers and thirty civilian volunteers, they encounter hundreds of Paiute Chief Walkara and Utah Governor meet in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene Indians. The Battle at Steptoe Butte Juab County, Utah. The meeting ends the ongoing fighting, though takes place thirty miles south of present-day Spokane. Steptoe’s the fighting will resume later. forces are forced to retreat and fight a running battle. Many lives 30 May 1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act is signed by President Pierce after pass- are lost on both sides. ing the House and Senate. This act established two territories, with 20 May 1858 Reverend Pierre De Smet leaves St. Louis and goes west, serving as the settlers to decide the slavery issue. At the time, the Kansas chaplain for an army expedition. Territory comprised all of present-day Kansas and most of present- 6 May 1859 John H. Gregory discovers a quartz vein rich in gold at Gregory’s day Colorado. The Nebraska Territory comprised present-day Gulch, on the north branch of Clear Creek in western Kansas Nebraska and parts of North and South Dakota, Wyoming, and Territory (present-day Colorado). A series of strikes begins. Colorado. Current treaties with the Osage, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Colorado towns such as Boulder, Golden, Canon City, and Colorado Chippewa, and other Indian Nations are ignored. Springs owe their existence to mining activity. By 1860 5000 miners 15 May 1856 The editor of the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, James King, a week pour into the Kansas Territory. is found murdered. ‘Committees of Vigilance’ are formed to keep 9 May 1859 Utah Territorial Governor Cummings declares any assemblage of order in the streets. armed men in the territory illegal, attempting to handle the pres- 21 May 1856 The pro-slavery Border Ruffians, aided by Kickapoo Rangers under ence of both federal troops and armed Mormons. Colonel Jefferson Buford, sack Lawrence, Kansas Territory. The 12 May 1859 Captain Earl Van Dorn and members of the Second Cavalry attack hotel and printing presses are burned, homes are pillaged, and one Comanche forces at Crooked Creek, southwestern Kansas Territory. man is killed. Exaggerated accounts of the destruction arouse Robert E. Lee is wounded during this fight. Forty-nine Comanche Northern sympathizers. warriors are killed and the remaining five are wounded, thirty-two 24 May 1856 Around midnight John Brown, his four sons and two others attack Comanche women are taken prisoner, and two soldiers are killed. pro-slavery cabins along Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas Territory. 12 May 1859 “Where, under our Declaration of Independence, does the White They butcher five men, hacking off limbs and shooting them as fam- Saxon man get his power to deprive all women and negroes of their ilies watch in horror. Militias of Kansas’ factions are alerted to stand inalienable rights?” queries Susan B. Anthony at the opening of the by. Ninth National Women’s Rights Convention in New York City. Soon, 27 May 1856 General John Wool and his forces and volunteers defeat the Rogue pioneering women west of the Mississippi will pick up the cry. River Indians at the Battle of Big Meadows, Oregon. 23 May 1859 John Baylor and a group of Texans attack the Caddo living on the 28 May 1857 An Army punitive expedition departs Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Brazos River Reservation. The attack is due to a series of murders Territory against Mormon settlers resisting federal authority in committed by non-reservation Plains Indians. After one Indian is Utah. Information the territory was in a ‘state of rebellion’ was killed, Agent Robert Neighbors intercedes and arranges for the exaggerated. Caddo to be moved to a new reservation in Oklahoma, far from the 11 May 1858 Minnesota is admitted to the Union as a non-slave state. It is the Indian-hating Texans. Neighbors will be murdered in September, thirty-second state of the Union. labeled an “Indian-lover.” May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 61

GUN e e DIGESTTM HOLLYWOOD AND Book of the .44 THE O. K. CORRAL By Michael F. Blake AKA By John (“Sixgunner”) Taffin Monument Valley Mike, SASS #54837 Reviewed by Kansas City Jack, SASS #9243 Reviewed By Nubbins Colt, SASS Life #7802 ollywood and the OK Corral is a book of his- his incredible treatise has 44 Htory and myths. If Michael were writing a Tchapters – oh, come on, you knew book on sports, we would say he hit the “grand that had to happen, didn’t you? slam.” It’s a book on films. It gets the “Oscar” for Clever, huh? Made me chuckle, too some of the best information on the famous The first section of the book, shootout, as well as the eight films that featured called “The First Forty-Fours” takes Nubbins Colt, this famous shootout one hundred and twenty us from percussion guns to the .44 SASS Life #7802 five years ago, Russian to the “Legendary Lever- Michael put in historical perspective what guns” the “Companion-Sixguns—the more chapters just on the guns of the really happened at the O.K. Corral on October 26, Frontier .44-40.” What you did not .44 Special. We don’t get to the 1881. The information in the first chapter gives know, or have forgotten, about the fabled .44 Magnum until halfway one of the best descriptions of the event. In chap- early .44s, especially the Winchester through the book! Now that’s what I ter two, he tells about the real Wyatt in his later Centerfire and the companion Colts, call serious details. Moreover, you years … a part of film making in the early years of Hollywood. Wyatt was will all be delivered to you in John will be awed by the in-depth, fasci- a consultant to this early industry and a good friend of many stars. Taffin’s meticulous and exciting style nating discussion of the development Then come the eight major films about Tombstone and the famous and great detail. of the .44 Magnum —it is one of the gunfight. Each film is given its historical place in Hollywood. Whether The book takes next to “The .44 most fascinating sections of the fact or fiction, it’s what we today think about the realities and myths. Special” for three chapters and then, entire story of the .44s. (Continued on page 71) in an interesting twist, there are ten (Continued on page 70) Page 62 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

EMF’S 1872 OPEN TOP IN .45 COLT! By Tuolumne Lawman, SASS Life #6127

the wrong box of shells out of the could!” Since they got one to me essentially a center-fire Henry). It saddlebags when you grabbed your first, they get the article. was an instant success, and was rifle and dove behind some rocks to 1872 OPEN TOP: even adopted by the US Army. It avoid hostiles or banditos! Colt had A BRIEF HISTORY RECAP was the first metallic cartridge been making metallic cartridge con- From the time of the California revolver with true “stopping power.” versions of their 1851 and 1860 per- Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the Colt, Remington, and others could cussion revolvers for at least a year early westward migration, almost all only produce their percussion Tuolumne Lawman, or two, but they were not available in revolvers were percussion firearms, revolvers, as S&W still had the SASS #6127 a rifle caliber. with the exception of the Smith and patent rights for bored through Then, as now, it makes sense to Wesson revolvers. Smith and Wesson cylinders – an absolute necessity for he Colt Open Top Model was have the same caliber for both rifle held the rights to Rollin White’s cartridge revolvers! Tmade in 1872, with a mind of and revolver. I always wondered why patent on “bored through revolver In 1871, however, the patent marketing it to the numerous Henry couldn’t I have an 1872 in .45 Colt. cylinders.” From about 1860 on, expired. Many manufacturers, and Winchester rifle owners. The Imagine my surprise when in S&W produced their No. 1, No. 1-1/2, including Colt, worked feverishly to Open Top used the same .44 caliber late 2006 General Grant’s EMF and No. 2 revolvers, which were in .22 come up with cartridge revolvers. rim-fire ammunition the rifles did. called and asked me if I wanted to and .32 caliber rim fire. Though pop- Colt introduced the Richard’s If you were out on the range, far try their new .45 Colt version of the ular, they were rather anemic in the patented, a cartridge conversion of from towns and civilization, having a 1872 Open Top. It seems Cimarron “fight stopping” power department. the 1851 Navy and 1860 Army rifle and pistol using the same ammo lost their exclusive rights, and the In 1869, S&W introduced their revolvers. They used a new shorter made sense. It was far simpler to first thing EMF did was to acquire No. 3 “American Model” top break cylinder on the percussion frame. have one cartridge for all your guns. them in .45 Colt. I was ecstatic, and revolver; first in .44 Henry rim-fire, Behind the cylinder was an added-on There was no possibility of grabbing of course said, “Aw shucks, I guess I then in .44 American (which was (Continued on page 64) COWBOY ACTION SHOOTING SPECIAL SHOOTERS PACKAGE

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CIMARRON BRINGS BACK THE EARLY WEST Henry Military Model

By Tuolumne Lawman, SASS #6127

HENRY HISTORY The most revolutionary excep- tion to the 1850’s era single shot rifles was the experimental lever action Volcanic Repeating Rifle, designed by D.B. Wesson of Smith and Wesson. This rifle was available in various calibers, but all calibers used a hollow lead bullet that con- tained a small 6.5-grain powder charge and a priming compound. To say it was anemic in the perform- ance area is an understatement. Cimarron’s faithful reproduction of the Henry Rifle is both beautiful and functional. Cowboy Action Shooters can’t go wrong choosing Oliver Winchester saw the poten- the Queen of the Old West rifles … the rifle that ensured tial this design had. He bought the the conquest of the West! Volcanic Arms Co., and renamed it New Haven Arms Co., and set out to ered ammunition (that had a .44 caliber rim fire cartridge. It uti- .44 Henry rounds (l-r) — two 215 gr. improve the design. He wisely really nasty habit of going off lized a copper case with a priming bullet/25 gr. blackpowder Civil War employed Volcanic’s Superintendent, vintage loads, Tuolumne Lawman’s in the under barrel magazine), compound in the folded rim, much an inventor named B. Tyler Henry. 200 gr. bullet/28 gr. blackpowder Henry put Henry in charge of ammu- like a modern day .22 LR cartridge. Winchester, knowing the Volcanic’s duplication load, and three 200 gr. nition development. The powder charge was 26 to 28 shortcoming was the very underpow- bullet/28 gr. blackpowder Henry Flat loads. In 1858, Henry patented a (Continued on page 66) Page 64 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

ished bluing, perfectly fitting walnut Colt or other SAA clones. Half cock one- piece grips, and a nice subtle the hammer, open the loading gate color casehardened receiver and on the side, and rotate the cylinder Leather hammer! The cylinder has a Colt by hand. When taking it apart to Style Naval battle scene roll stamped clean it, you break it down like an Reproductions from the Frontier West Era on it. Like the Richards-Mason Con- 1860 .44 Army percussion revolver. versions and original 1872s, the EMF Drive out the wedge, pull off the bar- 1872 Open Top has a hammer- rel, and then with the hammer at mounted firing pin. half cock, pull off the cylinder. When you pick it up, you immedi- Reassemble in reverse order. It is ately notice they have a nice balance. one of the easiest revolvers to clean, It has a slightly muzzle heavy feel even when using real blackpowder. that lends itself (in my opinion) to The EMF/Uberti 1872 has a nice Duelist style shooting. The actions touch. The wedge screw to capture are light and crisp; the trigger on the takedown wedge has a flat spot mine breaking at around 2 lbs. with on the edge. Tightened in, it keeps almost no creep! The timing was the wedge from backing out. To “right on the money.” I saw no drag remove the wedge, you just turn the marks on the cylinder. The front screw one-quarter turn to its flat sight is a blade style, while the rear edge, allowing you to drive out the sight is a milled notch in a built up wedge. Another clever feature is the Quality Custom Leatherwork area on the top, rear end of the bar- flange on the front of the cylinder face rel. The front sight is higher than on used to eliminate cylinder pin fouling. at Affordable Prices the original 1872’s, as they used the This flange makes the EMF 1872’s same sights as the 1860 Army per- impervious to blackpowder fowling. I cussion models. The originals were fired 100 rounds of blackpowder loads • Chaps/Chinks • Saddlebags regulated for 75 yards! The sight from an earlier Uberti 1872 Open Top • Ranger Belts • Cuffs • Spur Straps picture was superior to a pinch (.45 Schofield variety) without clean- framed early Colt or Remington ing it. It just kept going. 1875, but not quite as good as a HOW DOES IT SHOOT? ’s! It is wide enough to lend The reason I chose .45 Colt 1872 Cochise, AZ • (520) 826-1272 itself to a rapid front sight acquisi- Open Tops should be obvious. It is a tion. The fit and finish, especially revolver that has been too long See these and MUCH MORE on our the wood to metal fit, was flawless. awaited. As I have already stated, The bluing is dark and rich. the slightly muzzle heavy feel of the Website: www.cochiseleather.com Loading and unloading the 1872 1872’s really seemed to point very Colt is the same as with an original (Continued on next page)

EMF’S 1872 OPEN TOP IN .45 COLT! . . . (Continued from page 62) in the new 1873 Single Action Army. piece to the frame that held a loading Even then, the concept of one car- gate, rear sight notch, and frame tridge for both rifle and pistol was mounted firing pin. The loading popular. It certainly simplified provi- lever was removed and replaced with sioning for a long trek on horseback. an ejector rod. Another Colt engi- The Open Tops, 1866 Winchester, and neer named Mason patented some Henry stayed popular until the turn changes to the basic conversion. It of the Century. Rim-fire .44 Henry utilized a hammer mounted firing ammunition was even manufactured pin and a slightly different ejector until just before WWII. rod. Both of these revolvers were an EMF’S .45 COLT 1872 instant success. OPEN TOP In 1872, Colt had run out of 1860 EMF was one of the very first components, and introduced the new purveyors of fine replica Old West 1872 “Open Top” revolver. While Guns. The newest in their line of very similar in appearance to the revolvers is the 1872 Open Top conversions, it was made from all Model in .45 Colt. It is great! I newly manufactured parts. The obtained an 1872 Open Top .45 Colt “Open Top” name derives from the in late fall of 2006 for evaluation in fact, just like the earlier 1860s and this article. Mine is an eight-inch conversions, there was no top strap barreled model with the blue steel over the cylinder. The only parts Army size grip. The 1872 Open Top that were interchangeable with the Models from EMF are now available 1860s and conversions are the grip in three calibers: .45 Colt, .44 frame and, I believe, the wedge! A Colt/.44 Special/.44 Russian, and .38 total of around 7,000 of these Open Special/.38 Colt. Availability varies, Tops were manufactured by Colt as demand is VERY high. between 1872 and 1876. My first impression of the EMF The 1872 Open Top Colt was 1872 was extremely favorable. The available only in .44 Henry rim-fire. 1872’s are very similar to the sleek It was meant to be a companion piece lines of the 1860 Richards and to the 1866 Winchester and Henry Richards-Mason conversion. They rifles, and was an instant marketing have a slightly “beefier” cylinder than success. Both of these rifles were in the originals to accommodate the .44 Henry caliber. Colt even contin- larger modern .45 and .44 cartridges. ued with the .44 rim-fire chambering The 1872’s have beautiful, deep pol-

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(Continued from previous page) load. In another test fire session well when shooting Duelist. This using an 1860 Uberti Army with an natural “pointability” is inherited R&D conversion cylinder, the 180- from its 1860 Colt Army percussion grain Schofield was capable of sub- roots. The long barrel and muzzle one inch groups! Go figure? heavy feel of the Open Top also CONCLUSION seemed to help my “point shooting” The EMF .45 Colt 1872 Open using a traditional two hand hold. Tops are perfect for the Cowboy For the evaluation, the 1872 Open Action Shooter or Old West re-enac- Top was shot off-hand, two handed, tor portraying the early post-Civil traditional style, at ten yards. For War years of the American West. It this article, I used the following is perfect to go with an 1865 Spencer, smokeless ammunition: 1860 Henry, or 1866 Winchester, Black Hills .45 Colt 250 grain. especially if you use .45 Colt in your Black Hills .45 Schofield 230 grain. main match rifle. (Ah, some may say Black Hills .45 Schofield 180 grain Spencers don’t come in .45 Colt! LOAD They will be coming soon!) Using the GROUP SIZE/POI same ammo for pistol and rifle has Black Hills 250 RNFP always been convenient and logical. 1"/ 2-1/2" above POA EMF has done a wonderful job on Black Hills 230 RNFP the .45 Colt 1872 Open Tops. Not 2-1/4"/3" above POA only are they beautiful, they are real Black Hills 180 RNFP shooters. I liked my sample so much, 5"*/1" above POA I bought it to pair with my Taylor’s The 1872 Open Top clearly pre- .45 Colt, 1858 Remington factory car- ferred the Black Hills 250-grain Colt tridge conversion. load. I found this a little surprising, If you are interested in EMF’s as usually I find the 230-grain new .45 Colt 1872 Open Tops, or any Schofield loads do best. of the other available calibers of * The 180-grain Schofields were 1872’s, contact EMF at (949) 261- awful in the Open Top. For some rea- 6611, or check their web site at: son I have found that guns either www.emf-company.com. Tell them love or hate the 180-grain Schofield ol’ Tuolumne Lawman sent ya!

VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT WWW.SASSNET.COM Page 66 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007 has a graceful, gently swelled curve, MI specifications. I hand-load for reminiscent of a Kentucky long rifle. mine, and tend to load slightly lower As the Henry is N-SSA approved, than “factory” loads. the stock has two re-enforcing rods When loading for the Henry, it is running through it to give it addi- imperative you only load flat point tional strength for use “in the field.” bullets. This is even more critical than The frame is eye-catching brass. other tubular magazine rifles. This is The Henry has a door in the nicely because of the peculiar way you load done brass crescent butt plate to the Henry from the muzzle end. expose a cavity in the stock for a To load, you push the thumb piece multi-part cleaning rod, just like the (and follower) up to the muzzle end of originals. The finish on the barrel the tube. When it reaches the end, it and lever of my sample is the “char- unlocks the last four inches of barrel coal blue” finish, an almost irides- and magazine tube (including the fol- cent, rich blue. lower), which then rotate about 30 The Military Model Henry has degrees around the axis of the barrel, military inspector’s cartouches on leaving the muzzle end of the maga- the stock and frame. There is a sling zine tube open. One then loads up to swivel on the left side of the stock, 13 rounds of .45 Colt (or .44-40) or 14 also like the originals. There is a rounds of Schofield, rim end first. corresponding “D” screwed to the This is best done by laying the rifle on left side of the barrel to accept the its side on the loading table, and plac- peculiar hook device for the opposite ing them in one at a time. While end of the Henry military sling. The holding the follower back, rotate the Henry has a long-range ladder barrel back into place, and ease the sight, fancifully graduated to 800 follower down against the cartridges yards. This folds down to expose a until all of the excess space in the wide “V” notch “Battle Sight.” The magazine tube is taken up. front sight is a very wide, non- Even though the newer Henry adjustable brass blade. rifles have a rubber shock absorber While the Cimarron rifles are as insert in the follower where it con- heavy as the originals, and are sub- tacts the bullets, I still would not ject to the same limitations of the allow the follower to snap down on 19th century design and the same the stack of cartridges in the maga- materials, with its brass frame, DO zine. If one round has a high primer, NOT SHOOT HOT LOADS IN THE it could still go off! This thumb piece HENRY! The rifle is designed to on the follower moves along the bot- take factory loads that meet SSAA- (Continued on next page)

CIMARRON BRINGS BACK THE EARLY WEST . . . (Continued from page 63) armed with one of these [Henry] grains of blackpowder behind either rifles, particularly if on horseback, a 216-grain conical or 200-grain flat can not be taken!” point bullet. The latter was referred CIMARRON’S to as the “.44 Henry Flat.” The bul- HENRY MILITARY MODEL let was a “healed” design, where the The Henry replicas are currently bullet is the same diameter as the available only in .44-40 or .45 Colt. cartridge case. To attach the bullet The .45 Colt will feed .45 Schofield, to the case, the base of the bullet is also, as long as you don’t use the rebated, this smaller diameter por- short 180-grain bullets. While the tion being crimped inside the case Henry is one of the most expensive (also like a modern .22 LR round). Cowboy Action Shooting™ rifles, The original Henry rounds moved retailing at $1050 or so, Cimarron’s out at between 1100 and 1150 fps. Henry is well worth it. Just as it was While not a powerhouse by today’s in 1865, it is an extremely expensive standards, it would prove very popu- rifle to produce. The barrel and mag- lar during its time. azine tube are still machined from a Winchester coupled this car- single piece of forged steel, just as tridge with a modification of the old the originals were. Volcanic rifle, and in 1860, the Henry It has a certain mystique and is Repeating Rifle was born. It held an in my mind, with the exception of its unprecedented 15 shots in the maga- cousin the 1866 Winchester, the quin- zine, and one more in the chamber. tessential rifle of the “Wild West.” In a world full of single shot muzzle When you consider the Wild West loaders, this was unbelievable fire- was from 1860 to 1890ish, the Henry power! The Henry rifle earned a and 1866 far outnumbered the 1873 much-deserved reputation for awe- Winchester until almost 1880, and some firepower! While a muzzle- still continued to be popular until loader is capable of several shots a near the turn of the Century. minute, the new Henry rifle was The Cimarron Henry’s long bar- capable of an unbelievable one aimed rel is accented by the lack of a fore shot every second! Winchester capi- stock, thus making the barrel seem talized on this with some rather fan- even longer. The brass frame and ciful advertising. He said the Henry butt plate, even when tarnished was the most effective firearm in the with use, nicely accent the blued world. He also said: “A resolute man, steel of the barrel. The butt stock May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 67

.45 Colt and Schofield smokeless The 1860 Henry is perfect for the loads shot to about the same point of Cowboy Action Shooter, Old West re- aim as my duplicate Henry loads. enactor, or casual shooter that wants LOAD GROUP SIZE/POINT OF to have a period-correct rifle from IMPACT the early period of the West or the Black Hills 250 RNFP Civil War. Cimarron has done a won- .45 Colt 3" 3" above POA derful job on these guns. Not only Black Hills 230 RNFP are they beautiful, they are real .45 Schofield 2" 2-1/2" above shooters. I don’t think you could go POA wrong by picking up a Cimarron 27 grn FFFG Goex, WLP primer, Henry. Check out their Web Site at 200 RNFP 2-1/2" 1-1/2" above www.cimarron-firearms.com,or POA call them at: (830) 997-9090. 25 grn FFG Triple 7, WLP primer, 200 RNFP 3-1/2" 2" above POA * * * 27 grn FFG Elephant, CCI 350 Tell them that primer, old Tuolumne Lawman sent Ya! 200 RNFP 2" 2" above POA * * * (Continued from previous page) ing, I use 25 grains (volume) of tom of the magazine tube as you Hodgdon’s Triple 7 blackpowder chamber each round. Because there replacement. It is about 10-15% hot- is no wood fore-stock, it is necessary ter than equivalent blackpowder to shift your grip on the tube when loads, so 25 grains of Triple 7 dupli- the follower comes in contact with cate the 27-28 grains of Goex. your hand. In the beginning this was Original Henry rounds I have dis- a minor annoyance, but I have gotten sected have 25 to 27 grains of coarse used to it and do it now without even (probably FFG) blackpowder and a consciously noticing it. 200-grain .440-.442 diameter heeled HOW DOES IT SHOOT? bullet in a copper rimfire case. The The reason I chose .45 Colt/Scho- overall length of the Schofield field in the 1860 Henry was to be rounds is very close to the Henry, able to, as closely as possible, dupli- only about 1/10 inch longer overall. cate the .44 Henry round originally As for factory ammunition, Black used in the 1860 Henry and 1866 Hills makes both .45 Schofield and Winchester. I used Starline .45 .45 Colt factory ammo for Cowboy Schofield brass, Winchester and CCI Action Shooters. The published primers, 27 grains (volume) of both velocity for the Colt and Schofield FFFG Goex and FFG Elephant loads hovers at about 750 fps. I used blackpowder, a milk carton .45 diam- only the 230-grain Schofield loads, as eter wad (to prevent the lube in the the 180-grain Schofields were too wad from migrating to the powder), short for my Henry. I also used and a SPG lubed 200 grain RNFP Black Hills .45 Colt 250 grain RNFP .452 bullet. For an alternative load- loads in the Henry. The Black Hills

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e e DWAIN B. BOND – “BONDO” BISON CODY, SASS #29413 By Wendell Bond The Personification of Dwain B. Bond believed in rein- carnation, and he certainly brought Buffalo Bill credibility to that belief during the By Lucky Bill Thorington, SASS #765 final years of his life, prior to his sud- den death from a heart attack on Cody, WY – On March 16, 2007, a Gloucester Engineering Company. March 5, 2007, at the age of 64. good friend of many of us in the While there, Bison Cody received During the past several years, Dwain SASS Affiliated Colter’s Hell an associate degree in mechanical could be found at events around the Justice Committee and the shoot- engineering. country celebrating our Western her- ing sports in general passed from In 1979 he moved to Cody and itage. And, those who had the oppor- this earth. Many knew Bison went into the hot dog business, tunity to enter his Old West saloon Cody, aka Ebb Tarr, as the personi- parking his wagon next to the Irma tent and listen to him pound out over fication of Buffalo Bill Cody. For for two years. In 1981 he estab- 100 “honky tonk” style historic songs many years Bison portrayed the lished the Cody Shooters Supply on his vintage upright piano, Great Showman with an authen- and Cody Trading Post. He devel- observed a master at re-creating the ticity second to none. To say he oped products for Colonial Arms, “rinky tink” sound that served as was a stickler for detail would be held many patents, and continued background music in dusty, frontier an understatement. working as a gunsmith and saloons across the American West in Edmund “Ebb” Stanton Tarr Jr. machinist. the late 1800’s. Playing by ear and was born December 21, 1941 in In 1995 Bison began his por- with his authentic close-handing Gloucester, Massachusetts where trayal of “Buffalo Bill” during the style, Dwain brought back the look he attended grade school, high Buffalo Bill Festival Chili Cook off. and the sound of those frontier Dwain “Bondo” Bond school, and three years of vocation- The following year, during the saloon piano days that have been all Frontier Piano Player al machinist training, graduating Centennial, he was named Cody’s but lost to the annals of time. in 1959. official “Buffalo Bill” and was the Born in Decatur, Texas on March mism, and his ability to have a lot of Grand Marshal for the 4th of July 16, 1942, he spent his early child- fun at whatever he did. Parade. For the last 12 years, hood in Lubbock, Texas, until his Dwain also had a good ear for Bison Cody put forth many hours, family moved to central Ohio. There music, as well as an ability to play days, weeks, and months of he attended Canal Winchester High without instruction just about any research, dedication, and commit- School and later, after serving in the musical instrument he laid his ment to the true portrayal of National Guard, graduated from hands on. From banjo to bagpipes, Buffalo Bill. He lectured on Capital University with a Bachelor’s trumpet to fife to piano, he would Buffalo Bill and his guns for many degree in Geology. entertain friends, family, and colleges and grade schools, put Following his graduation, strangers with his music, sometimes together Buffalo Bill’s legendary Dwain’s spirit of adventure took him into the wee hours of the morning. sharp-shooting exhibition, and per- to Fairbanks, Alaska, where he So, after retiring from the oil busi- formed for many functions, includ- attended graduate school in geology ness, Dwain began doing what he ing the Special Olympics. He per- for one year at the University of truly loved: playing music. He said, formed as Buffalo Bill for televi- Alaska. Dwain didn’t like sitting in a “it sure fits me just fine.” Having the sion’s “Amazing Race.” Bison Cody classroom any longer, so he hired on sense he belonged more in the 19th received many awards and recogni- with Pan American Petroleum (later Century than the 20th, Dwain tion from the Plains Indian known as Amoco) where he managed formed a Civil War era drum and fife Powwow, Ducks Unlimited, and oil and gas wells being drilled in the corps and played at historic and civic Special Operations for his dona- Gulf of Alaska. From there, Dwain events in Texas and New Mexico, and tions of firearms. began his 30-year career in the oil participated in Civil War re-enact- Survivors include a daughter, and gas business. He worked for ments at Gettysburg and other bat- In 1959 he enlisted in the brothers, sisters, a special daugh- major oil companies and small inde- tlefields. Ultimately, he moved on to United States Army, receiving spe- ter and a special brother, pendents, developed his own consult- his final “gig,” playing his honky- cial training for small arms repair, and two special grand- ing business and his own small oil tonk frontier saloon piano at served a two-year tour in daughters. company, “wildcatting” and traveling Western heritage shows across the Germany, and was honorably dis- A Celebration throughout the western U.S. and country, including END of TRAIL. charged in 1962. He trained at the of Life was held South America, and he called several He also composed lyrics, and one of Lynn Trade Center for journey- at Cassie’s Sup- places home, including Anchorage, his compositions was being consid- men, machinists, and metallurgy. per Club March Denver, Midland, Corpus ered for national recognition at the After completion he worked for 25, 2007. Cre- Christi, Abilene, and time of his death. General Electric Aircraft in the mation has finally Big Spring, Dwain was truly one-of-a-kind. engine division and later for taken place. Texas. Throughout People were naturally drawn to him all the ups and because of his humor, his talent, his downs of the sense of adventure, and most of all, oil industry, his authenticity. Dwain created good GIVE TO THE he main- times and fun, no matter where he tained his was or what he was doing. He will be SASS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION great sense missed by his friends, his wife, his (A non-profit, tax-deductable charity) of humor, two daughters, and his brother, his Wendell. We all wish him Godspeed MAKE THE DIFFERENCE! opti- as he begins his next “gig.” May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 69

e e TRAIL MARKER FOR A FRIEND HARRY LUCK, Texas Yankee, SASS #8133 SASS LIFE #35031 3/21/1943 to 2/24/2007 1924–2005 By Shynee Graves, SASS #19614 By L. W. Hannabass. SASS #27436

El Paso, Texas – Harry Luck, aka “Get everyone together. I don’t Dennis D. Loechel, 63, left us on want to tell this more than once.” February 24, 2007, after his final That was the way Woodrow Call battle with cancer. Born in Illinois, began the news of his friend’s death. he resided in El Paso for the last 20 These same words bring the news of years. He was a veteran of the the loss of one of Cowboy Action USMC and served his country in Shooting’s most faithful. the Vietnam War. He worked at SASS #8133, Texas Yankee, aka Western Electric in Beaumont, Homer C. James, died June 2005 Texas for many years. He spent after a massive heart attack. The much of his life traveling the coun- Big Thicket Outlaws of Beaumont, try working in Telecommuni- Texas have lost another founding cations. Harry loved his family member. Texas Yankee is survived and friends, the outdoors, Western by his wife and two sons. movies, and SASS. He was 81 years young and loved Harry Luck was a strong man Cowboy Action Shooting™. He with a big heart who is loved and enjoyed shooting the firearms, the will be deeply missed. See more camaraderie, and playing the game. about Harry Luck at www.rnem. Regulators, Tejas Pistoleros, Otero When problems with his right eye com. Survivors include his wife Practical Shooting Association, prevented him from focusing on the Sandra, his children and their fam- Texas Historical Shootist Society, front sights of his rifle and pistols, ilies, and his sister. Tejas Caballeros, Big Thicket Texas Yankee put on an eye patch Harry Luck loved blackpowder Outlaws, South Texas Pistoleros, and began shooting left-handed. He and was a great Frontiersman. He and Tombstone Buscaderos. was a true competitor and a living belonged to the following SASS Harry had a military funeral in example of the Spirit of the Game. Clubs – Gila Rangers, Oakwood El Paso complete with USMC Texas Yankee was awarded the Outlaws, Badlands Bar 3, Texas Honor Guard. The Picacho Posse Bronze Star in World War Troublemakers, Magdalena Trail of Las Cruces, New Mexico held a II. He was a lawman in Drivers, Las Cruces/Picacho Posse, memorial shoot in April with the Ohio, raced stock cars, out his encouragement and friend- Red River Regulators, Six Guns contributions going to the family. and was a husband ship. He still lives in the hearts and Shady Ladies/El Paso, Tin Harry requested his remains be and father. He was memories of his fellow cowboys. Star Texans, Brush loaded into shotgun shells and be also my friend. My Vaya con Dios, ol’ pard. May Busters, Alamo Area shot into the sky. That request world will be a lit- flights of angels sing thee to thy Moderators, Mud occurred at his Memorial shoot in tle darker with- rest. Springs Plinkers, Las Cruces. Texas Peacema- Harry’s shot shells shook the kers, Texican Ran- ground and his presence shook our gers, Fly Posse, lives. He will always be remem- VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT Seven Rivers bered as a great Frontiersman. WWW.SASSNET.COM Page 70 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007 panies so, in case you were wonder- ing, Big John misses no maker of any Handlebar Doc importance, replicas, double action Shooting Schools silhouette guns, semi-automatic mag- nums, and single shots as well. I do love the title of chapter 34 – John T calls it “The Perfect Cartridge in the Perfect Sixgun – Freedom Arms Model 83.” He does have a way with words, and he lets us know what’s good and what’s great! This is a book about a caliber, not handguns, so Section 7 is called “The Long Guns and Long Cartridges” and NEW SHOTGUN KNOCK-DOWN TARGET!!! after the Cowboy Action Shooter’s Shot at EOT, NE Regional, favorites, both the replica .44s and the modern .44 rifles, we get details SW Regional and about the .444 Marlin and .445 Mule Camp SuperMag—now, if that doesn’t cover EVERYTHING about the .44, what else is there? One more thing – “Loads and Handloads for the .44s.” John Taffin Shooting Schools is nothing if he’s not a handloader Private Lessons extraordinaire, and Section 8 gives us the whole nine yards of loading the Group Schools .44 caliber cartridge. If you need to One on One Via Video know which bullet, powder, primer, Focusing on your and die to use—here it is! I admit, some of that is Greek to me, but for individual needs my reloading pardners, this will be a dream section to have. I am kind of fond of the last chapter because, as it is Chapter 44, it covers “Factory www.handlebardoc.com Loads for .44s,” and it is in this world Handlebar Doc 903-732-5245 - [email protected] that I most often find myself when it comes to just about anything to do with my defensive .44s. In Mr. Taffin’s own words, the TM GUN DIGEST ... while Dan Wesson, Rugers, and story of the .44 is far from over. He (Continued from page 61) Taurus .44s, being much larger and sees deeply into the past, and he sees Obviously, the importance of the heavier, are like Clydesdales.” What far off into the future when he says, .44 Magnum cannot be overstated, does that mean? It means use those in conclusion: and Sections 4, 5, and 6 are devoted really heavy loads in .44 magnums “I do hope there are more .44s to to this caliber. Sixgunner cleverly from companies other than Smith discover in my lifetime, more cartridges breaks down the .44 Magnum into &Wesson. Big John calls S &W’s .44 to load, more sixguns and leverguns to the guns most frequently associated Magnum revolvers “gentlemen’s six- shoot, and I hope that 50 years from with it by manufacturer, so there is guns,” and I think you all can under- now the status of the .44 is such that simply no confusion. First, there are stand exactly what he means. there is another who appreciates the three chapters for Smith & Wesson’s The S&W section is followed by .44 as much as I do and adds chapters Model 29, then the Model 629, then four chapters on the Rugers, from the to The Gun Digest Book of the .44.” the new, lightweight Magnum, the “First .44 Blackhawk—the “Flat-Top” Gun Digest Books 329PD. One great line I noted was through the Super Blackhawk, Bisley, An imprint of F+W Publications where John T says, “When it comes to and Hunter models from that compa- AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF double action .44 Magnums, Smith & ny. 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WHAT WOULD CHARLIE DO? . . . HOLLYWOOD AND THE O. K. CORRAL . . . (Continued from page 29) held the wire. I got up and went (Continued from page 61) as Morgan, along with an outstand- you do is get all your other neigh- back up stairs. Michael’s insight to the film ing cast that included Powers Boothe bors together and surround him. He “That was quick,” my wife said industry plus his degree in film his- as Curly Bill, Stephen Lang as Ike ain’t got but one set of eyes, and he as she put a dish away in the cup- tory adds to the wonderful informa- Clanton, and Michael Biehn as can’t get all of you. Then you call his board. tion. A great read for a historian, a . bluff, and you tell him to put up or “How long was I down there?” I film buff, or just an ordinary guy or Wyatt Earp (1994) with Kevin shut up. Call him out, say hey you said rubbing my hands. gal who is interested in western Costner as Wyatt Earp and Dennis pot bellied, dog eatin’ no good SOB, “Ten … fifteen minutes, why?” films. The eight films surrounding Quaid as . give up that cannon or pay the piper! “It seemed longer. It seemed the O.K. Corral are: Each film was different and each If he brings the thing out and starts like an afternoon.” I said. Frontier Marshal (1939) with depicted the life and times of both to load it, that’ll give all of you the “Did you figure out the secrets of as Wyatt Earp and Wyatt and Doc in a different way. right to do whatever you can to get time travel … Einstein?” She amus- Cesar Romero as Doc Holliday. They all had the gunfight, but it was rid of him. Fill him full of lead!” es herself at my expense quite often. Tombstone, the Town to always a different part of the story. “Yeah, but what if someone gets I knew if I told her what had Tough to Die (1942), with Richard Each gunfight at the O.K. Corral was hurt?” just happened, she’d be calling the Dix as Wyatt and Ken Taylor as Doc. also presented in a different light. To “Sounds to me like someone’s men with the little white coats to My Darling Clementine (1946) quote the author, “History and gonna get hurt anyway, might as come and take me for a long vaca- with Henry Fonda playing Wyatt and Hollywood have never been synchro- well do it on your terms and not his. tion. “No … but I did think of a Victor Mature as Doc. nous when it comes to facts. At best, And by the way, living in fear is just new way to start a shooting sce- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral they are civilized adversaries and, at about as bad as being hurt. You got nario. It goes like this; you get (1957) gave us two great actors, Burt worst, churlish rivals.” a telegraph in that town where you your biggest target and you put it Lancaster as Wyatt and Kirk And then you decide who’s right live?” right in front of you, and at the Douglas as Doc. and who is wrong, saint, sinner, good “Yes,” I said as I thought of my buzzer you say; Hey you pot bellied, Hour of the Gun (1967) with guy, or bad guy … it’s up to you. cell phone. “It works pretty good dog eatin’ no good son-of-a …” and as Wyatt and Jason Other books by Michael F. Blake too.” then I remembered Cowboy Action Robards as Doc. played are “Code of Honor, The Making of “Well then, go back, take care of Shooting™ is a family sport … . Three Great Westerns—Shane, High business, and send me a wire and let “son-of-a-dictator, give up that nuke Doc (1971) had Stacy Keach as Noon, and The Searchers” and three me know what happened.” or pay the piper! Then you get your Doc and Harris Yulin as Wyatt. books on Lon Chaney (the man of I stood up and as I did, I became pistols out and fill that target full Tombstone (1993) with Kurt 1000 faces). Books can be purchased dizzy and my head started to spin, of lead … just like in the old days.” Russell as Wyatt, Val Kilmer as Doc, at Barnes & Noble, Borders, or from and everything went black. When I I laughed, and as I reached in my Sam Elliott as Virgil, and Bill Paxton the author. came to, I was slumped over my pocket for my pipe tamper, my fin- workbench still holding the wire in ger felt a round object. I took it out my hand. There was no sensation of and looked at it. Low and behold, it electricity that I could feel, but my was a silver dollar dated 1890. VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT WWW.SASSNET.COM hands had a burn line where I had “Well I’ll be …” I said. Page 72 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007 B WINTER RANGE 2007 B (Continued from page 1) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 73 Page 74 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

ALASKA STATE MATCH – THE BEST OF THE TEN By Darlin’ Caroline, SASS #59309

Fairbanks, AK My dearest husband, I miss you ever increasingly as the days pass. My heart aches even more since your return has been delayed. You and your comrades were sorely missed at the State Shoot especially since your arrival was so eagerly anticipated. Let me give you a brief respite from the conflict in which you are immersed with tales from the Alaska State Shoot – The Best of the Ten. The weather was beautiful as it can only be in early August. The Alaskan skies are the bluest of blues until the latest hours as the day changes ever so briefly to night and then back again. I know you miss Alaskan State Champions – them after three years of summer Alaska State Championship Category Winners Crazy Red and Four Bucks Mike skies filled with smoke from the fires, which make the blue skies seemed Fort Chatanika of that troublesome unpleasant for use afterwards. We And now, I find it is time to close. even more beautiful. The tempera- snake population that moves in from flipped hotcakes, dumped chamber You will be pleased to know we are tures were moderate by day and only time to time. The snakes proved to be pots, played cards, stabbed that well supplied for winter. An ample slightly chilly in the evening. the great equalizer as some snakes cheatin’ Ed in the hand, and spit supply of wood is cut and stacked and The side matches held that were more difficult to kill than oth- chaw with that Outlaw Josie Wales. the game and fish are stocked. All Friday ranged from turkey to der- ers! You will be proud to learn I Although, I wasn’t aware ladies ever that remains is for your return. God ringer to stake shoots. Toni Two killed and removed three snakes with spit, much less chewed. speed. Your loving wife. Bits, SASS #20849, shot so well she only four blasts from my shotgun! While you were not able to join (Writer’s notes: The 172nd Stryker had to find homes for all the turkeys We did a lot of traveling from the us, we had friends from Nevada, Brigade assigned to Fort Wainwright, she won as they wouldn’t fit in her Lonesome Dove bell tower and two Michigan, and New Zealand. Two of (Continued on next page) freezer! trips through Open Range. We even them, Toni Two Bits and Sassy Sue, Winners You will recall this is the 10th stopped at the Unforgiven outhouse, along with our old friends, Four Top Overall anniversary year, and it was decided but found it occupied. Unfortunately, Bucks Mike, SASS #36386, and Man and Traditional to choose the favorite stages from the or not, we encountered that miser- Mustang Wrangler, SASS #54386, Four Bucks Mike, previous State Shoots for this year. able excuse for a man who you recall even managed to shoot the entire SASS #36386 Saturday morning heard more than cut that poor girl. He was promptly match clean. Lady and L Traditional one cowboy exclaiming, “I hate dispatched where he sat. The out- The Gold Nugget Charity Shoot Crazy Red, snakes!” as they attempted to rid house, of course, was rendered rather brought much attention and proceeds SASS #57035 to the Fort Wainwright Chaplains B Western Jackpine Savage, Fund to assist your comrades-in- SASS #69910 arms and their families. Two win- C Cowboy Judge Yukon Hatch, SASS #13327 ning numbers were hidden in the tar- Duelist VooDoo Man, get, one odd and one even, with the SASS #15762 final determination to be made at the 49’er Marshal J. Stone, banquet. Many cowboys and girls SASS #53366 took aim hoping for luck to guide F Cartridge Dusty Sterling, their bullet to what would be the win- SASS #48514 ning number. One shooter hit both Frontiersman Brasspounder, numbers with the two shots he fired. SASS #9076 As the results were announced, he L 49’er Valencia Rose, SASS #10588 learned the bullet he fired for himself L Senior Toni Two Bits, hit one number and the bullet he SASS #20849 fired for his much-revered and Junior Ramblin April Rose, respected friend won the nugget. SASS #66883 Young Gun Matt, SASS #71915, won Senior Ace-in-the Hole, the gold nugget for our Avenging SASS #12326 Angel, SASS Life #5757, who had S Duelist El Rod, SASS #8849 instructed him to “go win me that E Statesman Wind Drifter, nugget!” And so he did! SASS #7907 May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 75

(Continued from previous page) lies of the 172nd and the other units Alaska was deployed to Iraq in assigned to them as they continue to August 2005 with an anticipated “soldier on” not knowing when they return of July and August 2006. would return. They subsequently Among the soldiers were members of returned shortly before Christmas. the Golden Heart Shootist Society Following their return, the Alaska who hoped to compete in the State National Guard deployed, again tak- Shoot. Shortly after the Brigade ing at least one GHSS shooter with began its return to Ft. Wainwright in them. Our thoughts and prayers are late July, orders were changed, and with our military servicemen and they were extended indefinitely. women and their families across the Soldiers who had already arrived country as they continue to support home redeployed to Iraq. Our appre- and defend our country as so many ciation goes to the members and fami- have before them, in so many places.) Page 76 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

THE SINGLE ACTION SHOOTING SOCIETY’S CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP “Down By The River” Hosted by THE TWO RIVERS POSSE AND THE MANTECA SPORTSMEN’S CLUB, INC.

By Shenandoah, SASS #749

urham Ferry, October 12-15, temperatures in the mid seventies D2006 – The Single Action and cloudless skies with just enough Shooting Society’s California State breezes to carry away the white Championship was held in the mid- smoke. Lots of green grass and dle of California’s Great Valley by the shade trees contributed to the idyllic lazy San Joaquin River. It was a setting. The Manteca Sportsmen’s well-organized and smoothly imple- Club had groomed the range to a fare mented shooting extravaganza. thee well and the play had a mar- Mother Nature did her part with velous stage. From the side matches

Winners L Modern Sweetwater, California State Champions SASS #1122 Male Badlands Bud, L Young Gun Little Fawn SASS #15821 L 49er Jessie Montana, Female Little Fawn, SASS #8344 SASS #41497 L Senior Paniolo Lady, Top Gun Shoot Off Champion SASS #28694 Lefty Vaquero, Side Matches SASS #39185 Long Range Rifle Badlands Bud and Little Fawn Category P Caliber Pending, were crowned California State Frontiersman Lefty Eastman, SASS #53296 Champions. Congratulations! SASS #20645 Danville Dove C Cowboy Chekahsah Joe, R Caliber Calaveras Bear, SASS #26301 SASS #45958 B Western , Annie B Restless, Nerves of steel, lighting fast reflexes, SASS #4237 SASS #58669 and smooth technique all played a Gunfighter Wildroot, S Shot Calaveras Bear role in allowing Lefty Vaquero to SASS #33149 Annie B Restless prevail in a hotly contested Top Gun Duelist Jasper, Speed Shoot-off. Great Shooting! SASS #54049 Rifle Badlands Bud Traditional Badlands Bud Sweetwater Modern Melvin P Thorpe, Pistol Badlands Bud SASS #41766 Anita Margarita Young Gun Bobcat Tyler, Shotgun Lefty Vaquero, SASS #10767 SASS #39185 49er Swifty Swede, Sweetwater SASS #33877 Cowboy Trap Slim Slicker, Senior Bad Fingers O’Kern, SASS #50081 SASS #60177 Costume Contest S Duelist St. Joe’s Sheriff, Sunday Go To Meetin’ Costume SASS #29718 Pyrite, SASS #6769 The cowboys and girls not only shot E Statesman Bloody Bill Anderson, Pure Gold, well … many found time to get super SASS #61673 SASS #9339 cleaned up for Saturday night. F Cartridge Snakebite, Working Costume Looking Good! SASS #4767 Diamond Back Kid, White tablecloths, real china and F C Duelist Frito Bandito, SASS #17597 silverware, steaks like a Kansas City stages that challenged the best and SASS #16820 Sweetwater steakhouse, savory chicken, and all entertained the rest. From the dock L B Western Fannie Mostly of the fixins’ were there to the desert, the props transported L Gunfighter Clora Form, The Cowboy Way for our enjoyment. us through time to the Old West. SASS #67066 “A cowboy is bound to respect virtuous Gus Ashcroft’s “Howling Wolf L Duelist Sterling Starr, womanhood, trustworthy manhood, on Thursday to the Top Gun Shoot Saloon” contributed greatly to the SASS #34158 the democratic process, and anyone Off on Sunday, fun and excitement experience and was the social center with a loaded gun.” L Traditional Anita Margarita, prevailed. Cherokee Knight and of the occasion. It was a place where SASS #54050 Frank Bruce designed twelve main (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 77 ning stages were won by El Lazo and Johnny Slogun, and Percy Hallen Little Fawn, who was also seventh shot the match clean. overall and the Women’s California Sunday morning offered a rollick- State Champion. Swifty Swede shot ing, laughing team shoot and, finally, with his usual consistency and the Top Gun Shoot Off. This was an aplomb and finished second overall event open to all who had the grit to and first in the 49’er category. Those walk up to the line. It was single 49’ers were well represented with El elimination on mirror image courses Lazo and Sutter Lawman also in the of fire, and the competition was Cowboys and girls “circled the wagons” in a near-idyllic environment top ten. Representing Hoppy, Gene, fierce. On several occasions, the stop to enjoy this year’s SASS California State Championship. and Roy, Cole Younger shot a fine plates were hit almost simultaneous- match, finishing ninth overall and ly to the delight of a wildly cheering (Continued from previous page) steaks like a Kansas City steak- first in B-Western. Wildroot demon- crowd, but the first plate down was a cowpoke could slake his thirst, house, savory chicken, and all of the strated that a well-prepared the winner. Ultimately, Lefty socialize with friends, both old and fixins’ were there for our enjoyment. Gunfighter could hold his own in the Vaquero and Tex Fiddler remained. new, and engage in a game of chance, Vendors offered every sort of cowboy toughest of competition and had a Two fast men faced each other. No if that was a desire. There were goods, as well as pretties and necessi- well earned top ten finish. There one flinched, and it came down to the shooters from one end of the state to ties. There were bullets and bodices were ten categories represented in last gun and the stop plate. Tex the other and other places, too. Gary and lots in between. the top twenty places. Good shooters Fiddler had a momentary glitch and Schmidt and his band of culinary The Overall match winner and prevailed almost without regard to Lefty Vaquero prevailed. They shook warriors assembled and executed a California State Champion was no shooting style, age, or gender. Melvin hands like the champions they are, Saturday night dinner worthy of a surprise. Badlands Bud won ten of P. Thorpe, Powder Bern, Black Jack and Lefty’s smile would have lighted world championship. White table- the twelve stages and finished hand- Traven, the Carmichael Kid, Greezy up a mining tunnel. That’s how it cloths, real china and silverware, ily ahead of second place. The remai- McNasty, Wild Eye Jack, Colma was Down By The River. Page 78 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

WESTMATCH 2006 – THE SASS WASHINGTON STATE CHAMPIONSHIP By The Elder Kate, SASS #5707

enton, WA – As each year pass- had stage designers that have taken Res you wonder how August got the challenge by the reins, and pro- here so fast, and then you are duced innovative, well thought out amazed at how quickly the match is stages. They may not be the kinds of over. At the conclusion, besides stages everyone likes, but they do being bone weary, you are left with a harken back to when SASS started. Yup, you’re likely to run, take a bath, put on funny clothes, have your tin photo taken, and have to disrobe. Now hold it there partner, we mean take them spurs off, cause in the Brothel our ladies are particular, and don’t want them bed ruffles torn or tangled in your jingle bobs! We had knock down targets, shooting stars, moving things, tooth pulling, and generalized silly stuff all over the place ... so, if you like to laugh, and have to git yourself out of the hoosegow, we just might be what Hey, cowboy! You wanna kiiss? We giive you kiiss! Kisses were sold to raise money for a loved cowgirl … but the MacDandee’s you’re looking for. Besides shooting had to chase down the cowboys to deliver the goods! we had some very persistent ladies and buckaroos on a mission. The feeling of satisfaction knowing you favorable memory to take with them. mission: Indian Girl, SASS #16917, were able to shuffle close to 200 peo- For me, it’s seeing old and new was having a very difficult pregnan- Washington State Champions— ple around, and thankfully no one friends, making people smile, and cy, and had been in the hospital for Johnny Buck and Nelly. was injured, and for the most part feeding them some very good food. three months flat on her back. She Outstanding shooting! everyone had something or some For the last couple of years we have (Continued on next page)

WINNERS S Duelist Omache Kid, SIDE MATCH WINNERS Shotgun Diamond Slinger, Washington State Champions SASS #5282 Long Range SASS #59807 Man & Match Winner L Senior The Elder Kate, S.S. Rifle Saber Tooth, L Shotgun Nelly, SASS #11609 Johnny Buck, SASS #5707 SASS #39672 P Pistol Lawbreaker, SASS #32106 E Statesman Silent Sam, L S.S. Rifle Nelly, SASS #11609 SASS #32106 Women Nelly, SASS #24695 SASS #10991 S.S. Pistol Emmet, SASS #975 L P Pistol Kid Karen, Traditional Lawbreaker, Young Gun Crazy Hart, Lever R C Southern Cowboy, SASS #17249 SASS #32106 SASS #62801 SASS #31235 Derringer Lawbreaker, L Traditional Pinto Annie, Buckaroo Silver Dollar L Lever R C Nelly, SASS #11609 SASS #32106 SASS #27966 Sharpshooter, Lever P C Emmet, SASS #975 L Derringer Kid Karen, 49er Mudflat Mike, SASS #51529 L Lever P C Nelly, SASS #11609 SASS #17249 SASS #20904 Buckarette Dezert Brat, T Pistol Emmet, SASS #975 .22 Pistol Danville Dave, L 49er Nellie Belle, SASS #59156 L T Pistol Lilly Bell James, SASS #50507 SASS #24695 COSTUME CONTEST WINNERS SASS #53452 .22 Rifle Dakota Slim, C Cowboy Crusty Cobb, Best Working M Pistol Rick O Shea Russ, SASS #5675 SASS #18100 Cowboy Crusty Cobb, SASS #2221 L .22 Pistol Lilly Bell James, B-Western Roy Mason, SASS #18100 L M Pistol Nelly, SASS #11609 SASS #53452 SASS #16132 C Cowboy Norweigen Bounty Cowboy Trap Emmet, SASS #975 L .22 Rifle Nelly, SASS #11609 Modern Rick O Shea, Hunter, SASS #42646 L Cowboy Trap Bea A. Starr, Are Ya Fast Enough Stage SASS #2221 Young Gun Lt.Buford Stewart SASS #28873 Rick O Shea, L Modern Nelly, SASS #24695 Buckaroo Silver Dollar Fur & Feather Trap SASS #2221 Duelist Amos MacDandee, Sharpshooter, Cole Monroe, L Are Ya Fast Enough Stage SASS #6211 SASS #51529 SASS #40435 Nelly, SASS #11609 L Duelist Goldie Stone, Best Dressed L Fur & Feather Trap Wild Bunch Stage SASS #18860 Victorian Male Inspector Abberline, Kid Karen, Rick O Shea Russ, Gunfighter Tom Sunday, SASS #55196 SASS #17249 SASS #2221 SASS #5812 Victorian Female Lady Waha, Speed L Wild Bunch Stage L Gunfighter Adah Isaacs Menken, SASS #50230 Rifle Runamuck, The Elder Katie, SASS #3844 Military One Star Charlie, SASS #99362 SASS #5707 F Cartridge Crisco, SASS #3621 SASS #55595 L Rifle Pinto Annie, Couple s Event F C Duelist Big Iron Buster, B-Western Roy Mason, SASS #27966 Rick O Shea Russ, SASS #9361 SASS #16132 Pistol Shalako Tucker, SASS #2221, & Frontiersman Hellgate, SASS #3302 L Traditional Soiled Dove, SASS #27964 Nelly, SASS #11609 Senior Middle Fork Jake, SASS #17365 L Pistol Pinto Annie, Plainsman Event Runamuck, SASS #7728 SASS #27966 SASS #49216 May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 79

(Continued from previous page) was “who” would be doing the kiss- hour! Afterward, they could hardly had been part of RU Cowboy Action ing! Since it was the MacDandee compose themselves enough to shoot Shooting™ for as many years as clan idea, it just made sense they their potato guns at targets, which is most could remember, but not this would be the kissers! Right! The something we’ve been doing for year. Her husband, Outlaw Ogger, music started, and announcer years, but they managed. SASS #15855, still RO’ed all week- Lawbreaker, SASS #32106, had After they started with the pota- end and managed to shuffle their them lined up and drooling for those to guns, several of the ladies went to other two little ones around so they sweet kisses, when out walked Moe the hospital with pictures, posters, could at least join in the fun. MacDandee, SASS #6210, followed cards, and the money collected for Back to the mission. Nellie by a suspicious looking Will Mac- Indian Girl. She was delighted to see Belle, SASS #24695, Chado Momma, Dandee, SASS #6213, a bug eyed all of us thinking we had just popped SASS #50597, Pinto Annie, SASS Mudflat Mike, SASS #20904, the in to visit. When she was told about #27966, Sweet Pea MacDandee, scared Daddy Outlaw Ogger, and the the kissing booth, and given the SASS #9135, Goldie Stone, SASS hairy chested Wild Bill Halfcock, money, it made for lots of smiles and #18860, They’l Perish, SASS #40009, SASS #9047, and not to be outdone a few tears. She was very thankful, and Machado, SASS #25309, plus Doollee MacDandee, SASS #6212. and the financial relief was obvious. others were all selling “kissing Drinks were spilled, tables over- And so there you have it. We booth” tickets to be collected at the turned, tickets ripped up and thrown have a match we hope is somewhat Saturday evening dinner. The ladies in the air, and the best Doollee challenging, set up for safety, and sold tickets to the cowboys, and our MacDandee jumping over the fence sends everyone home with a good great looking cowboys sold them to ... dress and all to run down one of feeling. Besides what is a family? the cowgirls. the cowboys for a kiss! I think peo- SASS is a family! We just happen to What they failed to tell everyone ple laughed nonstop for over an be a shooting family. Page 80 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

‘SHOOTOUT AT THREE RIVERS By Marilla Bailey, SASS #32947 Photos by Coyote Rose Yazzie, SASS #3326

armington, NM – The buzzards the Tres Rios Bandidos in Fand the crows looked hopeful as Farmington, NM Territory. the shootout between the good guys It took three days, August and gals and the bad varmints 25th through 27th, with began. It was the 5th Annual lots of cagey maneuvers Shootout at Three Rivers, hosted by and careful shooting to avoid elimination. Can’t rightly say who won, as I believe a few of each man- aged to crawl out of Bandido Gulch with their boots and hats still on. Some even managed a grin or two. On Friday the pot shoots and side matches began with a new attrac- Two additional perennial winners, Long Step tion this year—Cowboy and Wicked Felina take time for a photo op. Trap and Cowboy Skeet. Long Step was top Traditional and took second place overall, while Wicked Felina Ogallala Cat, SASS #64678, Also new was a warm-up Evil Roy shot another clean match garnered first place Lady Senior. rides a short horse and dispenses stage with moving targets, and took Top Honors. They were also the respective winners western justice during which was a real hoot. He is seen here with ever happy of the man-on-man and woman-on-woman Shootout At Three Rivers. (Continued on next page) Daisy Jane, top Lady 49er. competitions. May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 81

(Continued from previous page) recognitions were given to Noxious There were door prizes awaiting all Nan, SASS #20303, for Best Dressed the shooters at the clubhouse, includ- Woman, Sachel Lass, SASS #64395, ing some valued at $120. A tricked Best Dressed Man, TA Chance, SASS out Norinco Model ‘97 shotgun #4072, for Classic Cowboy, and Daisy donated by El Mulo Vacquero, SASS Jane, SASS #25191, as Soiled Dove. #55942, Griner Gunworks, was raf- Awards were given for the pot shoots fled off with proceeds again going to and side matches. the SASS Scholarship program. Sunday was more dry gulching; Also, Largo Casey, SASS #19191, then pot shoots and man- on- man donated two pairs of targets that shootoffs. What a blast! Next came were auctioned off and added to the the award ceremonies with a few SASS scholarship fund … total this surprises and lots of big smiles. A job year of $900. Wow! well done and the awards well On Saturday night we headed to deserved. town for a very nice banquet at the A warm thank you to all who par- Best Western Inn. Again, our mayor ticipated. Finally, it was breaking up and his lovely wife showed up. I’m camp and heading home time. Saw beginning to think he just likes to some pretty tired hombres leaving keep an eye on us, or could it be he town. Hopefully, they will mosey needs to stay in our good graces. He back for the next Shootout at Three is one fine dude, and we do mean to Rivers scheduled for August 24th- keep him in office! 26th, 2007. Contact O’Bar Freddie It turned out to be a nice evening at [email protected] for more info, of over-indulgence and fool hardy and also inquire about the upcoming laughter and merriment. Costume Buffalo Shoot this spring!

Winners Modern Colorado Blackjack, Clean Match & Overall SASS #58441 Evil Roy, SASS #2883 Senior Evil Roy, SASS #2883 Categories Senior Duelist Ruff Cobb, 49’er Blastmaster SASS #7548 C Cowboy TA Chance, Traditional Long Step, SASS #4072 SASS #28354 Duelist Piedra Kidd, SASS #34070 Side Matches E Statesman O Bar Freddie, Long Range Rifle SASS #22369 (SS)Smokeless Drew Lefty, Frontiersman Shaky Shane, SASS #72339 SASS #22346 (SS)Blackpowder F Cartridge Rex M. Rugers, Ole Wise SASS, SASS #6621 SASS #55311 VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT WWW.SASSNET.COM F C Duelist Laramie Jack, L A, R C J B Fast, SASS #48809 SASS #15395 Gunfighter Brushy Bill, , 30/30 SASS #44261 Blanco Billy Bagley, L 49er Daisy Jane, SASS #47024 tied SASS #25191 Silver Claw, ADVERTISING L Duelist Mist Chance, SASS #23007 SASS #15391 300 yd. Bears Drew Lefty tied INFORMATION L Gunfighter Shotgun Shell, Hoss Styles, SASS #50019 SASS #60966 L Modern Cicada, SASS #21345 Cowboy Trap Blanco Billy Bagley ASK FOR L Senior Wicked Felina, tied Ole Wise SASS #3483 Cowboy Skeet J B Fast L Traditional Lady Long Step, ~ DONNA ~ SASS #52280 Donna Oakley (EXT. 118) SASS #13013 Page 82 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007 May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 83

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SUBMITTING MATERIAL TO THE COWBOY CHRONICLE . . . (Continued from page 25) trude through the frame when the tences that tell the reader something hammer is down, ensuring there is no about the contents of the picture … way for any primer to be struck,” are what is the picture showing … why is both examples of “captions.” Cap- that significant … why is that inter- tioned photos are so much better than esting. For instance, “The club spent “just a bunch of pictures.” If you the last year building these range would also like to submit several (less buildings that provide shelter from than 10) images that reflect the main both the hot sun and the spring rains feeling and spirit of your match, than we have every year,” or “The hammer be all means do so. Sometimes a cap- mounted firing pin is evident when tion for the small collage is also appro- the revolver is cocked, but as can be priate. Tell us why you selected that seen in the picture, it does not pro- (Continued on next page) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 89

(Continued from previous page) printing. It’s easy and convenient That’s a five-inch picture at 200 Recap set of images for a collage. to put a bunch of small images in a dots per inch. Collage photos can be Submit text in Word files; photos Photos can also be submitted via zipped folder and e-mail them … just a tad smaller. The bottom line as large .jpg files. Caption the pho- e-mail … a few at a time. Put up to the transmission time is short. … bigger pictures are better than tos. E-mail material whenever pos- four photos in a folder, zip it, and However, these small images are smaller pictures! sible; send CD/DVD otherwise. attach the zipped folder to an e-mail really not useable … and if they are If you don’t have the patience to Handwritten material will not be message. Captions should be docu- used, the quality will be very low. e-mail the pictures, put them on a published. mented in a separate Word file. For You won’t be proud of your article. CD or DVD and send them to the When e-mailed material is each of the images, indicate the Take your pictures at “high resolu- SASS office (attention Tex). If you received, it will be acknowledged via image file name followed by the cap- tion” … at least 3 megapixils, but send a CD of pictures, please put return mail. If you don’t get an tion. Put all the captions in a single five or more megapixil photos work your article on the CD as well. It acknowledgement, call the office file. Put this Word file in the zipped best. These pictures will be con- helps to keep everything together. and inquire. folder with the images. verted to .tifs, lightened for publica- By the way … if you are using If there are ever any questions, Images can be submitted as .jpg tion, and cropped. After processing, “sessions” on your PC (so you can please don’t hesitate to ask. files … they’re smaller than .tif the images should still have one write to your CD multiple times) it Everyone’s goal is to produce the files, which are used for actual side at least 1000 pixils in size. will be unreadable on the Mac. best Cowboy Chronicle possible! Page 90 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007 May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 91 Page 92 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Alaska 49er’s 1st Sat & 3rd Sun David Cook 907-243-0181 Birchwood AK Gold Coast Gunslingers 1st Sat L. Topay 305-233-5756 Fort Lauderdale FL Golden Heart Shootist Society 2nd Sat & Last Sun Ruby Lil 907-488-0792 Chatanika AK Big River Rangers 1st Sat Nimrod Long 850-592-5665 Grand Ridge FL Juneau Gold Miners Posse 3rd Sun Jack Colton 907-321-5845 Juneau AK Howey In the Hills Cowboys 1st Sat Lady Robin 352-429-2587 Howey in the Hills FL North Alabama Regulators 1st Sun Six String 256-582-3621 Woodville AL Hernando County Regulators 1st Sun Shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville FL Alabama Rangers 2nd Sun RC Moon 205-410-5707 Brierfield AL The Hatbill Gang 1st Sun Santa Fe River Stan 386-423-2495 Titusville FL Gallant Gunfighters 3rd & 5th Sun Buck D. Law 256-504-4366 Gallant AL Resurrection Rangers 2nd Sat Tennessee Tonto 813-920-4280 Brooksville FL Vulcan Long Rifles 3rd Sat Havana Jim 205-979-2931 Hoover AL Fort White Cowboy Cavalry 2nd Sat Delta Glen 352-317-2357 Fort White FL Cahaba Cowboys 3rd Sun Duke Slade 205-854-0483 Argo AL Okeechobee Marshals 2nd Sat & 4th Sun Lead Pusher 561-793-5024 Indiantown FL Old York Shootist 4th Sun Derringer Di 205-647-6925 Hoover AL Tater Hill Gunfighters 2nd Sun Judge JD Justice 941-743-4043 Arcadia FL Mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st Sat Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 Hot Springs AR Weewahootee Vigilance Running W Regulators 1st Sat & 3rd Sun AR Mule Skinner 501-824-2590 Lincoln AR Committee 2nd Sun Weewahootee 407-857-1107 Orlando FL Critter Creek Citizens Vigilance 1st Sun Evil Bob 903-838-3897 Fouke AR Panhandle Cowboys 2nd Sun Panhandle B. Kid 850-432-1968 Pensacola FL Outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th Sat Ozark Outlaw 501-362-2963 Heber Springs AR Southwest Florida Gunslingers 3rd Sat Duke Bedford 239-352-0721 Punta Gorda FL Judge Parker’s Marshals 2nd Sat Reno Sparks 918-647-9704 Fort Smith AR Martin County Marshals 3rd Sat Jasper Jim 561-747-4487 Stuart FL Arkansas Lead Slingers 2nd Sat & 4th Sun Dirty Dan Paladin 479-633-2107 Bentonville AR Lake County Pistoleros 3rd Sat Brocky Jack Norton 352-409-3693 Tavares FL South Fork River Regulators 3rd Sat Kid Thorn 870-488-5447 Salem AR Miakka Misfits 3rd Sun Lulu Ann 941-322-0846 Myakka City FL True Grit SASS 4th Sun Sister Sundance 479-968-7129 Belleville AR Indian River Regulators 4th Sat Turkey Creek Red 321-728-7928 Palm Bay FL Rio Salado Cowboy Action Panhandle Cattle Company 4th Sat Tac Hammer 850-785-6535 Port St. Joe FL Shooting Society 1st Sat AZ Lightning Jack 480-820-7372 Mesa AZ Cowford Regulators 4th Sun Cowford Kid 904-219-3795 Jacksonville FL Cochise Gunfighters 1st Sat I.B. 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Star 520-744-3869 Tucson AZ American Old West Cowboys 1st Sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 Flintstone GA Colorado River Regulators 2nd Sun Crowheart 928-855-2893 Lake Havasu AZ Valdosta Vigilance Committee 1st Sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta GA El Diablo de Tucson 2nd Sun Big BooBoo 520-370-0806 Tucson AZ Lonesome Valley Regulators 1st Sun Wishbone Hooper 478-922-9384 Warner Robins GA Dusty Bunch Old Doc Holliday’s Immortals 2nd Sat Easy Rider 770-954-9696 Griffin GA Western Shooters 3rd Sat Squibber 520-568-2852 Casa Grande AZ Pale Riders 2nd Sat Will Killigan 706-568-0869 Mauk GA White Mountain Old Mule Camp Cowboys 3rd Sat San Quinton 706-540-0400 Covington GA West Shootists 3rd Sat Fred Sharps 928-532-7820 Taylor AZ Cherokee Cowboys 4th Sat Southern Breeze 770-889-2434 Gainesville GA Los 3rd Sat Ole Deadeye 520-749-1186 Tucson AZ Maui Marshals 1st & 3rd Sat Bad Burt 808-875-9085 Maui HI Tonto Rim Marauders 3rd Sun Silverado Cid 928-474-8649 Payson AZ Turkeyfoot Cowboys 1st Sat (Mar-Nov) Kingdom Kid 319-351-7572 Evandale IA Altar Valley Pistoleros 3rd Sun Hidalgo 520-665-2222 Tucson AZ Iowa South West Shootist 1st Sun (Apr-Oct) Colonel J. Fighters 402-291-2053 Glenwood IA Mohave Marshalls 3rd Sun & 5th Sun Mizkiz 928-753-4266 Kingman AZ Zen Shootists 4th Sat (Mar-Oct) Cap Horn 515-999-2089 Nevada IA Arizona Yavapai Rangers 4th Sat Johnny Meadows 928-567-9227 Camp Verde AZ Southeast Idaho Practical Shooters 1st Sat Idaho Packer 208-589-5941 Idaho Falls ID Tombstone Buscaderos 4th Sat Diamond Pak 520-743-0179 Tombstone AZ Squaw Butte Regulators 1st Sun & 2nd Sat Acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 Emmett ID YRL-High Country Cowboys 4th Sun J. P. Trouble 928-445-2468 Prescott AZ El Buscaderos 2nd & 4th Sun Cap’N Crump 509-447-7956 Spirit Lake ID Colorado River Shootists 4th Sun ClueLass 928-726-7727 Yuma AZ Northwest Shadow Riders 2nd Sat Silverado Belle 208-743-5765 Lewiston ID Sunnyvale Regulators 1st & 3rd Mon Billy Two Bears 408-739-4436 Cupertino CA Southern Idaho Rangers 2nd Sat Snake River Dutch 208-237-2419 Pocatello ID Silver Queen Mine Regulators 1st & 3rd Sun Walks Fletcher 310-539-8202 Azusa CA Oregon Trail Rough Riders 2nd Sun & 3rd Sat Pinkeye Pinkerton 208-922-3671 Boise ID West End Outlaws 1st &3rd Sat Rob Banks 714-206-6893 Meyers Canyon CA Hell’s Canyon Ghost Riders 3rd Sat J.P. Sloe 208-798-0826 Moscow ID Escondido Bandidos 1st Sat Devil Jack 760-741-3229 Escondido CA Twin Butte Bunch 3rd Sat Idaho Packer 208-589-5941 Rexburg ID The Outlaws 1st Sat Jackalope Jasper 530-344-8121 Sloughouse CA Panhandle Regulators 3rd Sun Headshot 208-245-4743 Plummer ID Lassen Regulators 1st Sat Earl 530-253-3868 Susanville CA Snake River Western Two Rivers Posse 1st Sat & 4th Sun Tejano Viejo 209-847-6818 Manteca CA Shooting Society 4th Sat Missy Mable 208-731-6387 Jerome ID River City Regulators 1st Sun Max Sand 916-359-4041 Davis CA Border Maurauders As Sched Mud Marine 208-597-6191 Booners Ferry ID Mother Lode Shootist Society 1st Sun Dusty Webster 209-728-2309 Jamestown CA Shady Creek Shootists 1st & 4th Sun Dapper Dan Porter 309-734-2324 Little York IL Hole In The Wall Gang 1st Sun K. C., U. S. Marshal 310-640-3653 Piru CA The Lakewood Marshal’s 1st Sat Pine Ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne IL 5 Dogs Creek 1st Wknd Almost Dangerous 760-376-4493 Bakersfield CA Rangeless Riders 1st Sat The Inspector 618-345-5048 Highland IL Cajon Cowboys 2nd & 4th Sat Bojack 760-956-5044 Devore CA Boneyard Creek Regulators 1st Sun Wild Pike 217-356-5136 Newman IL Chorro Valley Regulators 2nd & 5th Sun Solvang Shootist 805-688-3969 San Luis Obispo CA Kishwaukee Valley Regulators 1st Sun MT Mnt Man Mike 815-899-0046 Sycamore IL Shasta Regulators Of Hat Creek 2nd Sat Cayenne Pepper 530-275-3158 Burney CA Tri County Cowboys 2nd Sat Sierra Hombre 815-967-6333 Hazelhurst IL California Rangers 2nd Sat Melvin P. 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Chinaman 812-426-0793 Newburgh IN Pozo River Vigilance Committee 4th Sat Dirty Sally 805-438-4817 Santa Margarita CA Schuster’s Rangers 2nd Sun Coal Car Kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton IN California Shady Ladies 4th Sat Lady Gambler 916-447-2040 Sloughhouse CA Pleasant Valley Renegades 2nd Wknd Lizzy of the Valley 812-945-0221 Canaan IN Hawkinsville Claim Jumpers 4th Sat Deacon Doug 530-926-4538 Yreka CA Thunder Valley 3rd Sat Redneck Rebel 812-755-4237 Campbellsburg IN FaultLine Shootist Society 4th Sun Querida 831-636-3348 Gonzales CA Stark County Desert 3rd Sat Whip Mccord 219-942-5859 Knox IN The Range 4th Sun Grass V.Federally 530-273-4440 Grass Valley CA High Ground Regulators 3rd Sat Apr. - Nov. Blackjack Max 765-832-3324 W. Terre Haute IN The Cowboys 4th Sun Captain Jake 714-536-2635 Norco CA 10 O’clock Line Shootist Club 3rd Sun Bunsen Rose 765-832-6620 Cayuga IN Sloughhouse Irregulators 5th Sat & Sun Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 Sloughhouse CA Deer Creek Regulators 4th Sun C. Bubba McCoy 765-948-4487 Jonesboro IN Colorado Cowboys 1st Sat Mule Creek 719-748-3398 Lake George CO Wildwood Wranglers 4th Sun VOODOOMAN 219-872-2721 Michigan City IN San Juan Rangers 1st Sun Sapinero 970-323-6566 Montrose CO Indiana Black Powder Guild 5th Sat Manatee 317-640-0172 Paradise Pass IN Colorado Shaketails 1st Sun Yaro 303-646-3777 Ramah CO Butterfield Gulch Gang 1st Sun Polecat Ron 785-827-8149 Chapman KS Windygap Regulators 1st Wknd Crimson Sue 970-565-8573 Cortez CO Powder Creek Cowboys 2nd Sat & 4th Wed Shawnee Shamus 913-236-8812 Lenexa KS Four Corners Rifle and Pistol Club 2nd Sun Capt. W. K. Kelso 970-565-8960 Cortez CO Mill Brook Wranglers 2nd Sun Grandpa B. Millbrook 785-421-2537 Hill City KS Montrose Marshals 2nd Sun Big Hat 970-249-7701 Montrose CO Free State Rangers 3rd Buffalo Phil 913-898-4911 Parker KS Rifle Creek Rangers 2nd Sun Miles Coffee 970-625-0657 Rifle CO Sand Hill Regulators 3rd Sat Latigo Max 620-663-8666 Hutchinson KS Rockvale Bunch 3rd Sat Nevada Steel 719-784-6683 Rockvale CO Capital City Cowboys 4th Sun Newton 785-765-3915 Topeka KS Pawnee Station 3rd Sat Red River Wrangler 970-225-0545 Wellington CO Kentucky Regulators 1st Sat Kentucky Dover 270-658-3247 Boaz KY Four Corners Gunslingers 3rd Sun Cerveza Slim 970-247-0745 CO Hooten Old Town Regulators 1st Sat (Mar - Dec) Bullfork Shotgun Red 606-776-6719 Mckee KY Castle Peak Wildshots 3rd Sun Old Squinteye 970-524-9348 Gypsum CO Knob Creek Gunfighters Guild 1st Sun Cumberland Drifter 502-548-3860 Shepardsville KY Thunder Mountain Shootists 3rd Wknd Pinto Being 970-464-7118 Grand Junction CO Green River Gunslingers 2nd Sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling Green KY Pawnee Sportsmens Center 4th Sat Governor General 970-656-3851 Briggsdale CO Crab Orchard Cowboy Shootist 2nd Sat Rowdy Fulcher 270-389-9402 Clay KY Northwest Colorado Rangers 4th Sat Sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 Craig CO Kentucky Longrifles Cowboys 2nd Sat Bullfork Shotgun Red 606-784-0067 Morehead KY Sand Creek Raiders 4th Sun Sweet Water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers CO Ohio River Rangers 2nd Sat Jim Spears 270-443-5216 Paducah KY Black Canyon Ghost Riders 4th Sun Double Bit 970-874-8745 Hotchkiss CO Lonesome Pine Pistoleros 2nd Sun Isom Kid 606-633-4465 Jeremiah KY Ledyard Sidewinders 1st Sat Yosemite Gene 860-536-0887 Ledyard CT Highland Regulators, Inc 3rd & 4th Wknd Hezekiah Hawke 859-250-7766 Winfield KY Echo Ridge Regulators 1st Sun Shiloh Beck 203-467-9577 Colechester CT Highland Regulators, Inc 3rd & 4th Sun Hezekiah Hawke 859-250-7766 Winfield KY Congress of Rough Riders 1st Sun Snake Eyes F. Tanner 203-612-8855 Naugatuck CT Fox Bend Peacemakers 4th Sun Tioga Kid 859-277-9693 Wilmore KY CT Valley Bushwackers 2nd Sun Johnny Pecos 413-572-2820 East Granby CT Devil Swamp Gang 1st Sat Captain Parker 985-537-7725 Thibodaux LA Homesteaders Shooting Club 3rd Sun Kidd Reno 860-536-3342 Ledyard CT Up The Creek Gang 2nd & 4th Sat Hardly Able 337-474-5058 Lake Charles LA Padens Posse 3rd Sun Deacon Will 302-422-6534 Seaford DE Bayou Bounty Hunters 2nd Sat Soiled Dove 985-796-9698 Amite LA If your Listing is incorrect, please notify SASS office (714) 694-1800. (Continued on page 102) Page 102 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) (Continued from page 101) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Cajun Cowboy Shooters Society 2nd Sun Durango Dan 225-752-2288 Baton Rouge LA Monument Springs Bushwhackers 4th Sat William Emett 505-392-0607 Hobbs NM Cypress Creek Cowboys 2nd Wknd Mav Dutchman 318-396-6320 Downsville LA Picacho Posse 4th Sat Fast Hammer 505-647-3434 Las Cruces NM Grand Ecore Vigilantes 3rd Sat Ouachita Kid 318-932-6637 Natchitoches LA Tres Rios Bandidos 4th Sun Long Step 505-325-4493 Farmington NM Deadwood Marshals 3rd Sat Barkeeps 225-715-8711 Sorrento LA High Plains Drifters 1st Sun Fernley 775-575-3131 Fernley NV Shawsheen River Rangers As Sched Yukon Willie 978-663-3342 Bedford MA Eldorado Cowboys 1st Wknd Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City NV Harvard Ghost Riders As Sched Yosemite Kid 781-373-2411 Harvard MA Pahrump Cowboy Shooters Mansfield Marauders As Sched Mohawk Mac 508-369-5093 Mansfield MA Association 2nd Sun Iona Vaquero 775-727-5897 Amargosa Valley NV Danvers Desperados As Sched Cyrus Cy Klopps 781-667-2857 Middleton MA Nevada Rangers Cowboy Gunnysackers Sat Nantucket Dawn781-749-6951 Scituate MA Action Shooting Society 2nd Sun Cactus McHarg 702-644-5903 Jean NV Nashoba Valley Regulators Thurday Patsy Shenandoah 978-897-5407 Harvard MA Roop County Cowboy Eas’dern Shore Renegades 1st Sat Slash Eight 410-648-6829 Sudlersville MD Shooters Assn. 2nd Sun Russ T. Chambers 775-747-1426 Sparks NV Thurmont Rangers 1st Sun Cody Conagher 304-258-1419 Thurmont MD Silver State Shootists Club 3rd Sun Tahoe Bill 775-586-9178 Carson City NV St. Charles Sportsman’s Desert Desperados 3rd Sun Buffalo Sam 702-459-6454 Las Vegas NV Club Cowboy Action 2nd Sat Rufus Lupus 301-499-7879 Waldorf MD Silver City Shooters Society 4th Sun Daisy Mayhem 702-896-1174 Indian Springs NV Damascus Wildlife Rangers 4th Sat (Mar-Nov) Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Damascus MD Bar D Hombre’s 5th Sun Madd Mike 775-727-7476 Pahrump NV Monocacy Irregulars As Sched Church Key 304-229-8266 Frederick MD Lone Wolf Shooters, LLC As Sched. Penny Pepperbox 775-727-4600 Pahrump NV Potomac Rangers at SCSC As Sched Tennessee Slim 301-743-7664 Waldorf MD Tioga County Cowboys 1st Sat Empty Cases 607-699-3307 Owego NY Capitol City Vigilance Committee As Sched Mark Lake 207-622-9400 Augusta ME Pathfinder Pistoleros 1st Sun Sonny 315-695-7032 Fulton NY Blue Hill Regulators As Sched Dangerous D. Dalton 207-667-3586 Blue Hill ME Bar-20, Inc. 2nd Sat Renegade Ralph 315-363-5342 West Eaton NY Hurricane Valley Rangers As Sched Leo 207-829-3092 Falmouth ME Hole In The Wall Gang 2nd Sun Rowdy Rube 631-474-0002 Calverton NY Beaver Creek Desperados As Sched Jimmy Reb 207-698-4436 Sanford/Springvale ME Regulators 2nd Sun Colonel Bill 845-352-7921 Chester NY Big Pine Bounty Hunters As Sched Ripley Scrounger 207-876-4928 Willmantic ME Border Rangers 2nd Sun (Apr-Oct) Badlands Buzz 607-898-3581 Greene NY Rockford Regulators 1st Sat No Cattle 616-363-2827 Rockford MI Diamond Four 3rd Sat Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 Odessa NY Sucker Creek Saddle & Gun Club 2nd Sat Rodeo Road 989-205-0096 Breckenridge MI Panorama Trail Regulators 3rd Sat Twelve Bore 585-613-8046 Penfield NY River Bend Rangers 2nd Sat Jonathan Slim Chance 574-277-9712 Buckanan MI Circle K Regulators 3rd Sun Smokehouse Dan 518-885-3758 Ballston Spa NY Timber Town Marshals 3rd Sat Dakota Duchess 989-689-3891 Midland MI D Bar D Wranglers 4th Sat Captain Maf 845-226-8611 Wappingers Fall NY Chippewa Regulators 3rd Sat Yooper Fred 906-635-9700 Sault Ste. Marie MI The Long Riders 4th Sun Loco Poco Lobo 585-467-4429 Shortsville NY Rocky River Regulators 3rd Sun Chili Pepper Pete 586-301-2778 Utica MI The Shadow Riders As Sched Snake River Cowboy 631-477-1090 Westhampton Beach NY Hidden Valley Cowbays 3rd. Sun Triple Creek Shorty 269-273-8334 Sturgis MI East End Regulators Last Sun Diamond Rio 631-585-1936 Westhampton NY Eagleville Cowboys 4th Sat Thummper John 231-377-7232 Central Lake MI Big Irons 1st Sat Deadwood Stan 513-894-3500 Middletown OH Double Barrel Gang 4th Sat Slippery Pete 269-838-6944 Hastings MI Middletown Sportsmens Club, Inc. 1st Sat Deadwood Stan 513-894-3500 Middletown OH Johnson Creek Regulators 4th Sat Cheyenne Raider 734-355-6333 Plymouth MI Tusco Long Riders 1st Sat Split Rail 330-364-6185 Midvale OH West Walker Rangers As Sched Two Rig A Tony 616-891-6917 Grand Rapids MI Firelands Peacemakers 1st Wed, Saginaw Field & Stream Club As Sched Katie Callahan 989-585-3292 Saginaw MI 3rd Sat & 5th Sun Johnny Shiloh 440-984-4551 Rochester OH Lapeer County Sportsmans Sandusky County Regulators 2nd Sat Kenny Vaquero 419-874-6929 Gibsonburg OH Club Wranglers Sun Ricochet Bill 810-441-2438 Attica MI Miami Valley Cowboys 2nd Sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 Piqua OH Cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd Sat Kaycee McCaylum 507-455-1101 Morristown MN Shenango River Rats 2nd Sun Crow River Rangers 1st Sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 Howard Lake MN & 4th Sat (May-Oct) Shenango Joe 330-782-0958 Yankee Lake OH Lookout Mountain Scioto Territory Desperados Inc. 3rd & 5th Sun Lucky Levi Loving 740-745-1220 Chillicothe OH Gunsmoke Society 3rd Sat Wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Virginia MN Wilmington Rough Riders 3rd Sat Paragon Pete 740-626-7667 Wilmington OH East Grand Forks Rod & Gun Club 3rd Sun BB Gunner 218-779-8555 East Grand Forks MN AuGlaize Rough Riders 3rd Sun Doc Carson 419-782-7837 Defiance OH Ike’s Clantons 4th Sun (Apr-Sep) Dawgnapper 507-276-2255 New Ulm MN Ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th Sat Rowdy K 419-529-0887 Mt. Vernon OH The Ozark Posse 1st Sat Tightwade Swede 417-847-0018 Cassville MO Briar Rabbit Rangers 4th Sat Grizzly Killer 330-204-4606 Zanesville OH Rocky Branch Rangers 1st Sun Iza Littleoff 816-524-1462 Higginsville MO Central Ohio Cowboys 4th Sun Buffalo Balu 740-569-3206 Circleville OH Moniteau Creek River Raiders 2nd Sun Doolin Riggs 573-687-3103 Fayette MO Jackson Six Shooters Last Sat (Mar-Oct) Flat Iron Fred 330-538-2690 North Jackson OH Gateway Shootist Society 3rd Sun Bounty Seeker 636-464-6569 St. Louis MO Rattlesnake Mountain Rangers 1st Sat Black River Jack 918-908-0016 Checotah OK Central Ozarks Western Shooters 3rd Sun X S Chance 573-765-5483 St. Robert MO Shortgrass Rangers 1st Sat & 3rd Sun Captain Allyn Capron 580-357-5870 Grandfield OK Southern Missouri Rangers 4th Wknd Smokie 417-759-9114 Willard MO Cherokee Strip Shootists 1st Sun Querida Kate 405-372-0208 Stillwater OK Natchez Six Gunners 1st Sat Winchester 601-445-5223 Natchez MS Oklahoma City Gun Club 2nd Sat & 4th Sun Stonewall 405-739-0545 Oklahoma Cty OK Mississippi Peacemakers 3rd Sat Squinter 601-825-8640 Mendenhall MS Indian Territory Single Mississippi River Rangers 4th & 5th Sat Easy Lee 662-838-7451 Byhalia MS Action Shooting Society 2nd Sun, 3rd Sat, Mississippi Regulators 4th Sat Lone Yankee 601-249-3315 McComb MS 4th Wed, & 5th Sun Montana Dan 918-313-0249 Coweta OK Honorable Road Agents Flying W Outlaws 3rd & 5th Sat Papa Don 580-225-5515 Elk City OK Shooting Society 1st Sat Diamond Red 406-685-3618 Ennis MT Tater Hill Regulators 3rd Sun Taos Willie 918-355-2849 Tulsa OK Sun River Rangers Orygun Cowboys & Cowgirls 1st Mon, Shooting Society 1st Sun & 4th Sat Wapiti Willie 406-454-2809 Simms MT 2nd Sun & 3rd Sat Transit Man 503-864-3311 Sherwood OR Gallatin Valley Regulators 2nd Sat Missouri River Kid 408-587-2072 Logan MT Molalla River Rangers 1st Sat Gold Dust Bill 503-705-1211 Canby OR Rocky Mountain Rangers 2nd Wknd Jocko 406-847-0745 Noxon MT Merlin Marauders 1st Sat Rogue Rascal 541-472-8585 Grants Pass OR Bigfork Buscaderos 3rd Sat Bodie Camp 406-883-6797 Bigfork MT Dry Gulch Desperados 1st Sat G. D. R. Goldvein 509-394-2418 Milton Freewater OR Last Chance Handgunners 3rd Sat Bocephus Bandito 406-439-4476 Boulder MT Horse Ridge Pistoleros 1st Sun Texas Jack Morales 541-923-3000 Bend OR Rosebud Drygulchers 3rd Sun Sgt. Blue 406-356-7885 Forsyth MT Siuslaw River Rangers 1st Sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 Florence OR Montana Territory Peacemakers 4th Sat Backstrap Bill 406-652-6158 Billings MT Table Rock Rangers 1st Sun & 2nd Sat Checotah 541-772-9941 White City OR Yellowstone Regulators 4th Sat Chisler Wood 307-690-2676 W. Yellowstone MT Fort Dalles Defenders 2nd Sat & 4th Sun Mallard 541-993-3663 The Dalles OR Greasy Grass Scouts Call to Shoot Prairie Annie 406-638-2438 Garryowen MT Klamath Cowboys 2nd Sun Rambling Dave 541-273-1055 Keno OR Flatwood’s Cowboys 1st Sat William Tompskins 910-325-1049 Hubert NC Jefferson State Regulators 3rd Sat Jed I. Knight 541-944-2281 Ashland OR Old Hickory Regulators 1st Sat Father Time 252-291-3184 Rocky Mount NC Oregon Trail Regulators 3rd Sat Road Agent 541-963-2237 La Grande OR Walnut Grove Rangers 1st Sat Hiem 828-245-5563 Rutherfordton NC Oregon Old West Shooting Society 3rd Sun & 4th Sat Mid Valley Drifter 541-259-2774 Albany OR Old North State Posse 1st Sat Layden 704-279-7161 Salisbury NC Umpqua Regulators 4th Sun Big Lou 541-484-5900 Roseburg OR Carolina Rough Riders 1st Sun Pecos Pete 704-996-0756 Charlotte NC Columbia County Cowboys TBA Kitty Colt 503-642-4120 St. Helens OR High Country Cowboys 2nd Sat Wild Otter 828-423-7796 Asheville NC Chimney Rocks Regulators 1st Sat Hattie Hubbs 814-696-5669 Hollidaysburg PA Carolina Cattlemen’s Shooting Perry County Regulators 1st Sat Snappy Lady 717-789-3893 Ickesburg PA and Social Society 2nd Sat Wicken Wanda 919-266-1678 Creedmore NC Dry Gulch Rangers 1st Sat Pepc Holic 724-263-1461 Midway PA North Carolina Cowboys, Inc. 2nd Sat J. M. Brown 919-266-3751 Creedmore NC Boothill Gang of Topton 1st Sun Lester Moore 610-821-8215 Topton PA Buccaneer Range Regulators 2nd Sat Dick W. Holliday 910-520-4822 Wilmington NC Whispering Pines Carolina Single Action Cowboy Committee 1st Sun Mac Traven 570-723-8885 Wellsboro PA Shooting Society 2nd Sun Carolina Longarm 910-627-7615 Eden NC Logans Ferry Regulators 2nd Sat Mariah Kid 412-793-1496 Pittsburgh PA Gunpowder Creek Regulators 3rd Sat Horsetrader 828-754-1884 Lenoir NC Lost Dutchmen 2nd Sat Basket Lady 717-949-3970 Schaefferstown PA Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd Sat Grizzly Greg 910-424-3376 Wagram NC Mainville Marauders 2nd Sun Gettysburg 570-387-1795 Mainville PA Piedmont Gunslingers 3rd Sun Sam Carp 704-596-7120 Churchland NC Westshore Posse 2nd Sun Doc Hornaday 717-432-1352 New Cumberland PA Bostic Vigilantes 4th Sat Bostic Kid 704-434-2174 Bostic NC The Dakota Badlanders 2nd Sun Dakota J. Gunfighter 610-837-8020 Orefield PA Iredell Regulators 4th Sat Stump Water 704-630-9527 Statesville NC River Junction Shootist Society 3rd Sat Mattie Hays 724-593-6602 Donegal PA Dakota Rough Riders As Sched RoughRider Jim Bob 701-673-3122 Moffit ND Jefferson Rifle Club, Inc. 3rd Sat (Mar-Nov) Oracle Jones 410-239-6795 Jefferson PA Sheyenne Valley Peacekeepers Last Sat (Apr-Sep) Wild River Rose 701-588-4331 Kindred ND Blue Mountain Rangers 3rd Sun The Mad Tanner 610-562-8161 Hamburg PA Platte Valley Gunslingers 1st Sun Col. Horace C. Rider 308-380-9511 Grand Island NE Silver Lake Bounty Hunters 3rd Sun Marshal T. J. Buckshot 570-663-3045 Montrose PA Oregon Trail Regulators, NE 2nd Sat Pvt. J. Southwick 307-837-2919 Scottsbluff NE Purgatory 3rd Wknd Dry Gulch Geezer 814-827-2120 Titusville PA Alliance Cowboy Club 2nd Sun Panhandle Slim Miles 308-760-0568 Alliance NE Elstonville Hombres 4th Sun Basket Lady 717-949-3970 Manheim PA Eastern Nebraska Gun Club 2nd Sun Flint Valdez 712-323-8996 Louisville NE Stewart’s Regulators 4th Sun Sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 Shelocta PA Flat Water Shootists of the El Posse Grande 4th Sun (Mar-Oct) Black Hills Barb 570-538-9163 Muncy Valley PA Grand Island Rifle Club 3rd Sun Wes Beckett 308-226-2651 Grand Island NE Conestoga Wagoneers As Sched No Change 215-431-2302 Southampton PA The Shooting Club, Lincoln County Lawmen 4th Sun Longshot Logan 401-334-9466 Manville RI of NH LLC 3rd Wknd (Apr-Oct) Littleton S. Dalton 603-444-6876 Dalton NH Palmetto Posse 1st Sat Dun Gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia SC White Mountain Regulators As Sched Dead Head 603-772-2358 Candia NH Piedmont Regulators 2nd Sat Chase Randall 864-843-6154 Anderson SC Pemi Valley Peacemakers As Sched Capt. Side Burns 603-539-4584 Holderness NH Hurricane Riders 3rd Sat Concho V. Charlie 843-997-4063 Aynor SC Merrimack Valley Marauders As Sched Sheriff R. P. Bucket 603-345-6876 Pelham NH Savannah River Rangers 3rd Sun Creede Kid 706-860-0549 Jackson SC Jackson Hole Gang 4th Sun (Mar-Nov) Emberado 609-466-2277 Jackson NJ Geechee Gunfighters 4th Sat Edisto Ike 843-869-2429 Ridgeville SC Magdalena Trail Drivers 1st & 3rd Sat Slippery Steve 505-835-8664 Magdalena NM Deadwood Seven Down Regulators 1st Sun Deadwood George 605-642-2301 Spearfish SD Rio Rancho Regulators 1st & 4th Sat Sam Brannan 505-400-2468 Rio Rancho NM Cottonwood Cowboy Association 2nd Sun J. D. Henry 605-886-7929 Clark SD Otero Practical Shooting Black Hills Shootist Association 3rd Sun Hawkbill Smith 605-342-8946 Pringle SD Association 1st Sat Saguaro Sam 505-437-3663 La Luz NM Bald Mountain Renegades 4th Sun Grease Cup 605-598-6744 Faulkton SD Buffalo Range Riders 1st Sun Coyote Calhoun 404-580-5985 Founders Ranch NM Wartrace Regulators 1st Sat Will Reily 615-325-9585 Wartrace TN Bighorn Vigilantes 2nd Sat Boggus Deal 505-832-1302 Edgewood NM Greene County Regulators 1st Sat Mort Dooley 423-357-8464 Rogersville TN Gila Rangers 2nd Sat Chico Cheech 505-388-2531 Silver City/Mimbres NM Memphis Gunslingers 2nd Sat Sagebrush Jim 901-380-5591 Arlington TN Lost River Cowboys 2nd Sun Whiskey R. Dave 505-623-9201 Roswell NM Smoky Mountain Shootist Society 2nd Sat Hombre Sin Nombre 865-740-3801 Oak Ridge TN Rio Grande Renegades 2nd Wed, 3rd Sat, Bitter Creek Rangers, The 3rd Sat Sunset Evans 931-484-2036 Crossville TN 4th Sun, & 5th Sat Rancid Roy 505-898-4894 Albuquerque NM Tennessee Mountain Marauders 3rd Sat Cherokee Maddog 423-309-8552 Ringgold TN Seven Rivers Regulators 3rd Sat Neches Jack 505-628-0028 Carlsbad NM North West Tennessee Longriders 3rd Sat Can’t Shoot Dillon 731-885-8102 Union City TN Lost Almost Posse 3rd Sat Buncle Steve 505-662-6034 Los Alamos NM Tennessee Trail Bums 3rd Sun Wiley Fish 931-728-5327 Manchester TN Rio Vaqueros 3rd Sun J. W. Brockey 505-744-4488 Truth or Consequences NM Ocoee Rangers 4th Sat Ocoee Red 423-476-5303 Cleveland TN If your Listing is incorrect, please notify SASS office (714) 694-1800. (Continued on page 103) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 103 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) (Continued from page 102) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State El Vaqueros 1st & Last Sun Tom Doniphan 254-559-9896 Breckenridge TX Texas Troublemakers 1st Sat Coyote Rose 903-570-9954 Brownsboro TX CANADIAN MONTHLY MATCHES Plum Creek Carriage Alberta Frontier Shootists As Sched Mustang Heart 780-464-4600 Kelsey ALB CANADA & Shooting Society 1st Sat Delta Raider 512-376-2602 Lockhart TX Rocky Mountain House Old South Texas Pistolaros 1st Sat Long John Beard 830-663-4783 San Antonio TX West Shootists As Sched Luke A. Leathersmith 403-845-4347 Rocky Mnt House ALB CANADA Comanche Trail Shootists 1st Sat & 3rd Sun Hoodoo Brown 432-682-1422 Midland TX Red Mountain Renegades 1st Sun Forty One Colt Bob 604-929-0178 Mission BC CANADA Orange County Regulators 1st Sat & 3rd Sun Nate Kiowa Jones 409-984-5473 Orange TX Valley Regulators 3rd Sat High Country Amigo 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC CANADA Buckcreek Bandaleros 1st Sat & 3rd Wknd Hoofprint Prine 254-897-7328 Nemo TX Western Canadian Frontier Old Fort Parker Patriots 1st Wknd Slowaz Molasses 254-412-0904 Groesbeck TX Shootists Society As Sched Caribou Lefty 250-372-0416 Kamloops BC CANADA Texas Peacemakers 1st Wknd Pecos Red 903-984-1951 Tyler TX Victoria Frontier Shootists As Sched Prairie Buck 250-655-1100 Victoria BC CANADA Canadian River Regulators 2nd Sat Capshaw 806-335-1660 Clarendon TX Nova Scotia Cowboy Action Texican Rangers 2nd Sat Dusty Chambers 830-896-7856 Fredericksburg TX Shooting Club 3rd Sun Wounded Belly 902-890-2310 Truro, NS NS CANADA Bounty Hunters 2nd Sat Cable Lockhart 806-299-1192 Levelland TX Waterloo County Revolver Travis County Regulators 2nd Sat Shotgun Sally 512-694-6803 Smithville TX Association 1st Sat Ranger Pappy Cooper 519-536-9184 Kitchener ON CANADA Texas Tenhorns Shooting Club 2nd Sun & Last Sat Hoss Jack 903-546-6291 Greenville TX Barrie Gun Club 2nd & 4th Sat Canadian Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie ON CANADA Lone Star Frontier Shooting Club 2nd Wknd Texas Banker 972-641-8585 Cleburne TX Wentworth Shooting Oakwood Outlaws 2nd Wknd Texas Alline 903-545-2252 Oakwood TX Sports Club 2nd Sun Stoney Creek 1-905-664-3217 Hamilton ON CANADA Big Thicket Outlaws 3rd Sat Shynee Graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont TX Otter Valley Rod & Gun Inc. 4th Sun Slick Sid 519-842-2142 Strafforduille ON CANADA Tejas Caballeros 3rd Sat Texas Heat 512-219-8280 Driftwood TX Ottawa Valley Marauders As Sched Reverend Damon Fire 613-825-8060 Ottawa ON CANADA Gruesome Gulch Gang 3rd Sat Eli Blue 806-293-2909 Plainview (Hale Aurora Desperados 1st Fri Destry 905-727-8987 Aurora ONT CANADA County) TX The Badlands of H. A. H. A. As Sched Arty Ways 905-627-4123 Ancaster ONT CANADA San Antonio Rough Riders 3rd Sat Dusty Lone Star 210-273-5517 San Antonio TX Centre de tir des Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd Sat Tracks 325-207-1094 Snyder TX Loisirs de Granby As Sched Richelieu Mike 450-658-8130 Granby QC CANADA Texas Historical Shootist Society 3rd Sun Longhaired Jim 979-373-9938 Columbus TX Red River Regulators 3rd Sun El Rio Rojo Ray 903-838-0964 Texarkana TX Comanche Valley Vigilantes 3rd Wknd Denton Dancer 214-384-3975 Cleburne TX Butterfield Trail Regulators 4th Sat Cob-Eye Zack 325-660-3048 Abilene TX EUROPE MONTHLY MATCHES Alamo Area Moderators 4th Sat Tombstone Mary 210-493-9320 San Antonio TX Sweetwater Gunslingers Austria As Sched Fra Diabolo 43-12721278 Vienna AT Purgatory Ridge Rough Riders 4th Sat Willie Ray 806-634-6622 Slaton TX Old West Shooting Society Tejas Pistoleros, Inc. 4th Wknd Texas Paladin 713-690-5313 Eagle Lake TX Switzerland As Sched Hondo Janssen 01-271-9947 Zurich CH Badlands Bar 3 4th Wknd T-Bone Dooley 903-628-5512 English TX Czech Cowboy Action Green Mountain Regulators 4th Wknd Singin’ Zeke 830-693-4215 Marble Falls TX Shooting Society As Sched George Roscoe 420-777-220248 Oparany Texas Regulators 4th Wknd Shotglass 281-259-0284 Tomball/Cypress TX (South Bohemia) CZ Coal Creek Cowboys 1st & 3rd Sat Lineas A. Puffbuster 435-680-9275 Cedar City UT Association of Western Shooters As Sched Thunderman 420-603-222-400 Prelouc CZ Big Hollow Bandits 1st Sat P.J. McCarthy 435-671-1929 Heber UT SASS Germany As Sched Santa Klaus 49-941-24924 Varies DE North Rim Regulators 1st Sat Autum Rose 435-644-5053 Kanab UT Cowboy Action Shooting-Germany Last Sat Kid O Folliard 49 170 382 9406 Edderitz DE Copenhagen Valley Regulators 1st Sat Lefty Slack 435-730-0880 Mantua UT SASS-Finland As Sched Quincannon 358-41-5794962 Finland FI Crow Seeps Cattle Company L.L.C. 1st Sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 Mayfield UT Old West Shooting Society Italy As Sched Alchimista 39-3342068337 Italy IT Dixie Desperados 2nd & 4th Sat Nitty Gritty Sandy 435-656-5211 St. George UT Honky Tonk Rebels As sched Kaboom Andy 39 335 7378551 Vigevano IT Rio Verde Rangers 2nd Sat Doc Nelson 435-564-8210 Green River UT Dutch Western Shooting Association 1st Sun Fat Bob 31-40-242-4076 Varies NL Hobble Creek Wranglers 2nd Sat Utah Rifleman 801-489-5267 Springville UT Scherpschutters Veghel 2nd Sun Cloggie Joe 31-4120-652694 Veghel NL Cache Valley Vaqueros 2nd. Sat Wasatch Ranger 435-723-1651 Logan UT Western Shooting Club Stone Valley As Sched Pete Cody 31-4-6433-1075 Stein (LB) NL Utah War 3rd & 5th Sat Jubal O. Sackett 801-944-3444 Salt Lake City UT SASS Norway As Sched Charles Quantrill 47-932-59-669 Loten NO Deseret Historical Shootist Society 3rd Sat Shorty Lamoore 435-723-8614 Kaysville UT Schedsmoe County Rough Riders Thurs Jailbird 47-6399-4279 Lillestrom NO Mesa Marauders Gun Club 3rd Sat Copper Queen 435-979-4664 Lake Powell UT British Western Shooting Society As Sched Badas Bob 16-422-53-3333 Redcar UK Roller Mill Hill Gunslingers 3rd Sat Widtsoe Kid 435-676-8382 Panquitch UT Diamond Mountain Rustlers 3rd Sat D. M. Claim Jumper 435-789-7563 Vernal UT Wasatch Summit Regulators 3rd Sun Boots Rob 435-649-3625 Park City UT Wahsatch Desperados 4th Sat Sanpitch Kid 801-231-2643 Kaysville UT DOWN UNDER MONTHLY MATCHES Castle Gate Posse 4th Sat Cowboy M. Maude 435-637-8209 Price UT Gold Coast Gamblers 1st & 3rd Sat Dagger Jack 61-7-5537-5857 Gold Coast QLD AU Dixie Desperados 5th Sat Nitty Gritty Sandy 435-656-5211 Greenhorn UT Adelaide Pistol & Pungo Posse 1st Sat V. B. Southpaw 757-471-6190 Wakefield VA Shooting Club 1st Sat & 3rd Sun Lobo Malo 61-8-2890606 Korunye SA AU Cavalier Cowboys 1st Sun (Mar-Dec) Kuba Kid 804-270-9054 Hanover County VA Cowboy Action Shooters Virginia City Marshals 1st Tues Virginia Vixen 703-455-4795 Fairfax VA of Australia 3rd Wknd Mister Skye 02-9975-7983 Teralba NSW AU Blue Ridge Regulators 2nd Sun Bad Company 540-886-3374 Lexington VA Mount Rowan Rangers 4th Sat Arizona Sheriff 0408 561 286 Ballart VIC AU K.C.’s Corral 3rd Sat Sam Hades 804-264-3608 Mechanicsville VA Fort Bridger Shooting Mattaponi Sundowners 3rd Sun Flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 West Point VA Club Inc. 4th Sun Duke York 61-3-9551-2902 Drouin VIC AU Pepper Mill Creek Gang 4th Sun Slip Hammer Spiv 540-775-4561 King George VA Wiski Mountain Bend of Trail 4th Sun Trapper Dan 540-890-5162 Roanoke VA Rangers, The As Sched The Caretaker Hare 414383845 Mount Martha VIC AU Stovall Creek Regulators Alt. 1st Sat & Sun Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 Madison Heights VA SSAA Single Action Verdant Mountain Vigilantes 2nd Sun Snake-Eye Alger 802-476-6247 Marshfield VT Shooting-Australia Sun 61-7-4695-2050 Millmerran QLD AU Mica Peak Marshals 1st & 3rd Sat Old Timer Gus 509-325-9253 Mica WA Trail Blazers Gun Club 1st Sun Ernie Southpaw 64-3-755-7654 Mill Town NZ North East Washington Regulators 1st Wknd Armstong Rosie 509-684-2325 Colville WA Bullet Spittin Sons Renton United Cowboy O’ Thunder 2nd Sat Billy Deadwood 64-6-3564720 Palmerston N. NZ Action Shooters 1st Wknd Jess Ducky 425-271-9286 Renton WA Wairarapa Pistol and Smokey Point Desperados 2nd Sun Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 Arlington WA Shooting Club, Inc. 2nd Sun Doc Hayes 06 379 6692 Carterton NZ Colville Guns and Roses 2nd. Sunday Crossfire Scout 509-684-8953 Colville WA Tararua Rangers 3rd Sun J.E.B. Stuart (64) 6 3796436 Carterton NZ Wolverton Mountain Peace Keepers 3rd Sat Hellfire 360-513-9081 Ariel WA Western Renegades 4th Sat Slim Chance Ever 027 249 6270 Wanganui NZ Apple Valley Marshals 3rd Sat Silent Sam 509-884-3875 East Wenatchee WA Ghost Riders-Snoqualmie Valley Rifle Club 3rd Sun Sidewinder Sam 425-836-8053 Snoqualmie WA Black River Regulators 4th Sat Montana Slim 360-754-4328 Littlerock WA SOUTH AFRICA MONTHLY MATCHES Custer Renegades 4th Sun Slingshot Sam 360-410-6869 Custer WA Western Shooters Poulsbo Pistoleros 4th Sun Alzada Slim 360-308-8384 Poulsbo WA of South Africa 3rd Sat Richmond P. Hobson 27-21-797-5054 Cape Town ZA Old West Cowboys & Guns Shooting Society As Sched Bear Britches 800-735-1348 Cle Elum WA Rattlesnake Gulch Rangers Last Sat Ricochet Robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City WA Beazley Gulch Rangers Last Sun An E. Di 509-787-1782 Quincy WA Rock River Regulators 1st Sat Stoney Mike 608-868-5167 Beloit WI SASS MOUNTED MONTHLY MATCHES Western Wisconsin Wild Bunch 2nd Sat Sierra Jack Cassidy 608-792-1494 Holmen WI Ghost Town Riders 1st Sun Steely Eyes Earp 951-737-6596 Norco CA Bristol Plains Pistoleros 2nd Sun Tex Hewitt 847-956-0947 Bristol WI Roy Rogers Rangers 2nd Wknd Wildcat Kate 951-928-4601 Winchester CA Crystal River Gunslingers 2nd Sun Ghost Chaser 715-281-7823 Waupaca WI California Range Riders As Sched Old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 Varies CA Wisconsin Old West Shootist, Inc. 2nd Sun Coyote Valley Regulators TBA Leroy P. Justice 408-842-6694 Gilroy CA & 4th Sat (Apr-Oct) Tracker Jack Daniels 715-643-2011 Boyceville WI Revengers of Montezuma 1st Sat Aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez CO Liberty Prairie Regulators 3rd Sat Dirty Deeds 920-748-4833 Ripon WI Sand Creek Shadow Riders As Sched Wildkat Mike 303-644-5802 Byers CO Blue Hills Bandits 3rd Sun Lone Lady 715-458-4841 Rice Lake WI Florida Outlaws Cowboy Mounted Good Guys Posse 3rd Wknd Longtooth 847-436-4570 Sharon WI Shooting As Sched Texas Silver Star 386-717-7091 DeLeon Springs FL Oconomowoc Cattlemen’s Broken Spoke Mounted Posse As Sched El Paisano 217-964-2433 Mendon IL Association 4th Sat Marvin the Moyle 414-254-5592 Concord WI Midwest Rangers, Inc. As Sched Thunderbird Kid 815-967-7598 Rochelle IL The Bad Guys Posse As Sched Speedy Dan 262-728-6577 Elkhorn WI Thurmont Mounted Rangers 3rd Sun Timber Smoke 410-997-9370 Thurmont MD Dawn Ghost Riders 1st Sat Coffee Bean 304-327-9884 Hinton WV New Hampshire Mounted Shooters As Sched Army Saddler 603-487-3379 New Boston NH Frontier Regulators 2nd Sat Captain Tay Grafton WV Cowboy Legends Mounted The Railtown Rowdys 2nd Sun Miss Print 304-589-6162 Bluefield WV Shooting Ass. As Sched Royal Cowboy 973-296-6283 Pompton Plains NJ Buffalo Range Riders Mounted 1st Sat Kanawha Valley Regulators 3rd Wknd Pike Marshall 304-925-9342 Eleanor WV (Before 1st Sun) Nuevo Mike 505-832-4059 Founders Ranch NM Cowboy Action Shooting Rio Grande Rustlers 2nd Sat Buckskin Doc 505-440-0257 Belen NM Sports, Inc. 4th Sun (Feb-Nov) Cody Canagher 304-258-1419 Largent WV Las Vegas Mounted Shooting Cheyenne Regulators, Inc. 1st Sat Overland Kid 307-635-9940 Cheyenne WY Associations Sunday Concha Wade 702-498-1134 Las Vegas NV Colter’s Hell Justice Committee Oklahoma Gunslingers As Sched Ima Sandy Storm 918-244-8060 Claremore OK WSAS 1st Sat Lucky B. Thorington 307-202-1113 Varies WY Lone Pine Rangers 3rd Sat Hawkeye Scout 541-447-7012 Prineville OR Bessemer Vigilance Committee 1st Sun Smokewagon Bill 307-472-1926 Casper WY High Lonesome Drifters 2nd Sat Kari Lynn 307-587-2946 Cody WY Sybille Creek Shooters 2nd Sat Wyoming Roy 307-322-3515 Wheatland WY Southfork Vigilance Committee WSAS 2nd sun Wennoff Halfcock 307-332-5035 Lander WY Donkey Creek Shootists 3rd Sat Poker Jim 307-660-0221 Gillette WY To make any changes or affiliate your store, please contact Powder River Justice Committee WSAS 3rd Sun Doc Fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo WY Prairie Mary (505) 286-4566. Page 104 Cowboy Chronicle May 2007 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Match Name Sched. Contact Phone City State

Prince of the Pistoleers May 1, ‘07 Shawnee Shamus 913-236-8812 Lenexa KS Squinty Eye Western Shoot Aug 17-19, ‘07 Wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Virginia MN SASS California State Championship SASS New Hampshire State Black Shootout at 5 Dog Creek May 3-6, ‘07 Almost Dangerous 760-376-4493 Bakersfield CA Powder Shootout SASS Texas State Championship The Great Buffalo Hunt Aug 18-19, ‘07 Capt. Morgan Rum 603-772-5041 Candia NH Jail Break May 3-6, ‘07 Texas Alline 903-545-2252 Oakwood TX SASS Maryland State Blackpowder Shootout Ambush at Ricochet Junction May 4-6, ‘07 Armstong Rosie 509-684-2325 Colville WA The Free State Blackpowder Shootout Aug 19, ‘07 Cash Caldwell 301-898-3149 Thurmont MD Mo-Kan Border Skirmish May 4-6, ‘07 Iza Littleoff 816-524-1462 Higginsville MO SASS Iowa State Championship SASS Kentucky State Championship Ambush on the Prairie Aug 2-4, ‘07 Kingdom Kid 319-351-7572 Evansdale IA Hooten Holler Round-Up May 4-6, ‘07 No Purse Nez 606-633-7688 McKee KY North Rim Regulators Round-Up Aug 24-25, ‘07 Autum Rose 435-644-5053 Kanab UT Rough Riders Ride Again May 5-6, ‘07 Hardbark Harry 404-373-8088 Dawsonville GA 3 Day Shoot Aug 24-26, ‘07 Loco Poco Lobo 585-467-4429 Shortsville NY SASS NORTHWEST TERRITORIAL SASS Wisconsin State BLACKPOWDER SHOOTOUT May 5-6, ‘07 The Elder Katie 253-946-1438 Renton WA Championship Fire In The Hills Aug 24-26, ‘07 Tracker Jack Daniels 715-643-2011 Boyceville WI Spring Avalanche Stampede May 8-19, ‘07 Buckskin John 907-789-7498 Juneau AK Last Blast of Summer Aug 25, ‘07 Yankee 781-383-9799 Scituate MA Utah Territorial Shootout May 12, ‘07 Bufflo Juan 435-528-7432 Mayfield UT Monument Springs Bushwhacker Battle of Rogue River May 12-13, ‘07 Molly B’ Dam 541-479-2928 Grants Pass OR Annual Fandago Aug 25-26, ‘07 William Emett 505-392-0607 Hobbs NM The Siege at San Juan May 17-20, ‘07 San Juan 970-249-4227 Montrose CO Shootout At Lithia Springs Aug 25-26, ‘07 Cornelius Gilliam 541-734-8509 Ashland OR Adobe Walls May 18-20, ‘07 J.R. Harvey 408-245-5499 Gonzales CA Shootout at Three Rivers Aug 25-27, ‘07 O Bar Freddie 505-325-2167 Farmington NM SASS Illinois State Championship MN BorderTown Shootout Aug 31-Sep 2, ‘07 BB Gunner 218-779-8555 East Grand Forks MN The Macoupin County Spring Round-up May 18-20, ‘07 Railroad Bill 314-994-0367 Pheasant Valley IL Shoot’n in the Shade Aug 31-Sep 2, ‘07 Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 Hot Springs AR SASS Illinois State Championship True Grit Aug 31-Sep 2, ‘07 Dapper Dan Porter 309-734-2324 Little York IL The Macoupin County Spring Round-Up May 18-20, ‘07 Railroad Bill 314-994-0367 Bunker Hill IL Lead Daze at Linkville Aug 31-Sep 3, ‘07 Rambling Dave 541-273-1055 Klamath Falls OR Shooting Shindig May 18-20, ‘07 Neches Jack 505-628-0028 Carlsbad NM SASS Michigan State Championship Shooutout at Leadville May 18-20, ‘07 Oracle Jones 410-239-6795 Jefferson PA Wolverine Ranger Range War Aug 31-Sep 3, ‘07 Deuce Stevens 616-890-6657 Port Huron MI Charlie Bull Memorial May 20, ‘07 The Cocolallan 208-683-9708 Spirit Lake ID SASS Maine State Blackpowder Shootout High Sierra Shootout May 24-27, ‘07 Black Jack Traven 530-677-0368 Railroad Flats CA Smoke on the Mountain Sep 1-2, ‘07 Dangerous Dalton 207-667-3586 Blue Hill ME SASS Mississippi State Championship Smokin’ SASS Nebraska State Championship Guns at Rabbit Ridge May 24-27, ‘07 Jered Maddox 901-490-0183 Byhalia MS 10th Annual Shootout at Flatwater Sep 1-3, ‘07 Wes Beckett 308-226-2651 Grand Island NE SASS SOUTHEAST REGIONAL Wild Bunch Match Sep 2, ‘07 Snake River Cowboy 631-477-1090 Westhampton Beach NY The Shootout at Mule Camp May 24-27, ‘07 San Quinton 706-540-0400 Covington GA SASS Colorado State Championship SASS SOUTHEAST TERRITORIAL BLACKPOWDER SHOOUTOUT Last Ride of Kid Curry Sep 6-9, ‘07 Miles Coffee 970-625-0657 Rifle CO The Shootout at Mule Camp May 24-27, ‘07 San Quinton 706-540-0400 Covington GA John Wayne Shoot-out Sep 7-9, ‘07 Solvang Shootist 805-688-3969 San Luis Obispo CA Ambush at Mill Creek May 25-27, ‘07 Captain Jake 714-536-2635 Norco CA Shootout at Hoss Creek Ranch Sep 7-9, ‘07 Kenny Vaquero 419-874-6929 Gibsonbong OH SASS Alaska State Blackpowder Shootout Standoff at Smokey Point Sep 7-9, ‘07 Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 Arlington WA Smoke in the Greatland May 25-27, ‘07 David Cook 907-243-0781 Anchorage AK Dakota Territory Gold Rush Sep 8-9, ‘07 Hawkbill Smith 605-342-8946 Pringle SD SASS Pennsylvania State Championship The Final Showdown Sep 8-9, ‘07 Rowdy K 419-529-0887 Mt. Vernon OH North Mountain Shoot Out VIII May 25-27, ‘07 Black Hills Barb 570-538-9163 Muncy Valley PA Shootout ‘07 Sep 9, ‘07 Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 Howard Lake MN St. Jude Children’s Hospital SASS Minnesota State Championship Charity Shoot May 26, ‘07 T.A. Spurs 309-798-2635 Monmouth IL Gunsmoke ‘07 Sep 13-16, ‘07 Kaycee McCaylum 507-455-1101 Morristown MN End of Road May 26-27, ‘07 Missy Mable 208-731-6387 Jerome ID SASS FOUR CORNERS TERRITORIAL BLACKPOWDER SHOOTOUT Shootout at Three Fingers Saloon May 26-27, ‘07 Dirty Sally 805-438-4817 Santa Margarita CA Smoke Iron 2007 Sep 14-15, ‘07 Penny Wrangler 435-680-0909 Cedar City UT Where the Old West Stayed Young May 26-27, ‘07 Sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 Craig CO Shootout at the Happy Jack Mine Sep 14-15, ‘07 Happy Jack 435-979-4665 Lake Powell UT Open Range May 26-28, ‘07 Diamond Pak 520-743-0179 Tombstone AZ Six Gun Justice Sep 14-15, ‘07 Teton County Jr. 208-709-1708 Rexburg ID St. Jude Children’s Hospital A Gunfight in Dixie Sep 14-16, ‘07 Texas Bill 901-465-1730 Arlington TN Charity Shoot May 27, ‘07 T. A. Spurs 309-798-2635 Milan IL Gateway To The West Sep 14-16, ‘07 Bounty Seeker 636-464-6569 St. Louis MO Battle of Plum Creek May 31-Jun 3, ‘07 Delta Raider 512-376-2602 Lockhart TX Old Magdalena Shoot Out Sep 14-16, ‘07 Slippery Steve 505-835-8664 Magdalena NM Western States Cowboy Action Purgatory Rush Sep 14-16, ‘07 Dry Gulch Geezer 814-827-2120 Titusville PA Shooting Championship May 31-Jun 3, ‘07 Quick Cal 775-575-6700 Fernley NV SASS New York State Championship Showdown Jun 1, ‘07 Rob Banks 714-206-6893 Lytle Creek CA Heluva Rukus Sep 14-16, ‘07 Annabelle Bransford 518-877-7834 Ballston Spa NY SASS Idaho State Black Powder Shootout SASS SOUTHWEST TERRITORIAL BLACKPOWDER SHOOTOUT Beaver Dick BlackPowder Blowout Jun 1-2, ‘07 Idaho Packer 208-589-5941 Rexburg ID Powder Blast Sep 14-16, ‘07 Texas Alline 903-545-2252 Oakwood TX Gundown on the Little Big Horn Jun 1-3, ‘07 Prairie Annie 800-371-7963 Garryowen MT Wolverton Mtn. Peace Keepers Sep 15, ‘07 Hellfire 360-513-9081 Ariel WA Gunfight at Chimney Rocks Jun 1-3, ‘07 Hattie Hubbs 814-696-5669 Hollidaysburg PA SASS NORTHWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SASS Arkansas State Championship Rattlesnake Gulch Roundup Sep 20-23, ‘07 Ricochet Robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City WA Pursuit By Rooster Cogburn’s Posse Jun 1-3, ‘07 Sister Sundance 479-968-7129 Belleville AR SASS Oklahoma State Championship SASS MA, CT, and RI State Championship Ruckus in the Nation Sep 20-23, ‘07 Montana Dan 918-313-0249 Coweta OK Shootout at Sawyer Flats Jun 1-3, ‘07 Barrister Bill 978-667-2219 Harvard MA Fall Roundup Sep 21-23, ‘07 Trader Dave 309-788-2448 Milan IL Rifleman’s Holliday Jun 2, ‘07 Maddog Miglorisi 928-536-6934 Taylor AZ SASS Indiana State Championship SASS HIGH PLAINS REGIONAL Hoosier Ambush Sep 21-23, ‘07 Doc Molar 765-948-3844 Jonesboro IN Hell on Wheels Jul 5-8, ‘07 Deputy Cuny 307-634-2449 Cheyenne WY SASS West Virginia State Championship Blue Mountain Shootout Jul 6-8, ‘07 Lester Moore 610-821-8215 Topton PA Appalachian Showdown Sep 21-23, ‘07 Cody Canagher 304-258-1419 Largent WV SASS Alaska Territorial Championship Smokey Hayes Invitational Sep 21-23, ‘07 Rancid Roy 505-898-4894 Albuquerque NM Shootout Under The Midnight Sun Jul 6-8, ‘07 David Cook 907-243-0181 Anchorage AK T-Town Shootout Sep 21-23, ‘07 Newton 785-765-3915 Topeka KS SASS New Hampshire & Vermont State Championship Rapmpage Sep 22, ‘07 Sanpitch Kid 801-231-2643 Kaysville UT Fracas at Pemi Gulch Jul 6-8, ‘07 Capt. Side Burns 603-539-4584 Holderness NH Verde Valley Ranch Wars Sep 22-24, ‘07 Johnny Meadows 928-567-9227 Camp Verde AZ Southwest Border Wars Jul 6-8, ‘07 Chico Cheech 505-388-2531 Silver City NM SASS Massachusetts State Black Powder Shootout Independence Day Shoot Jul 7, ‘07 Diamond Red 406-685-3618 Ennis MT Shootout at Drake Mountain Sep 23-24, ‘07 Patsy Shenandoah 508-517-7044 Harvard MA SASS Montana State Championship Jul 7-8, ‘07 Montana Prairie Dog 406-452-0136 Simms MT High Plains Throw Down Sep 28-30, ‘07 J. P. Trouble 928-445-2468 Prescott AZ SASS Wyoming State Championship Legends of The West Sep 28-30, ‘07 Bojack 760-956-5044 Devore CA Cody’s Wild West Shootout Jun 7-10, ‘07 Joe Cross 307-587-2946 Cody WY Pistols and Petticoats Sep 28-30, ‘07 Louisiana Lady 318-397-2035 Downsville LA Utah Summer Games Jun 7-9, ‘07 Penny Wrangler 435-680-0909 Cedar City UT Wild West Extravaganza Shootout Sep 29, ‘07 Penny Pepperbox 775-727-4600 Pahrump NV Ambush at Hatcreek Jun 8-10, ‘07 David Boddy 530-275-3158 Burney CA The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Sep 29-30, ‘07 Manatee 317-640-0172 Paradise Pass IN The Plainfield Incident Jun 14-17, ‘07 Diamond Dick 916-483-9198 Davis CA 10th Annual Shootout At Wildwood Sep 22-23, ‘07 VOODOOMAN 219-872-2721 Michigan City IN Oregon Trail Shootout Jun 15-17, ‘07 Hank Vaughan 541-910-4244 La Grande OR SASS Nevada State Championship Revenge of Montezuma Jun 15-17, ‘07 Piedra Kidd 970-565-9228 Cortez CO Eldorado Oct 4-7, ‘07 Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City NV Thunder In The Valley Jun 15-17, ‘07 Johnny Shiloh 440-984-4551 Amherst OH SASS NORTHEAST REGIONAL SASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Mason Dixon Stampede Oct 4-7, ‘07 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Thurmont MD END of TRAIL Jun 15-24, ‘07 SASS Office 714-694-1800 Founders Ranch NM High Noon at Tusco Oct 5-7, ‘07 Split Rail 330-364-6185 Midvale OH SASS Maryland State Championship SASS Alabama State Championship Thunder Valley Days Jun 21-23, ‘07 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Damascus MD Ambush At Cavern Cove Oct 5-7, ‘07 Drake Robey 256-233-6350 Cavern Cove AL Yellowstone Valley Buffalo Stampede Jun 22-23, ‘07 Backstrap Bill 406-245-2854 Billings MT Guns In The Grove Oct 6, ‘07 Ross Rutherford 828-287-4519 Rutherfordton NC Ambush at Durham Ferry Jun 22-24, ‘07 Cherokee Knight 209-477-8883 Manteca CA Comanche Moon Shootout Oct 6-7, ‘07 Hoodoo Brown 432-682-1422 Midland TX State Games of North Carolina Jun 23, ‘07 J. M. Brown 919-266-3751 Creedmore NC Shootout on the Cimarron Oct 6-7, ‘07 Querida Kate 405-372-0208 Stillwater OK Paradise Pass Ambush Jun 2-3, ‘07 Midnite Desperado 574-893-7214 Warsaw IN Underwear Day Oct 6-7, ‘07 Rimrock Goldvein 509-301-2418 Milton Freewater OR Great Lakes Match #10 Jun 23-24, ‘07 Wall-Man 248-628-7424 Attica MI Huntsman World Senior Games Oct 9-13, ‘07 William Waddy 435-652-7887 St. George UT Mica Peak Marshals Jun 23-24, ‘07 Old Timer Gus 509-325-9253 Mica WA SASS SOUTHWEST REGIONAL Shoot with No Name Jun 23-24, ‘07 Badlands Buzz 607-898-3581 Greene NY Showdown at Ormsby’s Ranch Oct 10-14, ‘07 Eli Hawk 817-441-8356 Cleburne TX SASS Wisconsin State Blackpowder Shootout Massacre at Millbrook Oct 11-13, ‘07 Glacier Griz 785-421-3329 Hill City KS Smoke in the Hills Jun 24, ‘07 Tracker Jack Daniels 715-643-2011 Boyceville WI SASS Tennessee State Championship SASS Michigan State Black Powder Shootout Regulator’s Reckoning Oct 11-13, ‘07 Sassy Lora 615-896-8450 Wartrace TN Smoke on the Range Jun 30-Jul 1, ‘07 Two Rig A Tony 616-891-6917 Grand Rapids MI Dry Gulch at Arroyo Cantua Oct 11-14, ‘07 Diamond Dick 916-483-9198 Sloughouse CA SASS Pennsylvania State Black Powder Shootout SASS WESTERN REGIONAL Smoke N Fire at Indian Creek Jul 20, ‘07 Mattie Hays 724-593-6602 Donegal PA Last Stand at Chimney Rock Oct 11-14, ‘07 Five Jacks 760-949-3198 Lucerne Valley CA Redemtion at Plummer Butte Jul 20-22, ‘07 Rita Would 509-238-6290 Plummer ID SASS Ohio State Championship SASS North Dakota State Championship Shootout at Hard Times Oct 12-14, ‘07 Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 Piqua OH Peace in the Valley Jul 20-22, ‘07 Wild River Rose 701-588-4331 Kindred ND SASS Virginia State Championship Wild West Days Jul 20-22, ‘07 Into Buffalo 360-303-5387 Custer WA Star City Shootout Oct 12-14, ‘07 Beer Slinger 540-776-0057 Roanoke VA Ambush at Indian Creek Jul 21-22, ‘07 Durango Hickok 724-228-8999 Donegal PA The Shootout on The Santa Fe River Oct 13, ‘07 Delta Glen 352-317-2357 Fort White FL SASS NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL Border Wars ‘07 Oct 19-21, ‘07 Buffalo Phil 913-898-4911 Parker KS The Great Nor’easter Jul 25-29, ‘07 Capt. Morgan Rum 603-772-5041 Pelhan NH SASS New Jersey State Championship Guns Of The Timberlands Jul 26-28, ‘07 Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 Eureka/Arcata CA Purgatory In The Pines Oct 19-21, ‘07 Flat Iron Frank 609-693-6120 Jackson NJ SASS HIGH PLAINS TERRITORIAL BLACK POWDER SHOOTOUT The Whoopin’ Oct 20, ‘07 Texas Heat 512-219-8280 Driftwood TX Rocky Mountain Regional Raid Jul 26-29, ‘07 Sweet Water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers CO Diamond Four Roundup Oct 20-21, ‘07 Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 Odessa NY Bessemer Jail Break Jul 27-29, ‘07 Smokewagon Bill 307-472-1926 Casper WY The Dalton Gangs October Shootout Oct 20-21, ‘07 Little Dalton 603-444-6876 Dalton NC Black Butte Blowout Aug 3-4, ‘07 Idaho Shady Layne 208-524-1597 Idaho Falls ID Hanging Tree Shootout Oct 21, ‘07 X S Chance 573-765-5483 St. Robert MO Ambush at Hickory Ridge Aug 3-5, ‘07 Mac Traven 570-723-8885 Wellsboro PA SASS Arizona State Championship Sagebrush Rebellion Aug 3-5, ‘07 Earl 530-253-3868 Susanville CA Bordertown Oct 25-28, ‘07 Billy B. Jiggered 520-591-3180 Tucson AZ SASS Alaska State Championship SASS Missouri State Championship The Justin Pierce Memorial Shoot Aug 3-5, ‘07 Montana Hammer 907-451-4540 Chatanika AK The 2007 Show-Me Shootout Oct 25-28, ‘07 Smokie 417-759-9114 Branson MO SASS Washington State The Gunfight Behind The Jersey Lilly Oct 25-28, ‘07 Captain Jake 714-536-2635 Norco CA Championship Westmatch XVI Aug 3-5, ‘07 The Elder Katie 253-946-1438 Renton WA Guns of Autum Oct 26-27, ‘07 Southern Breeze 770-889-2434 Gainesville GA Shaketails Annual Aug 3-5, ‘07 Yaro 303-646-3777 Ramah CO Comin’ At ‘Cha Oct 26-28, ‘07 T-Bone Dooley 903-628-5512 English TX SASS Utah State Blackpowder Shootout Aug 4, ‘07 Jubal O. Sackett 801-944-3444 Park City UT SASS Kentucky & Tennessee State Black Powder Shootout SASS Idaho State Championship Smokeout In the Hills Oct 26-28, ‘07 Hezekiah Hawke 859-250-7766 Winfield TN Reckoning at Black Creek Aug 8-12, ‘07 John Bear 208-288-4251 Kuna ID Speidie Shoot Oct 27-29, ‘07 Badlands Buzz 607-898-3581 Greene NY SASS Utah State Championship SASS North Carolina State Championship Utah War Aug 9-11, ‘07 Jubal O. Sackett 801-944-3444 Park City UT The Uprising at Swering Creek Nov 1-4, ‘07 J. M. Brown 919-266-3751 Salisbury NC SASS MIDWEST REGIONAL SASS Kansas State Championship Guns of August Aug 9-12, ‘07 Deadwood Stan 513-894-3500 Middletown OH Sunflower State Shoot Nov 2-4, ‘07 Shylock 785-823-1333 Chapman KS SASS FOUR CORNERS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Shootout at Big River Swamp Nov 3, ‘07 Nimrod Long 850-592-5665 Grand Ridge FL Outlaw Trail Aug 16-19, ‘07 SASS Office 714-694-1800 Founders Ranch NM Vengeance Trail Nov 3, ‘07 Shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville FL 3rd Annual Last Stand at Flint Hill Aug 17-19, ‘07 Choupique 573-857-3067 Salem AR Nevada Senior Olympics Nov 4, ‘07 Penny Pepperbox 775-772-4600 Pahrump NV SASS Oregon State Championship Rusty Colts Guns of Autumn Nov 4, ‘07 Snake River Cowboy 631-477-1090 Westhampton Beach NY Shootout at Saddle Butte Aug 17-19, ‘07 Mid Valley Drifter 541-259-2774 Albany OR Arizona Territorial Round-Up Nov 8-11, ‘07 Sunshine Kay 602-973-3434 Phoenix AZ Shootout at Pawnee Station Aug 17-19, ‘07 Red River Wrangler 970-225-0545 Wellington CO Defend Old Fort Parker Charity Match Nov 8-11, ‘07 Slowaz Molasses 254-412-0904 Groesbeck TX (Continued on page 105) (Continued from page 104) May 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 105 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Name Sched. 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SASS South Carolina State Championship Shootout at Givhans Ferry Nov 8-11, ‘07 Edisto Ike 843-869-2429 Ridgeville SC EUROPE ANNUAL MATCHES SASS Louisiana State Championship The Pioneer Shootout Jun 2-3, ‘07 Charles Quantrill 47-932-59-669 Loten NO Hanging at Coyote Creek Nov 9-11, ‘07 Soiled Dove 985-796-9698 Amite LA The Mini Blaster Jun 24, ‘07 Samuel B. Carpenter 479-001-1230 Lillestrom NO Montrose Marshals Turkey Shoot Nov 11, ‘07 Big Hat 970-249-7701 Montrose CO The Norsemen Trail Aug 8-12, ‘07 Nashville Frank [email protected] Loten NO Bill & Dorothy Hahn Memorial Benfit Match Nov 16-18, ‘07 Bounty Hunter 619-224-8480 Pala CA 4th CAS European Championship Cowford Stampede Nov 16-18, ‘07 Cowford Kid 904-219-3795 Jacksonville FL Days of Truth 2007 Aug 19-26, ‘07 Arizona Tom 38552528173 Gussago - Brescia IT The Great Northfield Raid Nov 16-18, ‘07 Desperado 818-341-7255 Sylmar CA End of Trail 2007 Sep 15-16, ‘07 Alchimista 39-3342068337 Gualdo Tadino, Perugia IT Shootout at Purgatory Flats Nov 22-24, ‘07 Early Dawn 775-209-4708 Amargosa NV Annual Championship of Tombstone Territory “Ace La Rue” CAS - Germany Oct 6-7, ‘07 Marshal Heck +49 345-1200581 Edderitz DE Championship Nov 22-25, ‘07 Diamond Pak 520-743-0179 Tombstone AZ 25th Annual Arizona Territorial Championship Shootout in the Saguaros Nov 30-Dec 2, ‘07 Barbwire 480-488-3064 Phoenix AZ Cowboy Christmas Shoot Dec 1, ‘07 Dunn Gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia SC DOWN UNDER ANNUAL MATCHES Top Gun Dec 8, ‘07 Amaduelist 561-694-2079 Indiantown FL 10th Annual Winter Roundup May 5-6, ‘07 Lobo Malo 61-8-2890606 Adelaide SA AU Cowboy Christmas Shoot Dec 14-16, ‘07 Texas Slim 325-668-4884 Abilene TX SASA - Southeast Heartland Holiday Shoot Dec 28-29, ‘07 William Waddy 435-652-7887 St. George UT Territorial Jul 14-15, ‘07 Dagger Jack 61-7-5537-5857 Gold Coast AU Yuma Territorial Prison Breakout Jan 18-20, ‘08 ClueLass 928-726-7727 Yuma AZ SASS AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP The Western Cup Jan 25-27, ‘08 Daisy Mayhem 702-896-1174 Indian Springs NV 2007 Sep 25-30, ‘07 Virgil Earp 61-7-4695-2050 Millmerran QL AU Raid on Andersonville Mar 7-9, ‘08 Montana Brown 706-423-9363 Anderson SC Gunfight at the Ok Corral Oct 27-28, ‘07 Duke York 61-3-9551-2902 Drouin VI AU Australian International Black Powder Championship Nov 3-4, ‘07 Mister Skye 02-9975-7983 Teralba NS AU CANADIAN ANNUAL MATCHES Buckskin Bullets & Beans Mar 8-9, ‘08 Billy Deadwood 64-6-3564720 Palmerston N. NZ Shoot Out At The Ridge May 18-20, ‘07 Forty One Colt Bob 604-929-0178 Mission BC CANADA NSMLA Spring Rendezvous May 19-21, ‘07 Wounded Belly 902-890-2310 Truro NS CANADA Centre de tir des Loisirs de Granby May 20, ‘07 Richelieu Mike 450-658-8130 Granby QC CANADA SASS MOUNTED ANNUAL MATCHES Dry Gulch Jun 16, ‘07 Hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon ON CANADA Sunshine State Shootout May 12, ‘07 Texas Silver Star 386-717-7091 DeLeon Springs FL Centre de tir des Loisirs de Granby Jul 15, ‘07 Richelieu Mike 450-358-8130 Granby QC CANADA Revenge of Montezuma 2007 Jun 15-17, ‘07 Aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez CO Bar-E Ranch Second Annual Jul 21, ‘07 Canadian Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie ON CANADA SASS World Championship Canadian Championship of CAS Aug 2-5, ‘07 Kelsey Kid 780-375-2333 Kelsey AL CANADA End Of Trail Jun 15-24, 07 SASS Office 714-694-1800 Founders Ranch NM Rocky Mountain Thunder Aug 11-12, ‘07 Luke A Leathersmith 403-845-4347 Rocky Mtn House AL CANADA SASS HIGH PLAINS REGIONAL MOUNTED CHAMPIONSHIP Buffalo Shoot Aug 25, ‘07 Hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon ON CANADA Rocky Mountain Regional Raid Jul 26-29, ‘07 Wildkat Mike 303-644-5802 Byers CO SASS CANADIAN REGIONAL SASS Four Corners Regional Championship CHAMPIONSHIP Aug 31-Sep 2, ‘07 Rusty Wood 604-302-6176 Mission BC CANADA Outlaw Trail Aug 16-19 SASS Office 714-694-1800 Founders Ranch NM The Badlands of H. A. H. A. Sep 15, ‘07 Arty Ways 905-627-4123 Ancaster ON CANADA Shootout at Ingall’s Park Sep 1-2, ‘07 Wildcat Kate 951-928-4601 Norco CA Centre de tir des Loisirs de Granby Sep 23, ‘07 Richelieu Mike 450-658-8130 Granby QC CANADA SASS Northwest Regional Championship Rattlesnake Gulch Roundup Sept 20-23, 07 Ricochet Robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City WA SASS NORTHEAST MOUNTED SHOOTING REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Mason Dixon Stampede Oct 6, ‘07 Timber Smoke 410-997-9370 Thurmont MD To make any changes or affiliate your store, please contact SASS WESTERN REGIONAL Last Stand at Chimmy Rock Oct 11-14, 07 Five Jacks 760-949-3198 Lucerne Valley CA Prairie Mary (505) 286-4566. SASS Florida State Mounted Championship Last Stand in the Wetlands Nov 17-18, ‘07 Texas Silver Star 386-717-7091 DeLeon Springs FL

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