S S !! A i C For Updates, Information and GREAT Offers on the fly-Text SASS to 772937! g L CCCooowwwCCbbbooooywywy C bCbCoohhhyyrrr o oCoCnSnnhhiiiiicircrcccllolloleleeeneniiiccnlllee I NNNooovvveeemmmbbbeeerrr 222000000111 Cowboy ChS ronicle PPPaaaCgggeee 111 NNSSoeeopvpvettetememmmbbbbeeererr r 2 2 220000001111 00 -uPPPPaaaagggKgeeee 1 111 ( E p H S N E e T R e E Cowboy Chronicle D o Cowboy Chronicle p !! October 2010 Paage 1o d g f a e y ~ T ! 2 R 3 A The Cowboy Chronicle ) I L The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® Vol. 28 No. 4 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. April 2015 GHIVANS F ER RY Southeast Regional i Honors Vets DrawsB yS Mhato Boatstearsosn ,f SrAoSSm #1611516 States idgeville, South Carolina. The November sun shown bright and warm on gunslingers and Rtheir sidekicks at the SASS 2014 Southeast Re - gional Championship, otherwise known as “The Shootout at Givhans Ferry.” This, the fourth annual gathering at expansive Pal - metto Gun Club, not far from historic Charleston, SC, was themed “Veterans of the Wild West,” in honor of those who served us then and now, and it attracted well over 200 shooters from 15 states. Each stage re - called a famous or infamous veteran from the Old West; the shooter would signal ready by reciting a line attributed to that veteran. Our hosts, The Geechee Gunfighters, offered up ten tree-lined, grass-bermed pistol bays, most of them Bigger is always better, as evidenced by the 2014 fronted by props—a Hollywood cowtown-style bank, Southeast Regional match at Ghivans Ferry—and by High Pockets Bill (SASS #93659), shown here with two other standard size competitors. SASS C owboy Chronicle 32 saloon, jail, and even a ferry boat—to lend atmos - DISPATCHES FROM In This Issue CAMP BAYLOR phere and nostalgia to the stages of the four-day by Capt. George Baylor event. Meanwhile, if you needed cowboy gear or C good vittles, they could be found here. A steady 8 h C LOVES ERY G -A V 53 r o MPORTANT CCESSORY stream of ladies and gents filled the tents and ta - I A SPOTTER TRAINING o w by Texas Flower by Palaver Pete n bles of delighted merchants ranging from Jackson’s b i o Western Store and Clark’s Bullets to gun engraver c y 16 64 Yves Halliburton, aka Have-a-Bourbon (SASS RANGE WAR 2014 THE STRAIGHT SHOT l by R. J. Law by Jesse Wolf Hardin e #50227). And next to them, vendors of hot food and ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CLICK any section ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ (CLICK HERE to continue on page 14 ) Cowboy Chronicle Page 2 April 2015 The Cowboy Chronicle CONTENTS CLICK on any sections e 5 FROM THE EDITOR Chronicle Reading the digital (Addendum) . Editorial Staff 6 NEWS Skinny Special Matches Highlight Finale Of The Civil War Sesquicentennial . Editor-in-Chief 7 LETTERS Misty Moonshine Comments From SASS Members . Managing Editor 8-13 COSTUMING CORNER Gloves (A Very Important Accessory) . Tex and Cat Ballou 16-22 ON THE RANGE Editors Emeritus Range War 2014 . Adobe Illustrator 23 SAS S- END OF TRAIL 2015 Layout & Design (( SIGN-U P TODA Y!! ! )) Mac Daddy 24-31 CLUB REPORTS Graphic Design Shootin’ Our Way Across America . Getting Blown Away . Prairie Mary 32-43 GUNS & GEAR Advertising Manager Dispatches From Camp Baylor . Uberti Magazine Plug . (505) 843-1320 • Cell: (505) 249-3573 [email protected] 44 REVIEWS BOOKS TM Cowboy Action Shooting Magazines (Where Did They Go?) . Staff Writers 45 HISTORY Capgun Kid Little Known Famous People . Capt. George Baylor Chilkoot 46-49 PROFILES Col. Richard Dodge 2014 Scholarship Recipient . Shooting For The Stars . Jesse Wolf Hardin 50-52 TRAIL MARKER Joe Fasthorse Always To Be Remembered . 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VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle April 2015 Page 3 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 4 April 2015 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle April 2015 Page 5 i SKINNY’S SOAPBOX Chronicile Reading the digital Addendum everal people have brought to my attention that Graphic Novels (comic Sfor them, when accessing a link in the PDF ver - books) are routinely in - Skinny sion, the link replaces the Chronicle window rather cluded on bestseller lists, SASS #7361 than popping up in a separate window. I have tried and are often chosen for movie adaptations. to replicate this experience on my own computer, I’ve also heard the sentiment that readers would but I always get a separate window, as I’m sup - rather see the space occupied by some other type of posed to. After some investigation, I believe I have feature. To them, I’ll point out that we are now a vir - localized the problem to Windows users who open tual publication with no restrictions on page count, the PDF in their browser through an Active X add so you’re actually getting the comic book pages in on. I’m not sure there is a work around for this, so addition to—not instead of—something else. If, for if you’re having this problem and it bothers you, my example, the 10 pages of comic book story in this only suggestion at this time is to open the PDF in issue were not included, you would not get 10 pages a stand-alone Adobe Acrobat Reader application, of something else. You’d just get 10 fewer pages. not through your browser. Having said all that, this will be the final edition I believe this will be the last of my “digital Chronicle ” of the Chronicle to include comic book pages—for tutorials for now, unless readers make me aware of now. This is based on the theory that if a few people any other issues. If there are any, please feel free to have expressed displeasure, there may in fact be direct questions or comments my way at many more who are just suffering quietly. If you [email protected] . would like to see them return (or not), please let me know at [email protected] . Comic book pages—yea or nay? This edition of the Chronicle contains a comic Safety and SASS book story featuring “Arizona Raines,” from the Finally, I’d like to call your attention to the letter pages of Crack Western #84, published in May 1953. featured in this issue, dealing with range safety not This is another comic book title that began life as only for match participants, but also for spectators a super hero anthology in the 1940s (as Crack (“Will Common Sense Ever Prevail?”). Sundown Comics ), but switched over to a Western theme in Jones, SASS #5403, makes a very good case for the the 1950s with the growing popularity of the genre. necessity to include instructions for appropriate be - Since I introduced comic book pages a few issues havior to spectators as part of a club’s safety brief - back, the vast majority of feedback I’ve received ing. Give his letter a read. from those I’ve spoken to at various events (includ - Also in this issue, we’re starting a new series of ing the SASS Convention and Winter Range), has short articles on match and range operations and been positive.