eryt ng Ev hing ati Cow br b le o e y C A Jubilee Cowboy Way P re reser Cultu ving Cowboy VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3—WINTER/SPRING 2020 Table of Contents What’s Happening @ the 2020 Cowboy Way Jubilee .1–3 Editor’s Page: FAQs and Sheep! .................4–5 CW Jubilee Travel Information: . .6 ATribune Triannual Publication, Oleeta Jean, LLC, Publisher Hotels, Airlines, & Driving Pre-Event Tour: Discover San Angelo ............6–9 Celebrating Everything Cowboy—New & Old! 2020 Cowboy Way Jubilee Line Up ............10–11 Be A Cowboy Workshops: ....................12–15 Harmonica & Yodeling .......................13 Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner: Sheep & .........16 Costume Contests .......................... 17 What’s Happening @ the Concho Cowboy Company, Re-Enactors ............18 Cowboy Ways Nowadays Facebook Group ..........18 Fort Concho & the Cowboy Way ..................19 2020 Cowboy Way Jubilee by Robert Bluthardt, Site Manager, Ft. Concho Bang! with Oren Truitt .........................20 Performers’ Spotlight: Gary S. Pratt .......... 20–21 w/Caleb Martin, Martin & Pratt Duo “Home on the Range,” w/David Wendel Guion .......22 Change it Happens. by T.C. Miller ................23 Western Art Review: Ruiz Studio & Gallery .... 24–25 Bent Towards Prose: featuring Cowboy Poet ... 26–27 Ron Secoy, Central City, OK Fort Concho & the Western Frontier .......... 28–29 by Robert Bluthardt, Site Manager, Ft. Concho Battle of Honey Springs, by Terry Anderson ... 30–31 REEL 2 Real Cowboys: Buck Jones, Movie Cowboy. .32 REEL 2 Real Cowgirls: ........................33 Cathy/Cathey Williams, Lady Buffalo Soldier Poverty Row Studios—The Directors: J.P. McGowan by Mike “Tadpole” Logan .....................34 Book Review: “River by Starlight,” ...............35 by Ellen Notbohm with Reviewer, Daya Bihm Charlie LeSueur—In Memoriam .............. 36–37 Cannon on the Parade Grounds, Christmas at the Fort celebration, December 2019 Featured Event: ..............................39 Regional Cavalry Competition @ Fort Concho Upcoming Events .............................39 THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO DO at the o Sureshot, the Annie Oakley & Fan Club News ...............................41 2020 Cowboy Way Jubilee that we decided Frank Butler Awards awarded Kids’ Corner — Word Search & Scramble ............42 Kids’ Corner — Coloring Page: Boss Man ...........43 a bulleted list (alphabetical) was the easiest to those who exhibit exemplary Just for Fun Quiz .............................44 way to tell you what’s happening! And yes, skills required of cowboy life, the Kids’ Corner — Last Issue’s Answers ...............45 we know you cannot possibly see and do it art, and, the work Opine: Readers Speak Their Minds .................45 all in one weekend, that’s okay! We’ll do it • Catered Buffet: Serving begins Shopping in San Angelo ..........................47 all again next year, and the next, and the… 7:30pm menu will be thoroughly 2020 Registration Form (actual Form) ........ 48–49 Advance Registration Extended ..................50 Authors: Linda Bond, Alex Cord, Ken Texan but we promise not too spicy! Discover San Angelo, Event Sponsors .............50 Farmer, Michael Gasaway, Eric Heisner, (assistance with buffet available) T.C. Miller, Ann Snuggs, Buck Steinke, • Dress up “cowboy formal” or come Event Sponsors Michael Thompson, & John T. Wayne as you are • Book Signings Celebrities: Cindy Mitchum Azbill, John • Meet & Greets Buttram, Robert Carradine, Gary Clarke, • Roundtable Discussions lead by Alex Cord, James Drury, Ken Farmer, Bur- Charles Williams, Will Rogers ton Gilliam, Kathy Garver, Clu Gulager, Medallion Awards Darby Hinton, Roberta Shore, Buck Taylor Awards Banquet: Ticket sales Deadline not confirmed, and ana ood April 15, 2020. Doors open 6:30pm, • Meet & Greets 11am-5pm daily ANGRY CACTUS assigned seating (Mr. Drury leaves 4pm daily) • Awards Presentation 7pm • Q & A sessions (TBD but WEST TEXAS BAR & GRI LL o Lone Star Legacy awarded to the approximately 10am-12pm, 3-5pm) individual who works at keeping • Workshops (see page 3 & pages the cowboy spirit alive 12–15 for details) continued on the next page 1 Cowboy Way Tribune Volume 2, Issue 3 2 Winter/Spring 2020 Cowboy Way Tribune continued from page 1, What’s Happening at the 2020 Cowboy Way Jubilee Contests & Auctions: Music & Poetry: • Costume Contest (daily 4pm) full list of perform- • heep elfies ontest (submit photos ers on our website, by May 25, 2020 by emailing to www.cowboyway “Sheep” [email protected]; jubilee.com/ winner announced in the Summer • Cowboy Music issue of the CW Tribune) interspersed by • Silent Auctions (daily 8am to 3pm) Cowboy Poets: benefitting the ary inise Foun- 9am-6pm Friday & dation and our local area 4H/FFA Saturday, 10:30am– organizations 5pm Sunday Fine (Western) Art Exhibit courtesy of • Campfire Sing-a- San Angelo Museum of Fine Art: long: Thursday • Ann Ayres, Bronzes 5pm-9pm-ish • Hugh Campbell, Paintings FREE to ALL • Animals • Raul Ruiz, Paintings & Bronzes • Dusk Jam session 5pm-7pm-ish » Animal Safety & Care, Leslie, Living • Buck Taylor, Paintings & Drawings • Evening Concerts: Stables Manager (He has been invited; not confirmed). » FRIDAY, MAY 1ST » Basic Saddling, Leslie, Living Stables • Samples from the SAMFA collections ° 7pm Stephen Pride Manager Food & Grub: ° 9pm Kristyn Harris » Trick Riding with Kristyn Harris • Bit Pruitt’s Chuck Wagon » SATURDAY, MAY 2ND (we are trying to get some livestock too) (Breakfast & Lunch on Friday & Sat- ° 7pm Martin & Pratt Duo w/ • Art urday, Lunch only on Sunday) Gary S. Pratt & Caleb Martin » Clay Sculpting with Ann Ayers $10 • Kona Ice ° 9pm RFD-TV’s Penny Gilley & • Kettle Corn the Texas All-Star Band » Fiber Arts (still in the works) • Area Restaurants, go here for a full list Pre-Event Discovery Tour: » San Angelo Museum of Fine Art Edu- Forsaken Westerns Film Festival, • 3-Day pre-event Discover San Ange- cation is considering a workshop sponsored by TheWesternsChannel.com: lo Tour, $155 per person (plus meals) • Fort Concho & History Related • TV Episodes: The Virginian, Death • Full Tour Itinerary here. » Meet the Mules: Equine Care & Mule Valley, High Chaparral, & More! • Sign Up Deadline is April 1, 2020 Lore, Leslie, Living Stables Manager • Vintage Films: Gene Autry, Roy Rog- (if we do not have at least 25 signed » Uniforms & Artifacts of the U.S. ers, John Wayne, & a few surprises up by April 2nd, the tours will be Cavalry, Cory Robison, Curator • Premiere: Eminence Hill, special canceled and refunded) » Cannon & Other Weapons, Cory showing of the Best Film 2019 Wild Vendors: Robison, Curator Bunch Film Festival; Rated R for • A complete list of vendors will be » Historical Guns with Oren Truit, mature audience (language, sex, posted on our website, www.cowboy- Historian violence); $10/person $5 Student ID/ wayjubilee.com/vendors/ as well as » Historical Skit with, Linda Bond, Active Duty Military ID on our Facebook page & group. Author $5 Fort Concho Museum: • Sam Austil & Marsha Ellis-Smith are • Music • Attendees receive FREE admission confirmed returning vendors » Harmonica for Beginners, Dale Myres to the Fort Concho Museum for the Workshops & Demos: (Book & Harmonica, $35; Harmonica duration of the Jubilee many of the workshops and demos are free, only $15) • Cannon Salutes Daily (times to be some will have a tip jar (please use!), and, » Learn to Yodel w/Janet McBride, determined & will be posted on the some are for a fee. The various fees cover World’s Best Yodeler Parade Field) basic materials and go towards the expenses ($10 adults, $5 kids) • Concho Cowboy Company— of the instructor/presenter. Full details will » Songwriting with Buck Helton $5 Re-Enactors 10am & 3pm Friday & be on our website by April 1st, click here for » Guitar with Kristyn Harris $10 Saturday, 11am & 3pm Sunday the link. • Weapons • Daily Flag Ceremony (9am raising & • Acting & Writing » The Art & Physics of Bullwhip Crack- 5pm lowering) » Acting with Gary Clarke $10 ing, John Phipps $5 • Historical Workshops » Child Actors Presentation with Actor » Gun Safety with Oren Truitt, SASS Livestock: Kathy Garver $5 Instructor • Ft. Concho Mules—Meet Betty, » Supporting the Stars with T.C. Miller, » Knife Throwing Demonstration Barney, and Mack Fiction Author $5 off book with John Phipps (if we can get City • Horses (regular & miniature sized) » Voice Overs with Kathy Garver $10 permission) • PAWS Animal Rescue Adoptions » Creative Writing for Beginners, Ken » Twirl a Lasso (TBD), well, it’s not • We’re still arranging/negotiating Farmer, Actor/Author $10 exactly a weapon…★ 3 Cowboy Way Tribune Volume 2, Issue 3 Editor's Corner WELCOME Y’ALL to issue three, volume two of the Cowboy Way Tribune, the of- ficial eine of the Cowboy Way Jubilee. We’re so excited you decided to take the time to read our ezine, thank you! And if you haven’t already pre-registered for the 2020 Cowboy Way Jubilee, well, just do it! It’s so much more than a celebrity signing or typical festival. Our cover arti- cle lists all the things that will be going on during the three-day celebration of everything cowboy, the 2020 Cowboy Way Jubilee. We try to make it so there’s always some- thing new. Y’all have a lot of question about our move and the Jubi- lee so hopefully this will help clear things up: Why did You Move Out of Oklahoma? We’re Okies. We Wanted to stay in Oklahoma. But we didn’t want to move the event to OKC or Tulsa, there were too many other events there competing for attendance. San Angelo called us (lit- erally!). We said no, but then thought, well, it doesn’t hurt to look. Truly if we built it from scratch, I do not believe we could have found a better venue. And then there’s San Angelo, Texas, the number one Old West town according to True West magazine. There is so much to do in the area that we even created a separate three-day pre-event tour, Discover San Angelo, for those who want to make this trip a full vacation! Once you arrive, you will understand our decision! Why Move to San Angelo, Texas? It is the number one Old West town according to True West maga- zine.