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Is there someone else watching for a new post? Ain't it pitiful? I must be ready for that "!2 Step Program" I've heard of ,... :D
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I'm waitin at the door for the UPS man with a new holster! ??? :o :-X :P ::) ;D
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:-[ :-[ But I'm a workin' !! ;D
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Pah - boredom!!!! Inexcusable!!! ;D ;D
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RJ:
Here's a trivia question to break your boredom:
Who is this man?
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My guess is Wild Bill Hickock.
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Right on, Bill!
(RJ, you had better check in. Bill is starting to run the table.)
OK, who is this?
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Wyatt Earp?
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My next guess is Doc Holliday.
I cheated this time by using google.
Bill
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John Wesley
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Bill is two for two. It's the old Doc.
Here's another one.
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Hmmm ... I am not good at these but this one I reckon is NOT William Boyd! History never was my strong point!
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#3 is John Wesley Harden, the jail house lawyer..
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I graduated with this fellow.
It is John Wesley Hardin.
I'll be dad-gum.
Bill
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I do my best to keep up with the where abouts of these Lawyer types. A slippery lot they are... :D
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Correct, it's JWH himself, the preacher's son.
Now, this one should be easy.
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Wyatt Earp
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Yup! Looks like Wyatt Earp to me.
Mike
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Did you know John Wesley Harden was the first [or one of] to wear a shoulder holster. It was after the "NO GUNS in town" laws were brought to force.
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Wyatt Earp it is.
And now that you are properly warmed up, this one should be a little more difficult. What was the name of this august group? (Extra points will be awarded for identifying any of them by name, particularly the gentleman standing third from the left in the back row.)
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Bat Masterson !
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RJ, you're absolutely right! That's the one and only W. B. "Bat" Masterson. The photograph (courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society) is of the "Dodge City Peace Commission" and was taken in June 1883. Front, l-r; Chas. E. Bassett, Wyatt S. Earp, Frank McLain, and Neil Brown. Back, l-r; W. H. Harris, Luke Short, W. B. "Bat" Masterson.
Allright, I'll post one more and then call it quits. This one may be unfamiliar at first, but you have certainly heard of him and his legacy.
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Judge Roy Bean
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Nope. Right part of the country but wrong branch of the government. ;)
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I say Pat Garrett.
Bill
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No, not the Kid's nemisis.
This legend once expressed his personal creed in the following words: "No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'."
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Well, I had to do a *Google* on that, so I will sit this one out..Thanks for the game........ :)
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RJ, you obviously got it right. The last photograph is of Captain W. J. McDonald, Company B of the Texas Rangers. The following is taken from the web site of the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame (http://www.texasranger.org/history/SilverStars1.htm):
ONE RIOT, ONE RANGER
The law authorized for Ranger companies a maximum of 20 men each. The career of Co. B. Capt. W. J. McDonald, and a book written about him, added much to the Ranger legend, including two of its most famous sayings.
The often cited "One Riot, One Ranger" appears to be based on several statements attributed to Capt. McDonald by Albert Bigelow Paine in his classic book, Captain Bill McDonald: Texas Ranger. When sent to Dallas to prevent a scheduled prizefight, McDonald supposedly was greeted at the train station by the city's anxious mayor, who asked: "Where are the others?" To that McDonald is said to have replied, "Hell! ain't I enough? There's only one prize-fight!"
And on the title page of Paine's 1909 book on McDonald are 19 words labeled as Capt. McDonald's creed: "No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'." Those words have evolved into the Ranger creed.
Thanks, guys, for playing along. As a kid back in Oklahoma, I grew up on this stuff.
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You guys just got way too much time on your hands LOL!! ;D ;D
Thx Richard for the edumification! :P
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Richard,
Keep 'em coming! I love the Texas Rangers and anything to do with them. ( and the old west.) Cowboys & cattle drives & chuck wagons and ridin & ropin! A faithful horse and a broke in saddle are just fine by me. A comfortable pair of boots and a cowboy hat to shade your eye's from the sun. The creak of leather and the smell of a mesquite fire at the end of a day. I don't think there is much better. Anybody got any stories about Tom Three Persons? I for one would love to hear them.
There is just something about this stuff that feels right.
Mike
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Mike:
Here are links to two books on Tom Three Persons:
http://www.purichpublishing.com/tomthree.htm
http://www.frontenachouse.com/books/8/Tom_Three_Persons/
And here is a photograph of him winning the 1912 Calgary Stampede bronc-riding contest on a bronc named "Cyclone":
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Thanks Richard,
That is just what I was looking for.
Mike
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Mike, you need to live in Mesquite, Texas!! Or cow town/Ft. Worth, Texas. Tom
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You're right Tom. I hear there is a little restaurant there in Fort Worth named the " Lonesome Dove" . That should be just about right for me. I spent some time in San Antonio 35 years ago. Folks were pretty nice. And the river walk was great. Probably changed a little since then.
Mike
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Mike,
I was also there in 1957 at San Antonio, then on to Hondo, TX.
That was a long time ago.
Bill
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Bill,
Funny, I don't feel any older. But the face I see in the mirror isn't the same face I saw 35 years ago. I think I've been switched when I was sleeping with an older version of myself. Must be something to do with either the Guvmint or my wife. One of the two of them are behind almost everything.
Mike
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Mike the couple that own Lonesome Dove had a TV show on the food channel last week. They traveled from Ft. Worth to LA doing great dinners at towns in between. San Antonio is much the same only bigger. Tom
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Mike:
Take comfort in the assurance that San Antonio's River Walk is still much the same as it was when you last saw it. I was there last year. It was as vibrant and alive as I had recalled it to be when I first experienced it as a much younger man in 1983.
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I've been thinking a lot lately about taking my wife on a Texas trip to get chili, tacos, and steaks.
As soon as I get rich, we will go, armed with a list of the most favored restaurants.
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When you and your wife come to Texas, start in Dallas and we will start y'all right. And, it does not take a lot of money. Tom
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Richard,
I feel much better knowing that there are somethings that stay pretty much the same. Tom, I'd like to go to that restaurant. My wife told me about it, knowing that I was a big fan of the Show. She may have seen it on the TV show you're talking about as she is always watching that channel and is always coming up with new recipes to try. Not that I'm complaining. But all of my pants are shrinking.....! Must be a new detergent!
Mike
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y'all come!!!!Tom
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And when you get to San Antonio's River Walk, be sure to plan to spend the better part of an evening at "Dirty Dick's." (His motto is, "You can't kill a man who was born to hang!")
I hasten to add that "Dick" and I are not related. ;D
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Richard,
Glad to hear that there is no relation. You had me a little worried for a moment!
Mike
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Richard,
I bought that book on Tom Three Persons, "Legend of an Indian Cowboy". Thanks for the heads up and the link.
Mike
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You're more than welcome, Mike. Enjoy the book.
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Mike:
I might add that my mother once told me back in Oklahoma that my Cherokee grandmother was very proud of Tom Three Persons after he had won that first "World Championship" bronc riding contest at the 1912 Calgary Stampede. So were countless other so-called Native Americans.
The scars of the Indian Wars were still relatively fresh in 1912, and my grandmother was quick to take comfort from the success of any of her fellow Native Americans. In those days, not only was my grandmother often stigmatized for being "an Indian" but also, as a woman, she didn't even have the right to vote. (You will recall that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was not ratified until 1920.) As mother told it, when grandmother finally got the right to vote, she would always get to the polls on election day regardless of the weather, even standing in a broiling sun or a driving rain to cast her ballot. (The little old lady also slept with a nickel-plated revolver under her pillow until the day she died.)
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Richard,
You are very fortunate to be descended from such a wonderful, resilient lady. To persevere in the face of such adversity is practically beyond comprehension. We are indeed lucky to have had such hardy and noble forefathers to set us on a straight and honest course, not that we as a nation didn't stray off course every once and a while. I think Tom Three Persons was a Great man and I never get tired of hearing stories about him, and of course the Texas Ranger's. I think they exemplify the great qualities that this country was founded on. And every once in a while, just when I think that things aren't looking so good, and the best is behind us, I look at todays Rangers, Navy Seal's, Army Special Force's, Delta, USMC Recon and the rest and I realize there are still rough men and women at the ready each night to do whatever it may take so that we and our loved ones may sleep safe in our beds. We are still in very good and capable hands. These young men and women, direct descendants of Sir Francis Marion, The old Swamp Fox himself, make him proud Every day with their every action. From the wind talkers of WWII to the Speceial Operations folks of today. They are hero's every last one. I'm Proud to call them " Fellow Americans!"
Mike