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Re: Bored?
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2005, 11:06:29 AM »
Correct, it's JWH himself, the preacher's son.

Now, this one should be easy.

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Re: Bored?
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2005, 11:12:00 AM »
Wyatt Earp
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Re: Bored?
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2005, 12:16:41 PM »
Yup! Looks like Wyatt Earp to me.

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Re: Bored?
« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2005, 12:21:26 PM »
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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Re: Bored?
« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2005, 02:39:11 PM »
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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Re: Bored?
« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2005, 03:08:35 PM »
Bat Masterson  !
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Re: Bored?
« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2005, 03:39:52 PM »
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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Re: Bored?
« Reply #22 on: August 01, 2005, 05:08:35 PM »
Judge Roy Bean
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Re: Bored?
« Reply #23 on: August 01, 2005, 05:25:33 PM »
Nope.  Right part of the country but wrong branch of the government.  ;)
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Re: Bored?
« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2005, 05:29:02 PM »
I say Pat Garrett.

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Re: Bored?
« Reply #25 on: August 01, 2005, 06:01:37 PM »
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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Re: Bored?
« Reply #26 on: August 01, 2005, 06:08:54 PM »
Well, I had to do a *Google* on that,  so I will sit this one out..Thanks for the game........ :)
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Re: Bored?
« Reply #27 on: August 01, 2005, 06:32:32 PM »
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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Re: Bored?
« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2005, 06:48:10 PM »
You guys just got way too much time on your hands LOL!! ;D ;D

Thx Richard for the edumification! :P
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Re: Bored?
« Reply #29 on: August 01, 2005, 09:18:53 PM »
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.

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