tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32945831464182433402024-03-16T02:33:16.753-05:00Cowboys and Chuckwagon Cooking Western History and information surrounding the Chuck Wagon and cattle drives. Cast iron cooking, cowboy coffee, recipes, stories and much morecowboysandchuckwagoncookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10874118941778139191noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294583146418243340.post-22750245174377946072022-11-23T17:14:00.002-06:002022-11-23T17:14:17.504-06:00Wagon Lanterns: <p><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Prior to the hot and cold blast lantern patents, they were known as the dead flame: Meaning a simple wick in a fuel oil such as kerosene. Through the ages, fuels varied greatly from whale oil to various spirit alcohols. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202124;">In </span><b style="color: #202124;">1846 Abraham</b><span style="color: #202124;"> Pineo Gesner invented a substitute for whale oil for lighting, distilled from coal. Later made from petroleum, kerosene became a popular lighting fuel. Modern and most popular versions of the kerosene lamp were later constructed by Polish inventor and pharmacist Ignacy Łukasiewicz, in Lviv in 1853. <br /></span><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">
While patents continue to improve dead flame lanterns, they had been around since the 18th century. François-Pierre-Amédée Argand, known to everyone as Aimé, was born in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1780, he moved to France where he developed the first wick lamp that was ten times brighter than candles. Though his design used a flat cotton wick wrapped circular into a tube shape, it would lead to the dead flame lanterns. Argand's design of his lamp to called for a brass reservoir which held about 12 ounces of oil, a glass globe rested above the reservoir which protected the flame, and had a means for the wick to be adjusted. The Burn time is about one hour per half ounce. This will slightly vary from types of fuels, although Kerosene became the most common along trail drives that followed the civil war. Prior to the war, rapeseed oil, lard, whale oil, tallow, and in 1835, Henry Porter of Bangor, Maine, patented his camphene mixture and opened a business to sell it in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The concoction combined one-part turpentine with four parts alcohol, and a small amount of camphor for aroma. Nevertheless, kerosene would become the standard fuel by the 1860's.</span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Kerosene fuel was marketed in different fashions, but commonly was 42-gallon wood kegs shipped to various distributors. Upon arrival, repackage into small containers. Some were 10-gallon wood kegs with metal lids, then even smaller packages in half gallon glass with a metal lid and tin metal casing, and even small copper flask. Until packaging in a tin can in the 1880's become the common means for marketing, general stores might receive Kerosene packaged in many different forms. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Chuckwagon’s likely carried no less than two lanterns, though larger outfits may have carried more as night herding was often performed riding horseback carrying a lantern with you. At camp, the cook kept the lantern or two lite throughout the night. This made relocating the camp easy for night riders. Only during a bright full moon, could a rider easily see around the herds. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> One mention of lanterns was made by Richard (Dick) Withers of Boyes, Montana in the book “Trail drivers of Texas” written by George Saunders. “We often used lanterns around the herds at night, but on that night a lantern was not needed, for the lightning flashed so continuously and so bright we could see everything plainly and smell burning brimstone all the time." </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Since a lantern used about half an ounce of fuel per hour, and burned about 10 hours each day, then one could figure needing about 5-6 ounces of fuel per lantern. If the wagon carried just two lanterns, and the drive was 60 days long, a minimum 5.6 gallons of kerosene plus one extra wick per lantern. Figuring 4 lanterns over the course of 90 days, equates to 16 gallons. Most likely, the wagon would carry smaller containers available ranging anywhere from 1 to ten-gallon sizes. This would highly depend upon goods available at a general store when supplying the wagon.</span><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyskafgbMSav_v17COMPndN1rtcqwKcewRCNPzV_WRFRgQ4_Ura-vGxpg-gEfn0D5_7Fnk-vHex0tdAyh8cXZR1Wpa_JJK4rxDd_0ItCt98WIJSPMFX8MgAZw0QcqthDwER5D71MEq4se1/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="891" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyskafgbMSav_v17COMPndN1rtcqwKcewRCNPzV_WRFRgQ4_Ura-vGxpg-gEfn0D5_7Fnk-vHex0tdAyh8cXZR1Wpa_JJK4rxDd_0ItCt98WIJSPMFX8MgAZw0QcqthDwER5D71MEq4se1/w348-h400/image.png" width="348" /></a></div></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Dead Flame Kerosene Lantern Pre Civil War era. Left is to round cotton wick while right is a flat 3/8 inch wick. Both were easily adjusted and useful... </span><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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</span></div></div>cowboysandchuckwagoncookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10874118941778139191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294583146418243340.post-88954614220742412362021-03-10T18:48:00.001-06:002021-03-10T18:48:15.245-06:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK2cjL0Fv2v9el7iZbzc-OkNO0w5hpXNPyLccUAId91kQoJj2fjinxzO5MtZXhQp6DSPXQp0YhE9nTe8_6Cy-YxhdRs1RXu3eCOsIBi0TXPjKi_88XmUV6KC064MwWxCUk2JXqGn1ka6r6/" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1200" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK2cjL0Fv2v9el7iZbzc-OkNO0w5hpXNPyLccUAId91kQoJj2fjinxzO5MtZXhQp6DSPXQp0YhE9nTe8_6Cy-YxhdRs1RXu3eCOsIBi0TXPjKi_88XmUV6KC064MwWxCUk2JXqGn1ka6r6/w400-h333/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The SADDLE shown is known as the Dixie Thompson Saddle from the Dixie W. Thompson Estate; donated to M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. The silver saddle, once on display in the Historical Society museum, was a wonder of its age, long before “Hollywood cowboys” began showing off their saddles under preposterous loads of sterling. In June 2015 the saddle was auction through Brian Lebel's Old West Auction, closing bid at $195,500. The proceeds benefit the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s acquisition funds. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Dixie W. Thompson, was one of Santa Barbara’s most colorful pioneers. He arrived in 1858 and became a future owner of the Ontare Ranch which comprised the San Roque-Rutherford Park district of today. Dixie was born in Maine in 1826 and went to sea as a cabin boy, winding up as ship captain of his own vessel by 1848. When he heard of the discovery of gold in California, like many others, Dixie joined the Gold Rush of ’49 heading first down the Atlantic coast to Panama, then crossing by land until reaching the Pacific side where he caught a ship for San Francisco, California. Though with scant success mining for gold, Dixie returned to the sea and made his home port on Santa Rosa Island opposite Santa Barbara. The island belonged to his relative, Captain Alpheous B. Thompson, one of Santa Barbara’s earliest Anglo settlers. After several years of shipping sheep and cattle from Santa Rosa, Dixie had made enough money to purchase two tracts of land, one in Ventura County, the other on the outskirts of Santa Barbara – the Ontare Ranch.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On the ranch, he raised sheep and cattle, but the other land was cultivated for farming. Dixie introduced the crop Lima Beans to the California area and developed a walnut orchard. To the locals of the area, the bean harvest was a spectacular sight with itinerant crews bringing in their steam engine, separator, cookhouse and bedroll wagons. A man of great personal charm, Dixie Thompson was better known as a boniface than a rancher. He managed the original Arlington Hotel and invested into local businesses. At times, Dixie mounted on a prancing Morgan stallion from his Ontare breeding stables, then would ride down State Street backwards, just to the delight of tourists. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ehtcLosxjhzOP7_-QFR3bzvIIqK4PXeOejbNCLp44VEUxVmi-tYhIDSr6MI9rB5PnGnSnSPzLI0b_r_TR4RtDMKDqm8nsOGo1ObYrMPKah7btr-NSR9Q5O4um-ROuVIWJ434yrVOMMRI/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><img alt="" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="1024" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ehtcLosxjhzOP7_-QFR3bzvIIqK4PXeOejbNCLp44VEUxVmi-tYhIDSr6MI9rB5PnGnSnSPzLI0b_r_TR4RtDMKDqm8nsOGo1ObYrMPKah7btr-NSR9Q5O4um-ROuVIWJ434yrVOMMRI/" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br />By the 1880s, his growing wealth allowed him to live in some comfort and as publications of the period note, he became very famous for the outfit created for riding his horses named Canute and Tecuinseh. Thompson acquired the best gear possible and consciously celebrated the Hispanic traditions of early California. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Thompson commissioned Loomis Saddlery to make him the best of saddles. The making around (circa 1880) and took two years to finish. Sherman Loomis, a native of Pennsylvania, moved to California and established his Santa Barbara saddlery in 1858. His business prospered with a growing well-deserved reputation employing some of the best leather toolers and silver smiths including the renown Jose Alvino Mesa, master saddler and stamper. By 1875 he employed seven saddlers and harness makers though Loomis never lacked competition in Santa Barbara. His firm was the earliest, largest, and longest-lived. Judging from surviving examples, his work was also superior in terms of design, craftsmanship and decoration. Loomis Saddlery was the shop of choice for wealthy rancheros, both Hispanic and Anglo. This reputation was further enhanced in 1883 when Princess Louise stopped to admire a saddle in Loomis’ shop, and asked if the art form used to decorate the saddle could be applied to smaller items. She returned to England with several portfolios and ladies’ belts done in the style that became known as Mexican Art Leather. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In designing the works of the Dixie Saddle, the saddle was built by Al Loomis, working in his brother’s shop, and the tooling is clearly the fine detailed floral work of that shop. The edges of each component are also embroidered in the piteado style with cactus fiber and the loop seat was quilted and padded; adorn with solid engraved silver corners with attached rings; extensive and fine silver mountings in floral designs with lions and other decorations at the front; silver-wrapped, tooled stirrups. Separate bottom third-skirt, combination saddle pad, with tooled edges and silver accents. The bridle features a massive head plate, hand engraved in scroll, “D.W. Thompson. Santa Barbara. 88”; domed conchos and huge silver buckles. The bit was also overlaid, engraved silver by Jose de Jesus Mardueno. The reins were of knitted silver wire with engraved chain connectors, with attached romal with six ball-tipped chain poppers. The martingale was knitted silver wire with a large, heavy silver central heart with repose flowers and leaves. Often remarked by on lookers as the most breathtaking and perhaps finest saddle outfit ever seen. The saddle pad is also tooled on the edges. As evidence that silver was added after initial manufacture, one can see conchos overlaying the delicate tooled leather.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Dixie rode the saddle in numerous parades, and it was exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The saddle is discussed in detail in numerous newspaper articles of the time, including the May 4, </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNc_w3w3IMTO9_edCIEQ5ykmJQcYZmhqCXfER5CGqIVy0DzDCf4q5tBu5vhYqsQbO2wXhZTMuO9v0ugxuZDG24qitONHT-KO7x8Q7grMre2__UfAcVZou-_LOJQyRAwknf96HDwDcUmYBP/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNc_w3w3IMTO9_edCIEQ5ykmJQcYZmhqCXfER5CGqIVy0DzDCf4q5tBu5vhYqsQbO2wXhZTMuO9v0ugxuZDG24qitONHT-KO7x8Q7grMre2__UfAcVZou-_LOJQyRAwknf96HDwDcUmYBP/" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br />1896 “San Francisco Call”, which referred to the saddle as having “the reputation of being the most gorgeous thing of its kind in the world.”</span></div></div><p></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Dixey was 77 when he fell victim to a flu attack in April, 1903. His widow, the former Nancy Swett of Maine, resided in the stately white colonial home at 1415 Chapala Street. Today, this address is now the office of the Southern Santa Barbara County Board of Realtors. She had donated Dixie’s saddle and even his sombrero to Historical Society Museum. Thompson’s large barns at the breeding stables stood decades after his death, though caught fire in 1928. By the 1950’s, Thompson’s Ranch remain merely a memory lost through a housing boom of Santa Barbara and while he was prominent in the Ventura area of California, today Thompson Boulevard is named for him, through his legacy best remains through the exquisite works of his Loomis Saddle where time has forgotten the many vaqueros and cowboys who once worked the Santa Barbara range.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Story by: Roger Edison</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVkz2payOtiMt73d-4HDDD8wdc4FW0jSbPEj8PxWRnMSbSYILKh3AaMOCoURrV0EaVmPWFWiMxP6lBZPUn5K5arWvb1dhNDKgc6P6bNfCTiCa6zYOV9cSqof8ujxFkWO5PUxTKZjEOvL4/" style="background-color: #fff2cc; 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<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">An American inventor, Samuel Colt was born 1777 in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, raised as a farmer moved the family to the city where he became a businessman. Growing up, young Samuel often worked at his dad's textile mill. Fascinated by all things mechanical, he frequently dismantle items and reassembled them just to understand how they operated. One of his earliest admiration's was for </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">a flintlock pistol that belong to his grandfather, Major John Caldwell who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. </span></b></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">At 16, Samuel was at boarding school studying Navigation attending the Amherst Academy in Massachusetts. Often finding his youthful mischief getting him in trouble, Samuel was expelled.</span> </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Highly disappointed in Samuel being removed from school and completing a greater education, his father sent him off to learn the seamen's trade. While aboard the sailing Brig, "Corvo," Colt saw how the anchor windlass, called a capstan functioned. The pawl and ratchet mechanism gave him an idea on building a pistol that would have a cylinder rotate much like the capstan improving on the existing design known as the Pepper Box where pistols were designed with three, four to even seven barrels, but each manually turned to fire the next round. Taking his knife, he carved from wood a design that was mechanically turned to fire. This would allow to simple cock the device and the barrel rotated to the next chamber. Once he arrived back home in the United States the following year, Colt made two working models, one a rifle, the other a pistol financed by his father. However, while the rifle </span></span></b><b style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">worked perfectly, the first pistol blew up and Colt's father would have nothing else to do with Samuel's desire to build guns. </b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>saving some money, he arranged to begin building guns with proper gunsmith tools. Colt consulted with a friend of his father, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, who loaned him $300 to start his arms business. Ellsworth advice Colt to perfect his prototype before applying for patent. Hiring a gunsmith named John Pearson, Colt continue to improve his pistol. By 1835, his design was perfected. Ellsworth advised Colt to patent the pistol in Europe first. That August, Colt set sail for England to secure his patent. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>English officials were reluctant to issue a patent though no fault could be found with the gun and he was award his first patent (Number 6909). Upon his return to America, he applied for his U.S. patent for a "revolving gun"; which he was granted the patent on February 25, 1836. Again, improving design, Colt filed another patent, numbered 1304, dated August 29, 1836, protected the basic principles of his revolving-breech loading, folding trigger firearm named the Colt Paterson. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>The Colt Paterson revolver was the first commercial repeating firearm employing a multiple chambered revolving cylinder aligned with a single, stationary barrel. Its design was patented by Samuel Colt in France, England, and on February 25, 1836 he received patent in the United States. The pistol derived its name from being produced in Paterson, New Jersey. Originally, the Paterson was a 5-shot revolver produced in .28 caliber model. The following year, Colt introduced the same weapon in the .36 caliber model. To load, the user had to disassemble the revolver partially to re-load it. Starting in 1839, however, a reloading lever and a capping window were incorporated into the design. This allowed reloading with more ease no longer requiring the partial disassembly of the revolver. Unlike the later revolvers, a folding trigger was incorporated into the Colt Paterson. The trigger only became visible upon cocking the hammer. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Colt visited the U.S. Secretary of War seeking a sales contract to supply the Army with his newly design Colt Revolvers. The Army viewed the percussion cap Colt pistol as too costly, inaccurate and not reliable for military use. Unsuccessful at landing the government contract with mere sales scatter among Florida where the second Seminole War (1835-1842) was on going, and to the newly formed Republic of Texas which outfitted the Texas Navy with his pistols, the revenue was not enough to continue business. In 1842, the company was forced to close and the manufacturing tooling, gun and parts inventory auctioned off. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>It would be Samuel Walker that would bring Colt back to manufacturing pistols several years later, but due to the bankruptcy of Colt's company, he turn his vision towards a new development of underwater mines patenting underwater electrical detonators and waterproof cable. In 1842, Colt demonstrated the underwater detonator device destroying a moving Naval Vessel to the satisfaction of the United States Navy. President John Tyler was highly impressed. However, John Quincy Adams, serving as US Representative from Massachusetts stated the project as "not fair and honest warfare" calling the Colt mine an "unchristian contraption." </b></span><br /><b><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>The Republic of Texas President, Sam Houston, commissioned General Alexander Somervell to undertake a punitive expedition in retaliation of Mexico's incursions. Sam Walker was quick to volunteer becoming a private in the Texas Army. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>In collaboration between Captain Samuel Walker, former Texas Ranger who was currently serving with the U.S. Army and Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor, the Colt Walker Pistol was created in 1846, even though the final sales contract was not signed until 4 January of 1847. Colt made the many changes requested by Walker to the previous Peterson 36 pistol. The Walker would have full trigger guard, 9 inch barrel and be chambered the .44 caliber bullet with 60 grains of black powder. The equivalent of a modern day .44 magnum. COlt manufactured 1,100 of these pistols. 1,000 for the U.S. Army and the remaining sold to private parties and promotional gifts. In gratitude of Samuel Walker, he called the new pistol the Colt Walker named after the name sake with hopes to improve sales. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>While the new Walker pistol was truly powerful and able to hit targets easily at 100 yards distances, it did have some problems. The cylinders at times ruptured after firing, often caused by excessive black powder grain as the normal load of black powder pistols is 30 grains. At times, soldiers allowed the spilling of powder across the cylinder causing all the chambers to fire at once. Soon, soldiers used lard and rub it across the loaded cylinders to prevent spark from firing the other chambers. As the conical bullets where replacing the lead ball shape bullets, soldiers at times loaded the bullet backwards causing the pistol to explode upon firing. Perhaps the worst problem was an inadequate loading lever that would fall upon recoil locking up the pistol cylinder action. Rangers and soldiers used a rawhide strip looped over the barrel end to prevent to lever from future falling. Nevertheless, fewer than 300 Walker Pistols were ever sent back to Colt for repairs. Walker stated that this pistol would become the peacemaker of future wars. A name that would be given to a future design. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Colt would introduced improved pistols from the Walker design with the Dragoon in 1848 correcting problems of the previous Walker. The Dragoon, shorter and lighter was waist holster unlike the heavy Walker's holster on the saddle. Other Models of the Dragoon would followed in addition to the Colt 1851 Navy .36, and 1860 Army. Colt leaped at nearly every opportunity to improve his pistol except one. In the early 1850, ball and cap action was prevalent though the metallic shell cartridge was being introduced. In 1852, an employee of Colt's named Rollin White, came up with an idea to improve the Colt pistols. As metal cartridge bullets were being introduce, White saw that the Colt pistol's could be manufactured to accept the new shell by boring the cylinder completely through and no longer need the cap nipple or be loaded as previously fashioned. Taking this idea to Colt, White found the idea rejected and fired. White would go forward and patent this idea in December of 1854 and later signed agreements with Smith and Wesson for exclusive use of the patient. Despite Colt's critical error not accepting White's idea, Colt would become the first American manufacturing tycoon. The civil war found Colt with huge contracts with sales in both northern and southern states, although Colt would not see the end of the war dying from Rheumatic Fever in January of 1862.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Walker with only 50 men repulsed an attack of 600 Mexican lancers. He maintained a calm manner in battle keeping courage and discipline among the ranks. But Santa Anna had begun one final counteroffensive desiring to cut off Scott's Army along the coast. Word had reached Walker in early October 1847, that Santa Ann and his lancers were in the town of Huamantla eleven miles from his mounted company and two other escort companies. Just days before, Walker received two special .44 pistols from Colt who had them both engraved in Walker's honor of him helping redesign the new pistol. Each massive gun weight 5 pounds loaded that Walker had holster in the pommel. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In the days of the cattle drives, a soap bar was a luxury. Cowboys worked the herds of cattle along dusty trails only to wipe off the dust with the wetting of their bandana. Day to day, the hygiene more often was not so pleasant except when resting the herd along one of the many river banks crossed as they made their way to market. <br /> <br />On those occasion, the cowboy could strip down to his yankee suit and scrub the miles of dust from his body. As well, take the liberty to clean his clothes and gear removing the sweat from saddle blankets and the dinge of his garments. <br /> <br />Most manufactured soaps were sold by the keg until the mid-19th century when soap bars began being marketed. Before the mid-nineteenth century, Americans seldom bathed for personal cleanliness. Many considered bathing to be unhealthy, believing it removed a “protective” layer of oil and dirt and exposed the body to unclean water and dangerous “miasmas,” or diseased air. Although great effort went into washing clothes, Americans associated the bathing of the body with negative stereotypes of European excess, luxury, and moral and physical softness.<br /> <br />After the Civil War, attitudes toward hygiene and bathing began to change. As an understanding of germ theory—the idea that microbes cause illness—came to be increasingly widespread, Americans began to place a greater emphasis on the role of sanitation in preventing disease and infection. By the 1880s, growing numbers of doctors promoted personal cleanliness as one of the most important factors in stopping disease.<br /> <br />In 1840 the J.B. Williams Company in Glastonbury, Connecticut, manufactured soap under the name Ivorine. Williams decided to focus on its shaving soap and sold <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3hJ0O_szfPtAc6TG5S01-LEoVgjBWvl-vU8m_SG4QxXnN_-QimbLH6uD9iwiWGOaJT2sa6JcbjPuB-54hz5mfrw12ePWtxzlQD97Z4OLuv8FGx6p0xu9kuFzu0kF1_mub3oqAgnmYzN9s/s1600/Ivory+1800s_Blue.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3hJ0O_szfPtAc6TG5S01-LEoVgjBWvl-vU8m_SG4QxXnN_-QimbLH6uD9iwiWGOaJT2sa6JcbjPuB-54hz5mfrw12ePWtxzlQD97Z4OLuv8FGx6p0xu9kuFzu0kF1_mub3oqAgnmYzN9s/s1600/Ivory+1800s_Blue.jpg" /></a> Ivorine to Procter & Gamble, . American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by English American William Procter and Irish American James Gamble who would later rename the product to Ivory. <br /> <br />By 1874 Procter & Gamble trademarked "Ivory", as the name of its new soap product. The name was created by Harley Procter, the founder's son, who was inspired by Psalms 45:8 in the Bible: "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad."<br /><br />As Ivory is one of P&G's older products (first sold in 1879), P&G is sometimes called "Ivory Towers" and its factory and research center in St. Bernard, Ohio, is named "Ivorydale". <br /><br /><br />Ivory's first slogan, "It Floats!", was introduced at the end of the trail drives in 1891. The product's other well-known slogan,"Pure" (was also in use by 1895), was based on the <br />results of an analysis by an independent laboratory that Harley Procter hired to demonstrate that Ivory was purer than the castile soap then available. <br /><br />In the P&G company archives, documentation was found that revealed that chemist James N. Gamble, son of the other founder, had discovered how to make the soap float and noted the result in his writings. When mixing the soap, whipping air into the substance allowed for the bonding ingredients to float on water surface. It is believed that this may have been from accident leaving the mixing machine on far too long, but became a normal practice. This allowed to use the soap whether in a wash tub, river or bowl and not losing the bar to sinking. <br /><br />Yet hygiene in the Americas was in the making. For the Cowboy, the river worked as his tub and running water was decades away. Civic and governmental organizations pushed for access to plumbing and bathing for the poorer classes. In “A Nation that Bathes Together,” Andrea Renner notes that these organizations equated unassimilated immigrants and poverty with a lack of hygiene. For many reformers, “poor working-class hygiene was viewed as a sign of moral failure as well as a threat to public health.” To address this problem, New York City built free public bath houses to encourage bathing. In 1891, New Yorkers were each given a free cake of Colgate soap as they waited their turn to try out the city’s first public bath.<br /><br />Good personal hygiene now became synonymous with being a good American. By 1890, soap manufacturers, such as Colgate, Proctor and Gamble, Palmolive, Mennen Company, Bristol-Meyers, and Johnson & Johnson, had proliferated. Soap companies used the perceived connection between Americanness and cleanliness to their advantage. Advertisements showed soaps as products of progress, able to wash away foreignness, ignorance, poverty, lawlessness, and general immorality. </span><img alt="Related image" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/17/ff/63/17ff637ef178674072051aa8a68f7674.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The bartender ask, "What will you have?" as the cowboy replies, <b>"Give me a shot of whiskey."</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The noun; shot glass is a small, heavy glass for serving a shot of whiskey or liquor. The amount of spirits a person receives in a shot glass varies by country, from as little as 20 mL to 60 mL. (The United States) falls slightly in the middle since our traditional 1.5 US fl oz equals about 44 mL). Although, in the United States there is no actual standard set forth by the government regulating the exact amount of liquid that needs to be a shot, except in Utah where it is defined as 1.5 fl oz. THe modern term is jigger for the exact measurement of 1.5 fluid ounce.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The first mention using the term "shot glass" can be found in the New York Times during the 1940s. Even though shot glasses as we know them today were extensively used across American towns during the 1930s. But, we see these act repeated by movies over and over again. So where did Shot Glass originate?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Forms of shot glasses do date back more than 200 years, and it seems nobody will agree on just when, or where and just how they came about. So here are a few on the lore of shot glasses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">- In the early days following the American Revolution, it was common that dinner tables include a small glass. The glass was used by members and guest seated while eating to place lead shot often remaining in hunted foul being serve, hence the term "Shot Glass."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">- Although, others will suggest, it comes from German chemist Friedrich Otto Schott, the co-founder of the glassworks factory Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Genossen which in 1879, Schott developed a new lithium-based glass that possessed novel optical properties. Though not a glass for serving whiskey from, it was “Americanized” in saloons to serve SHOT vice Schott Glass.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">- Less told but known was a glass resting on the writing desk. The small thick walled glass would be filled with lead shot. As you finished writing be it letters or entries into ledgers, it provide a place for the feather ink quill to rest upright when not in use, trust the lead shot filled glass.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">- I even recall hearing someone tell me another story as we sat in a lounge ordering a shot of whiskey for everyone at table. They exclaimed, and this is why it is called the shot glass. They then drank the content in one quick gulp and slam the glass to the table echoing the sound of a shot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">when cowboys flanked the counter of saloon bars. At the end of the cattle drive, still waiting to be paid, the cowboys had not money, but since the cost of a shot of whiskey happen to be about the same price as one bullet, the patrons toss their pistol or rifle cartridge upon the bar in trade for the small glass of whiskey. One shot for one shot.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black;">Remove the snake head. Merely cut through the snake one inch behind the head and remove. Rattlesnake fangs are still dangerous. Ensure to not allow contact with the fangs. By cutting behind the head, this ensures there is no venom gland. You can also remove the tail rattlers or if desired, leave it with the skin. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Long before soda pop, Gatorade, or can drinks, a common hydrator for field hands, farmers and those working the outdoors during warm summer months was a drink called Switchell. One wrangler rode up upon the chuckwagon to replenish his canteen with water and mumbled at the cook, "What I would give for a cup of switchell" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The drink mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book, "The Long Winter" describes the switchel beverage that her mother had sent for Laura and he<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">r father to drink while haying: "Ma had sent them ginger-water. She had sweetened the cool well-water</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with sugar, flavored it with vinegar, and put in plenty of ginger to warm their stomachs so they could drink till they were not thirsty. Ginger-water would not make them sick, as plain cold water would when they were so hot." Since the drink had become common serving during the haying seasons, often, it was called Haymaker's punch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">From Practical American Cookery and Domestic Economy, Elizabeth Hall (Miller, Orton & Co: New York, 1853) The drink was made using the following recipe: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">5 cups of cold water</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">½ cup of blackstrap molasses</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">¼ cup of apple cider vinegar (preferably raw, unfiltered)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It was not uncommon during the 19th century to find ginger spice dried and grounded. Although, the same drink can be make using fresh ginger root. Nevertheless, switchell would be a luxury that most Cowboys on the trail never enjoyed as outfits supplied minimum needs and coffee or water was the common beverage of the trail-hand drover.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here’s a classic Haymaker’s Punch recipe found in the archives of <b><em>The Old Farmer’s </em><em>Almanac:</em></b></span></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger </span></span> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The electrolyte potassium found in each ingredient other than water makes Switchel a natural health tonic that boosts the immune system. Apple cider vinegar also helps assist in detoxify your organs!</span></div>
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cowboysandchuckwagoncookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10874118941778139191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294583146418243340.post-21296607180302715672018-08-26T12:47:00.000-05:002019-07-03T01:35:11.747-05:00GUNS on the CATTLE DRIVE<br />
T<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he Cowboy of the "WILD WEST" remains one of the worlds greatest icons. Perhaps much of this legendary status can be credit to Dime Novels and Hollywood movies that often portray the Cowboy on the western frontier as a ruthless gunman or the heroic lawman. Though, in fact most Cowboys were merely hard working men of all ages. Men looking for an opportunity to earn a good wage who were not afraid to endure the elements of being a cowboy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The gun was a necessary tool out west. It was not just for outlaws or lawmen. It helped aid with hunting, protection from dangerous predators including becoming easy prey to ill-meaning humans. It was a necessary tool yet rarely used on the trail drives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the famous 1880 photo from the Library of Congress, a Cowboy is photograph with his essential tools of the trade. Although, the photo does not show him working cattle at the time. It does show the cowboy sporting a wide brim hat, his bandanna tied around his neck, bedroll and slicker and lariat tied to the saddle. Likely, this cowboy was working the range as he carries both rifle and pistol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unlike holsters of the early western movies worn low off the hip and strung around the thigh for quick draw, the early cowboy wore full size holsters high on the waste. Often, the hammer rest on an empty cylinder as a safety precaution to prevent accidental firing.</span><br />
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Many Cowboys also carried a pistol strapped to the pommel of the saddle. A pommel carry also allowed for the cowboy to carry food items such as hard tack, jerky and such and not have to reach around to a rear saddle bag. It kept the gun handy when needed, yet out of the way when working cattle and swinging a lasso.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Be it a rifle or pistol, should a gun go off during the cattle drive, odds are, the cattle just might stampede. Not every cowboy owned a gun, although most did and often, the pistols were ball and cap revolvers such as the 1851 Colt Navy .36 caliber or 1858 Remington Army .44 until around 1875 when shell cartridge pistols and ammunition became more available and affordable. Rifles were often a single shot carbine or black powder buffalo gun in the early days. Towards the end of the trail driving era, lever action repeating rifles would be readily available and becoming affordable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">An American inventor, Samuel Colt was born 1777 in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, raised as a farmer moved the family to the city where he became a businessman. Growing up, young Samuel often worked at his dad's textile mill. Fascinated by all things mechanical, he frequently dismantle items and reassembled them just to understand how they operated. One of his earliest admiration's was for </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">a flintlock pistol that belong to his grandfather, Major John Caldwell who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>saving some money, he arranged to begin building guns with proper gunsmith tools. Colt consulted with a friend of his father, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, who loaned him $300 to start his arms business. Ellsworth advice Colt to perfect his prototype before applying for patent. Hiring a gunsmith named John Pearson, Colt continue to improve his pistol. By 1835, his design was perfected. Ellsworth advised Colt to patent the pistol in Europe first. That August, Colt set sail for England to secure his patent. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Colt Paterson revolver was the first commercial repeating firearm employing a multiple chambered revolving cylinder aligned with a single, stationary barrel. Its design was patented by Samuel Colt in France, England, and on February 25, 1836 he received patent in the United States. The pistol derived its name from being produced in Paterson, New Jersey. Originally, the Paterson was a 5-shot revolver produced in .28 caliber model. The following year, Colt introduced the same weapon in the .36 caliber model. To load, the user had to disassemble the revolver partially to re-load it. Starting in 1839, however, a reloading lever and a capping window were incorporated into the design. This allowed reloading with more ease no longer requiring the partial disassembly of the revolver. Unlike the later revolvers, a folding trigger was incorporated into the Colt Paterson. The trigger only became visible upon cocking the hammer<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Samuel Walker would help reshape and revive COLT PISTOLS. Although, one needs to understand Walker and his history, to see how and why Colt was important to him. Born 1815 in Maryland, Walker had served in the U.S. Army during the Second Seminole Indian wars in Florida. He received a promotion to Corporal for "Exceptional Courage" in the Battle of Hacheeluski. In 1838, Walker was discharged and found his way to Texas in 1842. Texas was still a young country winning independence from Mexico in 1836. Nevertheless, still under constant harassment from Mexico, many settlers of Texas joined militias to assist protecting local areas from Mexican soldiers and Indian raids. Walker soon became a member of the Bastrop Militia participating in the Battle of Salado Creek. There, the militia and members of the Texas Rangers defeated a large Mexican Force of nearly 1,200 under the Command of French Mercenary, General Adrian Woll. Following the victorious battle, Sam's militia joined forces with the Rangers under command of Jack C. Hays. The Texas Rangers pursued the Mexican Army as they retreated toward the Rio Grande, but outnumbered, the Texas Rangers returned to San Antonio after several minor skirmishes. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Although, on the morning of December 27th, General Ampudia reversed his decision, deciding to march all able bodies to Matamoros where they were held until ordered to Mexico City. In February, the prisoners were en route to the capitol, Mexico City where on the 11th, in Salado, the men overthrew the guards and made a successful escape. Over the next seven days, the Texans worked to make their way back across the Rio Grande, though few succeeded. Most wander across the harsh terrain becoming lost. In the end, only three men made it back to Texas with the remaining 176 recaptured. </span></b></span><br />
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Robert (Bob) Heavirland is a retired engineer who has worked with large manufactures during his life including Andersen Windows and FMC Corporation. While researching information on sheepwagons, Bob found you could find plans, but little information that assisted in being helpful. Whether construction a full scale wagon or building a model, readers will understand how a sheepherders wagon was constructed. In his book, you will see his extreme focus to the attention to detail. Over 100 color photographs help illustrate readers with the do's and the don'ts that aid in restoring any wagon correctly. His book is a clear path from the start to finish. </div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;">The multi-purpose tool <b>"<span class="highlightNode" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(88, 144, 255, 0.298039); padding: 0px 1px;">Universal Tool</span>"</b> could be used as a trivet, stove lid lifter, boiled pot lifter, meat tenderizer, bottle opener, pie crimper and candle holder. As a trivet it could not only allow skillets or cookware to be laid upon it but the old press irons. Some folks have mention it as ``household protector`` or ``lady`s companion`` because it could function like brass knuckles on burglars, intruders and mashers."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WILLIAM H. THAYER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.</span></div>
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<b>UNIVERSAL TOOL.</b></div>
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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,893, dated May 24, 1881. Application filed December 22, 1880. (No model.)</div>
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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY THAYER, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain improvements in Universal Tools, of which the following is a specification.</div>
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My invention relates to implements for handling stove-lids, pots, dishes, and kitchen utensils generally, the device being also adapted for use as a support for flat irons, coffee-pots, 850., and as a meat-tenderer.</div>
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The invention consists in a circular bail or handle having parallel flat faces and furnished with various hooks and projections and with finger-holes, as hereinafter described.</div>
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In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a face elevation of my improved device, and the remaining figures represent the same applied to some of its uses.</div>
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The object of my invention is to produce a simple, cheap, and efficient implement for kitchen use, by which the various utensils therein employed may be readily lifted,carried, and manipulated as desired, and which shall be otherwise useful. To this end I produce, by casting or otherwise, the device more clearly represented in Fig. 1, consisting of a circular bail or hand-piece, A, provided with a hole or holes, a, to receive one or more fingers of the user, and provided also with hooks and projections, which I will proceed to describe, first calling attention, however, to the fact that owing to the bail form of the implement the weight of any article lifted by it is brought very close to or directly under the hand, where it may be sustained to the greatest advantage, instead of being received at the outer extremity of the hand-piece, as usual.</div>
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Referring now to the drawings, A represents the circular bail or handle, provided preferably with two holes,a, into one or the other of which the forefinger is inserted, according to the particular use to which the implement is applied, and further provided with a horn, B, of proper length and form for lifting stove-lids, as in Fig. 3. Above the horn B and inward from the end there of is formed 2. lug or projection, G, which, in connection with the horn B, serves the purpose of lifting pie-plates and similar shallow dishes, the horn being first passed under the plate and the lug G then raised and hooked over its upper edge, as shown in Fig. 2.</div>
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To adapt the implement to the carrying of pots, kettles, and similar vessels, a hook, D, is formed on the'under side thereof, midway between the finger-holes a or at such point that the weight shall fall directly beneath the hand in which the bail or handle A is held. Directly above the nose of book D there is formed a projection, E, sufficient space being left between the two to admit the bail or handle of a tea-kettle or like utensil. The bail or handle of said utensil being passed into the space between the hook D and projection E, the boil or handle A, which stands at right angles to that of the kettle, is tipped laterally or in the direction of the length of the kettle bail, thereby cramping the latter and forming a convenient means of tipping the kettle for pouring its contents or for other purposes. For the purpose of tipping pots and similar vessels a hook, F, extends outward from the opposite side of the implement from that at which the horn B is located, and in the reverse direction, and above said hook is formed a shoulder, b. By engaging the hook F over the edge of the vessel, as shown in Fig. 3, and tipping the implement forward, the latter is caused to take hold firmly upon the vessel, which may be tipped thereby as desired. In a similar manner the nose of hook D and the rear side of hook F may be employed for lifting and carrying an ash-pan, while for carrying pudding-dishes and the like a second hook, G, is formed directly beneath hook D to engage over the inner edge of the vessel, while the under side of book F bears against the outside.</div>
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H represents a series of teeth or studs formed upon one side of the bail or handle A, and serving the office of a meat-tenderer.</div>
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The faces of the implement being flat and parallel, it will be seen that it may be used as a flat-iron stand, as in Fig. 5, or as a support for tea or coffee pots, or for analogous purposes.</div>
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By providing the implement with the finger holes a the user is enabled to hold it in any position desired without danger of slipping or turning in the hand.</div>
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It is apparent that some of the hooks may be used independently of others, and that the tted if desired. met the device teeth or studs H may be omi It is however preferred to consist lifter having a straight its bail has been tly below the hail 1 am aware that a wooden handle applied to with a hook directly that a spring-wire plate-lifter finger-holes.</div>
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1 my device a circular bail is meting any one of the several hooks to be brought finger being passed through - hole to bring such horn sired position. M<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">y invention for kitchen use, a circle two or more hooks or kitchen utensils, the up; the implement to hang" naturally and easily in the hand in using each of the several hooks or horns.</span></div>
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4. A curved or bail shaped implement for handling kitchen utensils having parallel flat faces, as described, whereby it is adapted for 3 5 use as a stand for flat-irons and other utensils.</div>
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cowboysandchuckwagoncookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10874118941778139191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294583146418243340.post-6984952557828625332014-05-27T19:41:00.005-05:002019-05-20T17:33:29.025-05:00Wagons for Warrior's<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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As Old Glory flew proudly throughout the Memorial Day weekend as our nation remembers our fallen hero's, we honor them for <span class="highlightNode">their contribution for freedom. Memorial Day</span>, formerly known as Decoration Day originated after the American
Civil War to commemorate the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in
the War. By the 20th century, <span class="highlightNode">Memorial Day</span>
had been extended to honor all Americans who have died while in the
military service and what greater way to honor our WOUNDED WARRIORS than
hol<span class="text_exposed_show">d an event on <span class="highlightNode">MEMORIAL DAY</span> WEEK-END.</span><br />
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Wagon for Warriors, was a dream, a wish, and then a mission.
Organizer, Steve Hull is a chuck wagon cook who also is a "Vietnam-era
US Navy veteran." After his hitch in the Navy, he was employed with the
Department of Defense for 32 years. His wife Cheryl also worked for the
Department of Defense for 35 <br />
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years before both retired.<br />
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"My first chance to help work with the "Wounded Warriors" came when
life long friend, Mitch Morgan,(also a Vietnam Veteran) and I were asked
to volunteer our chuckwagon cooking in San Antonio, Texas" states
Steve. This was to help feed the Wounded Warriors at Fort Sam Houston,
through the U. S. Army Medical Command. The program called "Cowboys for
Warriors" was set up by Arb Lenamon, who is a member of the (ACWA)
American Chuck Wagon Association and also a chuck wagon cook from
Victoria, Texas. The western day-long event provided food, cowboy
entertainment and music for the many wounded service members of the
Armed Forces and their families. What a humbling experience," stated
Steve Hull. He further went on to explain, "We can never do enough to
support or pay back the debt we owe to our Military personnel who make
whole sacrifices defending our freedoms. This is when the idea of
holding an event in Missouri came to mind."<br />
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Fred Bloch of the Windover Ranch drove his chuck wagon team into
Lebanon, Missouri in grand style. In case the natives got restless, his
wagon team included outriders bringing up the rear. Fred's chuck wagon
joined 12 others at the Kenneth E. Cowan Civic Center Friday afternoon,
setting up for the fourth annual Wagons For Warriors event held over the
2014 memorial day weekend. <br />
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Thirteen authentic chuck wagons from five different states rolled
into Lebanon, Missouri rustling up vittles for a crowd of nearly 2,000
all to benefit Mid Missouri Chapter of the Association of the United
States Army (AUSA) Fort Leonard Wood Wounded Warrior Fund. Last year,
Wagons For Warriors was able to donate nearly $10,000 to the fund and
the event's main sponsors are the Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce and
the Friends of the Fort.<br />
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Each chuckwagon team prepare special entrees to go along with the
traditional cowboy flare of beans, potatoes, bread and cobblers. Wood
burning fires filled the air with an aroma of true cowboy cooking as
cooks work special dishes cooking of cast iron skillets and dutch ovens.
Just before noon, each chuckwagon camp had sizzle up the savoring meals
for a hungry crowd. Tickets were sold for the meal at $10 each <br />
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the Chamber of Commerce, Mid Missouri Credit Union, Hairy's Salon,
Heritage Bank of the Ozarks, Mid Missouri Bank and, in St. Robert, Jones
Investment Group. Proceeds were donated towards the Wounded Warriors
Program.<br />
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The event was ready to tackle what ever kind of weather was thrown
their way including early morning rain. The chuckwagon cooks began
preparing the days meal starting at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
Entertainment kicked off by 10 a.m., and lunch was served to the hungry
crowd starting at 11:30 a.m. Patrons don their cowboy hats and boots as
families and military veterans got into the spirit of the event.<br />
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On the menu at the various wagons was chuck wagon style dishes,
tablitas, fajitas, chicken-fried steak, beef and home-made noodles,
smothered steak and even hot dogs for the younger buckaroos who prefer
more modern fare. There was also succotash, beef tips and rice.<br />
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Randy "Big Boy" Dyer traveled from Clay City, Indiana to be part of
the Memorial Day weekend event. He purchased the wagon from the
granddaughter of it's original owners. Adding the chuck box, Randy
fully restored the Huntingburg wagon converting it into a working
chuckwagon. Competing in Texas, Georgia, Minnesota, Tennessee and
performing many demonstrations across the nation, Randy stated this is
his favorite event, working the annual "wagon for Warriors" benefit.
Randy, also is a Vietnam veteran, who understands the importance an
appreciates the opportunity to help support those who serve our nation.
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Rick Smith, a retired Texas Department of Public Safety Officer and
today owner of the Double R Reindeer Ranch in Midlothian, Texas traveled
to Lebanon joining chuckwagon partner, Major General Tod Bunting, from
Kansas who was the Adjutant General of Kansas retiring in 2011 and
currently the CEO at Center for American Values.<br />
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Out Yonder Wagon owned by Gary Pool from Weatherford, Texas was
sponsored locally by Shadel's Colonial Chapel of Lebanon. Gary was
assisted by Vicky Raymond working off the original 1870's Bain
manufactured wagon.<br />
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Glenn & Jennifer Raef are natives of Lebanon, Missouri operating
the Rafter R Chuckwagon. Glenn converted a 1920 era Springfield
Manufacture wagon into the chuck wagon where the couple has perform
cowboy catering and chuck wagon cooking competitions. They were
sponsored by Missouri State Representative Sandy Crawford, R-129th
District.<br />
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Deep Fork Cattle Company chuck wagon from Chandler, Oklahoma was
sponsored by Shianne's Truck Repair. Owners David and Sheryl Roberts
restored the late 1800's Newton manufactured wagon and provide Cowboy
Christian Ministries when not assisting in events such as the Wagon for
Warriors.<br />
Buster and Diane McSparran of the Goode Ranch chuckwagon, from Hamilton, Texas was sponsored locally by Missouri Eagle.<br />
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Traveling from deep south Texas was the ELLIS CATTLE COMPANY, owned
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of Papalote, Texas. Charlie's wagon is a
converted turn of the century 1900 John Deere Wagon. His wagon also has a
front storage in addition to the the chuck box and boot that folds down
for easy access. <br />
Dennis and Donna Williams from Neosho, Missouri own and operate the
Circle Double D Chuckwagon which they restored from a 1900 Springfield
manufactured farm wagon. They often perform catering creating an
authentic cowboy atmosphere with their chuckwagon and have traveled
throughout the mid-west, Texas, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Illinois
providing traditional cowboy meals while exhibiting the wild west and
cow camps of the cattle drive era.<br />
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Todd Lowrance and Ed Kapelski, took some time to relax under a
shelter at the J.L. Cattle Company's chuck wagon, sponsored by
Independent Stave Co. The chuck wagon is owned and operated by Jeff and
Liz Jenkins of Lebanon. Jeff purchased the Studebaker wagon last year as
it sat as a pile of rubbish. Replacing every rotted board and reusing
the hardware, Jeff brought the wagon back to life and in mint <br />
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His wagon recently won best wagon during a chuckwagon cooking
competition held in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee last February.<br />
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Event planner and host, Steve Hull with Mitch Morgan of the "Still
Hangin" chuckwagon team also cooked from their restored wagon built in
the late 1800's by (BMC) Brown Manufacturing Corporation. BMC was formed
in 1879 constructing plows and other agricultural farm implements in
Zanesville, Ohio.<br />
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At the end of the exhausting day, wagon teams began cleaning up and
packing their gear away. Each proud to say they took part making their
contribution by volunteering for the Memorial Day weekend event that
raised funds to support many local military members who had been injured
in the line of duty. For information about supporting the Wagon for
Warriors, contact Steve Hull at <a href="mailto:stillhangin1@gmail.com">stillhangin1@gmail.com</a> or visit his web site at <a href="http://www.stillhangin.com/" title="http://www.stillhangin.com/">http://www.stillhangin.com/</a><br />
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cowboysandchuckwagoncookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10874118941778139191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294583146418243340.post-4450219884092901362014-01-16T20:22:00.002-06:002018-07-29T15:47:35.258-05:00The Centennial Wagon<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Centennial Wagon Southwestern Exposition and Livestock
Show</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the banks of Marine Creek, Fort Worth held their first Stock Show in March 1896. That following October, they conducted a second show to coincide with the National Livestock
Exchange Convention meeting. The opening ceremonies kicked off on October 12, 1896 with the first Stock Show Parade. Much has change and grown through the years becoming one of the most respected Stock Show and Rodeo's in the world. To commemorate the centennial in 1996, W.R. "Bob" Watt, Jr who was President and General Manager of the Stock Show wanted to add something special. A way to share thanks to the many contributors who have over the years supported the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock
Show.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Stock Show was Bob's life. A native of Fort Worth, he grew up at the stock show. His father was the President of the Show from 1946 until his death in 1977. After Bob graduated from college receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Husbandry from Oklahoma
A & M, now known as Oklahoma State University, he began working the show. While his father </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>W.R. "Bob" Watt, Jr</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">remained President of the show, the younger Bob became Secretary and General Manager in 1973. He assumed the office of President and General Manager
in 1978 learning everything about operating a successful show from his father as he followed in his dad's foot steps. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To commemorate the centennial celebration, Bob knew he needed something very special. Something that would reflect on all those supporters who through the years help make Fort Worth the Cowtown it is today marketing Rodeo at its best. That's when Bob contacted Kevin Baker of <a href="http://heritagewoodcarving.com/">Heritage Woodcarving</a> with the task. After some initial ideas, Kevin was commission to carve a special wagon to commemorate the centennial.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kevin, who founded Heritage Woodcarving, knew this would not be an easy endeavor. Kevin has produced some of the most phenomenal architectural elements crafting sophisticated mantles, staircases, ornate wall panels and furniture. Today, with over 39 years of experience, he took the opportunity to study wood design in Rome, Paris and London returning to Texas with the skills of the intricate European art as he mastered complex cuts where Heritage Wood Carving prides itself on extraordinary designs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Starting with <span class="yiv0919628842null" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1382917108869_2327">photos taken from Exchange Street, home to the Fort Worth Stockyards, Kevin began with photographs of the many long time businesses which have sponsored and supported the stock show. As <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Kevin drafted many s</span>ketches from the photos, his ideas soon came together as if unlocking the cryptex of the Da Vinci Code. Soon he had a 3D design of what best represent the centennial, Texas and the Southwestern
Exposition and Livestock
Show. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This one item that seem to best display the west, traced towards the horse drawn wagon. It moved early pioneers across the plains, it carried needed supplies as teamsters moved freight and provided escort to the early soldiers as they protected the new frontier. Even the cowboys driving their herd found the chuck wagon as home on the range. Like the Stock Show and Rodeo, the wagon truly is an exceptional piece of history. Deciding a wagon could billboard the many businesses, his next step was to locate a wagon to start with. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Deciding to use the running gear of a Civil War Ammunition Wagon located in an old Fort in Wyoming, Kevin brought the piece to his shop where he began to completely dismantle each piece before restoration. The wheels were sent out to an Amish farm to be fully refurbished. Using the finest oak and walnut woods, Kevin began crafting his talent carving the side boards. Using his CNC machine to rough cut the designs on the boarding, each piece and area would be finished by hand. The wagon carriage was built getting new bolsters which would soon house the wagon box. Hand forging all the iron works to assemble the side boards, flooring, bolsters and box, the wagon began to take shape. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After an arduous six months of hand crafting the wagon boards going far from fundamental woodwork, Kevin's master piece of bolection accents and master jointing came to completion. Standing 8 feet tall at the wagon's highest point, 12 feet long and nearly 6 feet wide, the 2,300 pound creation was ready to represent the grand centennial. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Centennial Wagon was on exhibit commemorating the 1996 Southwestern Exposition and Livestock
Show before being donated to the <a href="http://www.cowgirl.net/" target="_blank">National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame</a> located at 1720 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, Texas where the wagon is currently displayed. A true master piece, created and built by master woodcarver Kevin Baker of Weatherford, Texas. Bob Watt Jr retired as President of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo in 2010 with over 40 years of dedicated service. </span></span><br />
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cowboysandchuckwagoncookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10874118941778139191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294583146418243340.post-8883187941842298702013-12-08T14:23:00.005-06:002013-12-08T17:55:59.190-06:00"Coffee with Fred" A Cowboy's reflection of Pearl Harbor<span class="paragraph-0">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fred Arnold</b></span></td></tr>
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It was a mid-December morning in 1986 when I had my first cup of coffee with
Fred. Over the course of the next decade, sharing a cup of coffee became a routine where I grew to admire the man as I listen to his life stories.<br />
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Fred operated a grade "A" dairy named Rainbow Falls which sat west of Chehalis, Washington. His beautiful lush pastures nested along some of the oldest growth trees of the Pacific northwest. <br />
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As I sat at the kitchen table, the heat radiated from the rich brew. I stirred in some cream and sugar, when Fred question me, "So you don't
drink your coffee like a sailor." Sailors and cowboys both seem to appreciate strong black coffee and Fred had been both, Cowboy and Sailor. He had served as a
Boatswain Mate Petty Officer who survived Pearl Harbor. I too, a
Boatswain, was currently serving in the Navy in transit moving from Austin, Texas where I
had been on a recruiting assignment. Stopping at Fred Arnold's
home before reaching Federal Way, Washington would forever be in my
thoughts.<br />
The drive had been long and non stop. Oddly, crossing west Texas, I
was hit with snow that I did not expect in the early part of the drive.
Although the roads cleared by the time I reached Arizona. Still having too travel through Mt Shasta, California and over Grants Pass, Oregon before reaching Washington, I expected more snow. However, the roads remained clear
with the exception of early morning fog.<br />
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Tired from the long drive with the numerous hours seeing merely
white lines as they marked the highway, the fresh coffee was revamping
my mind. Fred was interested in my Navy adventures wanting to know
more about all the places I had traveled too when I had been assigned
aboard ship. He shared his stories that I enjoyed hearing as we related
our Navy experiences. He always said, I seemed to have had better duty
assignments. Perhaps so.<br />
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Each morning at Fred's started with coffee that had to be specially
perked. No instant or drip coffee was acceptable for Fred. He like his
old percolator and I must confess, it did brew a great cup of coffee
too. Each time as I added my cream and sugar, I just knew he thought I
was destroying the perfect blend. Fred didn't take his coffee all
sissified and other than his one time comment to me about Navy coffee,
he merely watched as I stirred the cream and sugar in circling the
spoon. Despite the way I took my coffee, we seemed to enjoy our endless
conversations at the kitchen table. Every time, I seem to learned
something new, either about Fred's life, the working cowboy managing his dairy operations or just shared "sea stories" as old sailors would call them. Fred was a Pearl Harbor survivor who had fought in 23 battles between World War II and being recalled during the Korean War. Unlike the cold war of the time, Fred saw a great deal of action and able to come home when the wars came to an end.<br />
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Some might have thought of Fred as a hard man. I found him polite
and friendly. Although like most cowboys, he tested a man before
placing his full trust in anyone. He had accomplished a great deal
through the years and had much to be proud of. Although, Fred never
boasted on his accomplishments, but did share a special pride about
each of his children and his lovely wife, Alice. Perhaps Fred spared
me from most of the test of trust as we both share that one common
denominator, We both served in the Navy. Although so many years apart, he seem to relive the moments each time we sat together over those many cups of coffee. Each time, I learned something new and over the years, it seemed he knew which stories he had shared and which he had yet to tell, never repeating any of them. <br />
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Over the next several years, special holidays like Thanksgiving or
Christmas, I was always invited to come visit. Living the big city life
of the Seattle area, it was always a great feeling and blessing to get back to the
country. There was no congested traffic like that of the commuters
driving the S-turns nor an hour backup between Tacoma and Seattle along interstate 5. Rainbow Falls Dairy always provided a place of
serenity. It's large pastures along the Chehalis River bordered the southern portion of the property. The Willapa Hills Trail bordered
along the north end of the pastures with Leudinghaus Road cutting
through the center. Fred's home sat on the north side of the road and the
barn across the other. Just down the road, the State of Washington built Rainbow Falls Park amongst the towering evergreens and my visits to Fred's was always a joyful gathering with him and his family. Each filled with more stories shared while having our morning coffee.<br />
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Fred, born November 30th, 1923 was three years younger than my dad.
His parents, George and Madge Arnold lived in Meeker, Colorado and
survived tough times as our nation was in an economic depression. Jobs
were hard to come by and young men assisted their families, as much, so
did Fred. In 1940, at the age of 17, Fred enlisted into the United
States Navy. Unknowing the years to come, he was assigned to the heavy
cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-37) as a seaman.<br />
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The following year, December 7th, 1941, the USS Minneapolis, assigned for gunnery practice was at sea 20
miles outside Pearl Harbor. Sunday
mornings were normally quiet at sea allowing the sailors holiday routine. At
0600, the boatswain mate of the watch piped down the whistle call,
"Attention, All-hands" then announced over the 1MC speakers, "Reveille,
Reveille. All hands heave out and trice up. The smoking lamp is
lite." Unaware that the Minesweeper USS Condor believed to have
spotted a submarine at 0342 that would be later be sunk by the USS Ward
at 0653. Communications would be slow directing military forces on the
attack which would commenced at 0755.<br />
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On duty at the command center of Ford Island, Commander Logan C. Ramsey sighted a Japanese aircraft. At first, he believe it was just a reckless
pilot until he saw something drop. Upon it's explosion, he realized it
was an attack and quickly ran to the radio room ordering the telegraph
operators to send out an uncoded message, (AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT A DRILL.)<br />
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The Japanese forces had hope to catch the US Naval
aircraft carriers in port. Like USS Minneapolis, many of the naval
forces were deployed at sea for forth coming exercises. Vice Admiral William Halsey, Jr.'s aircraft carrier
task force was at sea dashing to reinforce Wake Island's Marine
detachment with additional fighters. He could not afford to have the
slower battle ships escort his fast carriers so all the battle ships
remained in port at Pearl Harbor. The crew aboard Minneapolis had
finished eating breakfast before word came of the attack. As general
quarters was called, she immediately took up patrol turning towards
Pearl Harbor. <br />
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A radar operator spotted a large group of unidentified aircraft
flying toward the naval port. Part of the United States plan was to
build up forces in the Pacific. 12 B-17 Flying Fortresses were in route
to the Philippines with a stop in Oahu. Due to their flight schedule, a
communications officer assumed what in fact were Japanese fighter
aircraft as the B-17 aircraft a failed to sound any alarms. The B-17
aircraft, unaware of the morning attack prepare to land. To save fuel,
the planes were unarmed finding their self dodging Japanese fighters and
U.S. antiaircraft gunfire as they approached. Most manage to land
intact with one aircraft landing on a golf course.<br />
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At 0800, an armor-piercing bomb, dropped by a bomber, penetrates the forward deck of the USS Arizona, setting off more than a million pounds of gunpowder, creating a huge fireball, and killing 1,177 men. Witnesses say the ship came completely out of the water before breaking in two and sinking with in nine minutes.<br />
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Several ships would manage to light up their boilers in the
engine room which provides as a power plant. Once reaching enough
steam, they quickly cast off all mooring lines as they rushed to fight
in the open seas. USS Helm (DD-388) en route to deperming buoys, when
Japanese carrier planes attacked the naval base was the only ship under
way at the time of the attack. The destroyer manned her guns and
brought down at least one of the attackers while she was strafed and
slightly damaged by two bombs close aboard. <br />
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Navigating through the
flames and smoke, Helm spots a Japanese two man mini-sub that had
snagged upon the shoreline reefs. The captain of the Helm orders "Right
Hard Rudder" turning the ship towards the sub and fires her guns. The
sub manages to break away submerging as it tries to escape. Helm fires
again, this time sinking the sub as one crew member drowns while the
other, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki washed ashore. The following day, he was
found and taken capture becoming the first Japanese prisoner of war. <br />
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The USS Monaghan (DD-354) a Farragut Class Destroyer had opened
fire on the enemy aircraft and by 0827 was underway to join Ward when
notified of the presence of a Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine in the
harbor. Monaghan headed for the sub ramming it, then sank it with
two depth charges. She headed on out of the harbor to patrol offshore
for the next week, joining the Minneapolis and aircraft carrier
Lexington in the attempt to relieve the doomed Wake Island.<br />
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The USS Nevada (BB-36) had her full crew aboard with the band playing
'Morning Colors' as the enemy aircraft approached Pearl Harbor. Unlike
the other battleships, Nevada was able to release her mooring lines and
maneuver the ship channel. Japanese planes of the second wave bomb
her, hoping that by sinking her in the narrow channel she will block
the remaining fleet from passing through the channel. Taking several
hits and listing over, the Nevada quickly floods another compartment to
stabilize. Rather than risk being sunk in the channel, she
deliberately grounds herself off Hospital Point.<br />
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The first wave of aircraft consisting of 49 high-altitude bombers,
51 dive-bombers, 40 torpedo planes, and 43 fighters completed their
mission. The second wave consisting of 35 fighter planes, 78
dive-bombers, and 54 high-altitude bombers meets heavy antiaircraft
fire. As bombers attack the navy dry dock yard, the battleship USS
Pennsylvania is hit. Another bomber hits the oil tanks between the
destoryers USS Cassin and USS Downes. As ammunition store aboard ship
explodes, the Cassin rolls off the ship yard blocks falling into
Downes. Naval cruiser USS Ralieh, is hit by a different bomber after
being hit by a torpedo during the first wave. In order to keep her from
capsizing, crew members jettison any gear not bolted down. Another
bomber hits the destoryer USS Shaw blowing the complete bow off the
ship. Pieces of scrap metal from her bow rain down half a mile away.<br />
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In just under two hours, the Japanese had sunk four U.S. battleships (<i>Arizona, California, Oklahoma,</i> and <i>West Virginia</i>).
Also damaged were three light cruisers, four destroyers, one
minelayer, one target ship, and four auxiliaries. Of the U.S. aircraft,
the Japanese managed to destroy 188 and damage an additional 159.<br />
The death toll among Americans was quite high. A total of 2,335
servicemen were killed and 1,143 were wounded. Sixty-eight civilians
were also killed and 35 were wounded. Nearly half of the servicemen that
were killed were on board the <i>Arizona</i> when it exploded.<br />
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Intensive salvage operations continued for another year, a total of
some 20,000 man-hours under water. Every ship that was damage or sunk
return to service except the Oklahoma, Utah and Arizona. While the <i>Oklahoma was </i>successfully raised, she capsized while in tow to the mainland in 1947. <i>Arizona</i> and the target ship <i>Utah</i>
were too heavily damaged for salvage, though much of their armament and
equipment was removed and put to use aboard other vessels. Today, the
two hulls remain where they were sunk, with <i>Arizona</i> now at rest as a war memorial.<br />
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Citizens of the United States, would not know the details for the
weeks to come nor all the casualties. Fred's parents and sisters back
home state side, would read the newspapers for any reports and listen
to the radio. The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
addressed congress opening his speech: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a
date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was
suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the
Empire of Japan."<br />
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Fred's wife, Alice kindly poured me another cup of Joe as I listen to his stories and personal experience about that day he survive the attack on Pearl Harbor. The coffee always took off the chill on those fog covered or light drizzle mornings which today I so miss. I would learn a great deal about his Navy days, the many friends he made through those years and hear about the port of calls.<br />
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While Fred had many stories to tell, he also wanted to hear about my adventures. He always looked straight into my eyes giving me his full attention as if not to miss any details. Our stories became our morning routine as we sip our coffee.<br />
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The dairy farm was work every day of the week, weekends or holidays included. It was non-stop as the cows had to be milked twice each day. Alice with the help of their daughters always had the morning milking completed long before sunrise followed by the cleaning of all the equipment and barn. By 6:00 AM the morning chores were completed about the same time Fred and I began to have our coffee. After our morning coffee, I always looked forward to the opportunity of a
trail ride. Fred and Alica often stayed home taking care of any other chores from bottle feeding calves, moving hay or other things that had
to be done as the girls and I would saddle up.<br />
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Fred had three daughters living with him at this time. Amber being the oldest who still lived at home was just becoming a teen, Denise was a year or two younger and Theresa, who her dad always called tweeter was around six years old. Being so small at that time, she normally stayed home while Denise and Amber would go trail riding with me. Recalling the first time I went out on a trail ride with the girls, Fred sent Amber to
halter a horse in the field for me to ride. I don't believe the horse
could have been much more than green broke. Cinching the latigo tie
straps saddling the mare, I knew if she had been broke, that she had not been recently ridden. I mounted the horse and circled the mare several times to the left, then to the right as I was getting comfortable about how she will handle my commands. Fred soon saw that I could handle the horse or at least appeared to know what I was doing and stood back holding a big grin on his face. The horse was frisky and full of spirit. As we left the barn heading out, the horse tended to take the bit but a lite tug every so often kept her in line. While that ride was a great deal of work, it also was sincerely one of the best trail rides every.<br />
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We rode over to Rainbow Falls State Park then over some large hills into logging country. The trails were shadowed by the towering evergreens as we rode up on one hill, then down another. If was peaceful with only the sounds of nature, the movement of the horses hooves and the occasional horse snort. Crossing the river splashing through the water, we each lifted our boots from the stir-ups to ensure to not get them wet since it was early winter. Returning, we finally opened our reins as we approached the outer pasture. It felt great for the three of us to be at a run across the open fields. Then entering the pasture, we brought the horses to a walked allowing them to cool down. <br />
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Arriving back to the barn we brushed the horses down and I felt pretty good about the mare. She certainly could use some ground work but truly was a good horse. Fred came out from the house an asked, "So how was the ride?" I smiled and replied "It was great." By then, Fred felt much more comfortable about this Texan being more than just a pair of boots and a cowboy hat.<br />
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Months would pass before I was able to visit again. Each time we enjoyed our morning coffees and I would listen to Fred's stories and he always asked about my own. As a dairy farmer, Fred accepted a buy out offer from Dairy Gold, (Darigold) a co-op which each dairyman owned part of the business. Darigold had long been established in 1918 producing quality milk, butter, sour cream, cottage cheese and other
dairy products for institutions, the food industry and family dinner
tables around the world. Darigold milk tasted like milk should because it was flash-pasteurized. I would learn that this aided in maintaining all the flavor and lasting longer in the refrigerator.
It was also free of rBST growth hormones. The buy out was a way to control over production and provide retirements to the dairy farmers. To do so, Fred had to sell off his herd where they could no longer produce milk in the United States. His choice was either to sell too Canadian Dairymen or be sold for beef in the USA. Fred and Alice opt too sell to Canada.<br />
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Staying overnight, the cows were being picked up in the morning. I woke at 6:00 AM and the last truck loading the 450 head had just left. I could not believe I never herd a sound. Fred and Alice were both ready for coffee and our stories once more were shared. They gave more meaning to great Hollywood films about the Pacific War such as the 1970 film "TORA, TORA, TORA" or the 1976 classic "MIDWAY" starring John Wayne, <span class="st">Robert Ryan and Richard Burton</span>. After Fred's Naval Service ended, he moved to Montana where his uncle and Mother lived. Like myself feeling land under my sailor feet, Fred truly was recouping from the many battles he served in the Pacific during WWII.<br />
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He soon began working as a cowboy learning every facet of the industry. When not working cattle, he assisted with wheat farming. He also met his first wife in 1952 and they eventually moved to Bellingham, Washington where his first daughter, Chris was born. After some time, he took a job in Longview working at the pulp mill for Weyerhaeuser. He continued to farm and ranch on the side and purchased a small farm. Over the course of the next 16 years, Fred sold his first farm purchasing another and then decided it was time to sell again for something larger. Land and animals were always Fred's true passion. In 1967, Fred moved outside of Chehalis where he began building Rainbow Falls Dairy Farm.<br />
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Fred did not share all his life stories. Somethings in life is truly personal and no one's business but your own. I would never ask about some things but knew he had divorced after the lost of his two year old son named Ricky. It seemed that Fred had an emptiness that perhaps never healed but his life brighten when he met Alice who would become his second wife in 1975. <br />
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Alice truly assisted Fred in every aspect of operating the dairy and building the business. Many of the local boys would be hired on during the summer as they maintain the dairy. Alice and Fred also aided a few foster children and had their three daughters when I first met Fred.<br />
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Over the course of several more years, I had been transferred to Central America working with a Navy Special Boat Unit. One Christmas Holiday, I took leave to return to Washington state and visited Fred. He sure did not understand how I could be working in the jungles of central and south America and not on a Navy ship like his assignments during the second world war in the pacific, nor was I at liberty to discus everything either. Nevertheless, we enjoyed the coffee and never a moment I did not enjoy trail riding horseback in the Pacific Northwest.<br />
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That afternoon, I joined Amber and Denise where we rode along the timberline of a Weyerhaeuser logging lease. The girls had truly become superb equestrians thinking one day I just might read about them either reining in the nationals or professional barrel racing. As we rode again through the same hills we often enjoyed before, we heard a rifle shot in a distant direction. My first thought is possible deer hunting since they were in season. I also thought perhaps someone might be poaching since this was private timber lands. Telling the girls it might be best to ride down into the lower areas an off from the the high country, we heard several more shots. This sounded much more like target practice rather than hunting. As we came down along the trail we soon rode across three illegals who had come into the United States from Mexico looking for work. They had a 30-30 Winchester and a small camp nested in the woods living out of a car. "H<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="es"><span class="hps">ola mi</span> <span class="hps">amigo.</span> <span class="hps">¿qué estás haciendo</span><span class="">?</span></span>" I asked. One of the three men replied, "We are working loading timber trucks." I asked where they were from "<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="es"><span class="hps">¿De dónde eres</span><span class="">?" and the same man replied, "</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="es"><span class="hps">Somos de</span> <span class="hps">México</span> <span class="hps">meridional." Growing up in Texas I knew how to speak a little Tex-Mex but now serving in central America, I had a better grasp speaking Spanish. The three men had been target shooting some beer cans. They purchased a rifle because living in the woods was dangerous. They were afraid a bear or wolf might enter their camp. I asked if I could shot the rifle and the man graciously handed it over to me. It was brand new likely sold to them by who ever they had been employed by. I aim the rifle at one of several beer cans set out as targets and squeeze off knocking the can immediately over. Quickly working the lever action fired at the next can again hitting targeting and another. The three Mexican men eyes widen and one said, "</span></span>M<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="es"><span class="hps">uy buen</span> <span class="hps">tiro, </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="es"><span class="hps">muy buen</span> <span class="hps">tiro" meaning nice shooting. He then asked where I learn to shoot so well and I replied, "The U.S. Navy." "Ah, si...Ah si" one said. </span></span>As the girls and I began to ride off, we said good bye and be careful not to shot in our direction.<br />
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Later that day after arriving back at the dairy, Alice needed some items from the store. That always meant driving to town and visiting one of the local stores called YARD BIRDS. It seem to have grown from my previous visit and now had a full shopping mall. I could window shop for hours looking at everything from western wear to hardware. The store seem to have everything using a large black crow out front in the parking lot as a store mascot. It became a road side landmark. Like Fred surviving through the war, the explosive actions of Mount St. Helen which covered his farm in over a foot or two in volcanic ash, Yard Birds was a survivor too. The store had been completely flooded in 1990 but cleaned up and reopen.<br />
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Although while Fred now being retired from Dairy farming, he continue to run beef steers and it would again be a few years before my next visit. This time, we took a family trip to see Fred's sister's, Ellen Stubbs and Nancy Gregory who lived in Medford, Oregon. We spent the day driving south as we enjoyed the Washington and Oregon scenery on IH-5. It had been years since Fred ha d seen his sister's and the trip truly a pleasure. His daughters now getting older with boy friends and Amber soon to be getting married. Fred's family was becoming all grown up.<br />
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In 2004, Fred decided to sell the farm and move east over the mountain to Moxee, Washington to enjoy the comforts of more sunshine and less rain. Sunny days was another passion that Fred enjoyed and he always told folks he needed to move there because "It never rains in Yakima." <br />
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One day sipping coffee as I sat at my computer desk, I decided to look my dear coffee drinking friend up using the internet. I was quickly sadden to read his obituary seeing he had pass on <span class="paragraph0">September 17, 2011 at age 87 years of age. I quickly reflected our memories how he always loved animals and there always seem that Fred had his special dog. He was a member of the Washington dairy Association and the Fraternal Order of Eagles for over 25 years. He was also a member of the American Legion for 51 years. Fred had been survived by </span>his wife Alice, four daughters, Chris Hill, Amber
Lusk, Denise and Theresa Arnold, six grandchildren, Cyndi, Randy,
Ryley, Josey, Jessi and Rainey, four great-grandsons, Levi,
Jordon, Garret and Wyatt,<br />
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I was pleased to see his daughter's Amber and Denise competing in barrel racing with a few winnings and now raising families of their own. Tweeter had grown to become a white collar professional selling Real estate in Yakima. On cold light drizzle days, I am often reminded of that Washington winter weather where I enjoyed so many cups of warm coffee with Fred. Although, never does December 7th pass that I do not think about the unsung hero who survived the Attack of Pearl Harbor. A
date which will live in infamy. Fred Arnold was a true Cowboy, a dairyman and Navy hero. I will forever miss but always cherish, having coffee with Fred.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Wyoming is well known for Cowboys and rich with history. A mere 90 minutes north of Denver, Colorado is Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming. It's name brings forth the romantic images of the west; Cowboys, Rodeo, Railroads and majestic plains. Since 1897, Cheyenne Frontier Days host one of the greatest Rodeo attractions often termed, "The Daddy of the all." This year, 447
steers walked a three-mile course in unison from Hynds Boulevard into
Frontier Park to await the forthcoming events. Through the
years, Cheyenne continues to draw over 200,000 tourist to experience the cowboy life and see the exciting shows. Their slogan, "Cheyenne - Live the Legend." </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The legend begins long before the cowboys came to the frontier. The Crow, Shoshone, Cheyenne and Lakota, were but a few of the original inhabitants that Anglo explorers first encountered. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">John Colter, a member of the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition, was prohaps the first white American to enter the region in 1807. Colter, born in Virginia grew to become an avid hunter and mountain man. French-Canadian trappers ventured into the
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Yellowstone National Park. Colter as a guide for a newly form business, the Missouri Fur Trading Company ventured on his own with pack and rifle. It the spring of 1808, he return to Fort Raymond describing the thermal wonders of Yellowstone, though most were skeptical of his story and Yellowstone would be known as "Colter's Hell." Although while often believed Colter's stories to be myth, two expeditions and decades later, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Act of Dedication law that created Yellowstone as a National Park, the first in the nation and the beginnings of what would later become the National Park Service.</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The western frontier was attracting new migration of pioneers. Earlier on the mountain men who operated fur trade came to the territory. By 1836, settlers and wagon freighters cross the area as an early route of the Oregon Trail. Mormons began passing through Wyoming on their way to Utah and other pioneers followed seeking new lands, gold, silver and other opportunities. An estimate of 350,000 pioneers crossed the area from 1841 to 1860. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">C</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">lashes between the new pioneers and Native American Indians, the US Government established Forts to protect the emigrants. Fort Laramie originally an outpost to protect fur traders would house 350 soldiers by 1849. The need for beef to feed the Army and growing populations would motivate early trail drives to the area, though raising cattle locally would become profitable.</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seth
Ward, a sutler to Fort Laramie, left cattle out to graze the open range
in the winter of 1852-53 along Chugwater Creek north of what is now
Cheyenne. He expected to find carcasses in the spring. Yet when he
returned he found “the oxen,” as he called them, thriving. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The region had acquired the name <i>Wyoming</i> by 1865, when Representative J. M. Ashley of Ohio introduced a bill to Congress to provide a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming". The name Wyoming derives from the Munsee name <i>xwé:wamənk</i>, meaning "at the big river flat", but it was also named after the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, made famous by the 1809 poem <i>Gertrude of Wyoming</i> by Thomas Campbell.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"> </sup></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"> </sup></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming!</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall,</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring,</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of what thy gentle people did befall;</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sweet land! may I thy lost delights recall,</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore,</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's shore!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After the Union Pacific Railroad had reached the town of Cheyenne
in 1867, the region's population began to grow steadily, and the
federal government established the Wyoming Territory on July 25, 1868. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On December 10, 1869, territorial Governor John Allen Campbell extended the right to vote to women, making Wyoming the first territory and then U.S. state to grant suffrage to women. In addition, Wyoming was also a pioneer in welcoming women into politics. Women first served on juries in Wyoming (Laramie in 1870); Wyoming had the first female court bailiff Mary Atkinson, Laramie, in 1870); and the first female justice of the peace in the country Esther Hobart Morris, South Pass City, in 1870). Also, in 1924, Wyoming became the first state to elect a female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross,
who took office in January 1925. In fact, Wyoming and Texas both
elected female governors at the same time, but Wyoming's took office
sixteen days before Texas's.
Due to its civil-rights history, Wyoming's state nickname is "The
Equality State", and the official state motto is "Equal Rights."</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wyoming was the location of the Johnson County War of 1892, on which the controversial 1980 film <i>Heaven's Gate</i> was based, which erupted between competing groups of cattle ranchers. The passage of the federal Homestead Act led to an influx of small ranchers. A range war broke out when either or both of the groups chose violent conflict over commercial competition in the use of the public land.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Daddy of them all - The Cheyenne Frontier Days has</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> received the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association (PRCA) Large Outdoor Rodeo of the Year award for the
fourteenth time at a National Finals Rodeo award banquet held in Las
Vegas, Nevada. </span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">The Air Force performs their annual air show where the Thunderbird's
share a long history with Cheyenne Frontier Days. I</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">n 1947, while the jet age was still in its infancy, military
aviation was hurtled into the future with the creation of the U.S. Air
Force as a separate service. Just six years later, on May 25, 1953, the
Air Force’s official air demonstration team, designated the 3600th Air
Demonstration Unit, was activated at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The unit
adopted the name “Thunderbirds,” influenced in part by the strong
Native American culture and folklore from the southwestern United States
where Luke Air Force Base is located. That same year, they made the first public appearance at the Cheyenne Frontier Days. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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on July 30 at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Lane Frost after
completing a successful 91-point ride on a Brahma bull named "Taking
Care of Business", dismounted and landed in the dirt. The bull turned
and hit him in the side with his horn, breaking several of Frost's ribs.
Lane initially rose to his feet and yelling at Tuff Hedeman for help.
As he was running and signaling for help, Frost fell to the ground
causing the broken ribs to puncture his lungs and heart. Lane was rushed
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Free pancake breakfast held
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with nearly 40,000 people taking advantage
of this every year, volunteers serve over 100,000 pancakes along with
3,000 pounds of ham that is sponsored by the local Kiwanis chapter. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">The rodeo action is powerful in Cheyenne. Taylor Price won the Bareback Bronc with a scoring ride of 86 points. Wade Sundell who had a serious injury to his left foot last year scored a 90 point ride on the third go around winning the Saddle Bronc event. Will Scaffer would be this year Rookie having two great rides.</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Dru Melvin with a 5.9 second score on the first go around of Steer Wrestling along with contestants Bray Armes and Matt Mousseau both had great times in the first go around but could not maintain a winning average in the second and third run finding Pampa, Texas born Matt Reeves winning the event. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Mike Chase lasso over Bobby Harris and Trevor Brazile winning the Steer Roping event while contestants in the Senior Steer Roping found all but one performance having no time allowing Bobby Harris to easily win having three successful scores. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Teague, Texas cowboy Scott Kormos entered the final round in eighth place and still did not believe he had any chance of a victory win in the Tie-Down Roping Event, even after his 12.4 seconds run in front of a giant
crowd at the Frontier Park Arena. But combined with his other two runs,
the veteran tie-down roper had a three head average of 39.5 seconds that
held up and took first place by four-tenths of a second. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"> Jade Corkill from Fallon, Nevada partnered with</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"> Clay Tryan from Billings, Montana takes first with Team Roping. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">"In the sport of barrel racing we have so many variables that affect
the outcome of our success. Sometimes things don't go our way and it's easy
to lose sight of our dreams. Being positive and able to take the good
with the bad has been the key to my success. I don't have any special
talents or great barrel racing skills, I just always kept my dream in my
heart and never, never, never gave up," states Christy Loflin who took second place last year at the Cheyenne Frontier Day's Rodeo. Her perseverance paid off winning First this year. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Former Marine and rodeo performer, Wild Bill Williams who today is a football coach remembers a young skinny lad weighing 140 pounds and standing Five feet eight inches getting ready for high school rodeo. The left handed rider would go on to join the CBR, then entered the PBR earning Seven PBR World Finals Qualifications. Today, that young cowboy is Cody Whitney from Asher, Oklahoma and an inspiration to the sport of Bull Riding winning the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo with a purse of </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">$10918.93 </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-weight: normal;">However, the best part of the Cheyenne Frontier Days might just rest with the chuckwagon cooks, who like rodeo contestants, come from all across the nation to compete. One cook, </span>Randy Brown<span style="font-weight: normal;">
discovered chuck wagon cooking by just tagging along where he became
hooked after his weekend there. Before he left, he made arrangements to
buy a wagon and took it back to his home in Pennsylvania. Along with the
chuckwagon competitions, many youth show off
their cooking skills working off the chuck wagons. All part of living the legend. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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Seth
Ward, a sutler to Fort Laramie, left cattle out to graze the open range
in the winter of 1852-53 along Chugwater Creek north of what is now
Cheyenne. He expected to find carcasses in the spring. Yet when he
returned he found “the oxen,” as he called them, thriving. - See more
at:
http://www.wyohistory.org/essays/wyoming-cattle-boom#sthash.4avxJ4M8.dpuf</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377984267125_5056" style="line-height: 115%;">Wisps of
steam swirled out the spout of the ever present coffee pot hanging over the
coals as the cowboy passed out cups to early morning stragglers to sample the
brew. The sun just crested the trees and
the golden glow lit up the dozen chuck wagon camps as the cooking crews drifted
about…it was Cook Off Day at Cheyenne Frontier Days…and on this damp, cool
morning, the heat was on. Literally.</span></span></span></div>
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hours, the cooks would transform a standard issue of groceries into
mouthwatering chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, beans, biscuits, and cherry
cobbler vying for bragging rights of winning the “grand-daddy of ‘em all” – and
wearing that CFD Belt Buckle proudly home to one of the six states represented
at the 2013 event.</span></span></span></div>
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year, Cheyenne Frontier Days is one of the most coveted chuck wagon competitions
to participate in. Although chuck wagon
and Dutch oven cooking have been around for over 100 years, competitions were
sporadic, and there was not a home base for those interested in participating. More than a dozen years ago, a small group of
Old West enthusiasts and wagon masters talked about creating a chuck wagon association
that would preserve the heritage of the chuck wagon and its use in the short,
but significant, era of the cattle drives. The ACWA (<a href="http://americanchuckwagon.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://americanchuckwagon.org/</a>) was
born, and today, there are members in nearly every state, Canada, Germany and
Switzerland. Members participate in cook
off competitions, demonstrations, catering, charity events, school visits and
many other activities to fulfill that original mission and even surpass the
dreams of those organizers.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377984267125_5065" style="line-height: 115%;">Debbie
Watson gets the credit for bringing a chuck wagon competition to CFD…and Debbie
Russi has been assisting her in this monumental task for five years. They are part of the incredible volunteer
base of over 2500 individuals that bring CFD to life, as members of the 500+
strong, very busy, Parade Committee. A
dozen chuck wagons are invited to compete each year, and those wagons have the
option of re-upping for the following year – if they choose not to, a waiting
list exists of wagon owners who dream of an invitation to Cheyenne! </span></span></span></div>
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of creating and running my own chuck wagon events, I was invited to attend CFD
and help cook on the South Dakota “DT” chuck wagon. It was thrilling to meet the 2013 wagons - included the Pampa, TX “Honey-Do Spoiler”
wagon with Kevin Romine, Gerald Rasco, and Royce Henderson keeping the pots hot
with the help of three delightful grandsons, Gatlin, Drake and Tate…This
congenial crew kept the coffee on and invited us down for an incredible supper
after an unexpected July hailstorm had us ALL running for cover! Next in line was Jack Ramey’s “Crosstimber “
wagon from Mustang, OK. Jack cooked with
Todd and Heath Limke, and the fabulous ‘real’ American Icon of a cowboy, Eulan
E. Peters – better known as just “Pete”.
Despite tossing a mean snow-, I mean HAIL-, ball at our camp, Dan
MacCaffree and his “Musselshell” wagon cooked up some fine grub as well. Dan and his wife, Carol, along with Chris and
Julie Munson, hauled in from Round Up, Montana – my old stomping grounds! We have had the privilege of being around Dan
and Carol at several events these last few years, and a finer batch of folks
has not been created. Ned and Terry
Larson hauled their “Creekhouse” chuck wagon from Stevensville, MT and cooked
with Mike & Kathy Warren and Dennis & Julie Moffet…Frank and Georgianna
Lipus were our closest neighbors with their “Gold Creek” wagon from Hamilton,
MT. They cooked with the hilarious Mario
and Yvonne Torres whose name we could never keep straight. We had the privilege of cooking on the Number
ONE winning wagon at CFD – the Patrick’s “DT” wagon of Watertown, SD. Jim and Susan compete and show their beautifully
restored Peter Schuttler Wagon throughout the year. Jim claims “DT” stands for Dakota Territory,
but Susan insists it stands for Delerium Tremens – which is what all the wagon
cooks suffer from during a cook off! Go
figure. Donnie and Joe Daniels were our
other ‘neighbors’ with their “Running D” wagon from Harrison, AR. Donnie had an adorable short, two-man saw
that Mr. Patrick was seriously in love with.
Brenda Thomas cooked at their camp with them. The “(HO” owned by Cindy and Ray Gullion from
Worland, WY was next in line, with Heidi Hernandez and Charlotte Brown
assisting, and next to them was the 2012 Champions, the “Wishbone” wagon of
Axtell, TX. My two oldest sons, Clell
and Caleb, had the honor of participating in the 2012 Kid’s cook off with this
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championship, and wears his beautiful buckle
constantly. The Wishbone is owned by Brian
and Sue Frankum, and they cook with the Soupbone Cattle Company, Butch and Sue
Dohmann, also of TX. Dr. T.C. Glenn of
Arlington, TX owns the “Broken T” chuck wagon, and J. Aubry Lenamon from
Victoria slung pots for them. The “3LazyR”
wagon owned by Fred and June Woods of Pine Bluffs, WY cooked with Beth and
Kathy and the 2013 CFD Champions were the “Curly Cue” wagon owned by Clint
Combs of Las Vegas, NV. Clint’s sister,
Tina Stallard, of Albuquerque, NM and her family cooked on the wagon and
cleaned house in the food division.</span></span></span></div>
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Days is a week long chuck wagon cooking experience, with some amazing, historic
rodeo fun thrown in for good measure. It
would not be CFD if you did not attend one of the fabulous parades held every
other day, or the Pancake Feed offered a couple times a week – where else can
you eat pancakes where the batter is mixed in a CEMENT MIXER truck and flipped
off the griddle high thru the air by Rodeo Queens from across the country? I have to thank the delightful gate guards
who fitted me with a cowboy hat so that I could go behind the chutes daily to
enjoy some close up rodeo action. I will
also hand it to CFD – no other city gets behind an event and supports it as
thoroughly as Cheyenne believes in this rodeo week. Every business and the majority of the community
play a part in making this show work – especially since the approximately
60,000 population is inundated with over 500,000 visitors from around the world
who trek to this historic town not only to see history, but to be a part of
it. CFD (http://www.cfdrodeo.com/home) should
be on your bucket list…it truly is a once in a lifetime experience, but make
your reservations early, the hotels book quickly. While there, be sure to mosey by the chuck
wagons and have a cup of cowboy joe…and if you are lucky enough – be there on
sampling day – and you will know why chuck wagon cooking is more of a
historical passion than a passing hobby.</span></span></span></div>
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Thomas Watson cooking with Curly Cue, 2<sup>nd</sup> Jack Osborn cooking with
Honey Do Spoiler, 3<sup>rd</sup> Dillon Robertson cooking with Quarter Circle
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Troy Larson cooking with 3 Lazy R, 2<sup>nd</sup> Montana Robertson cooking
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wagon competing at CFD. The wagon judges were John Brewster, Don Shephard and
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Gold Creek, Frank & Georgianna Lipus, 2<sup>nd</sup> Curly Cue, Clint
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Uncle Fred’s Catering, 2<sup>nd</sup> Lazy Double L, 3<sup>rd</sup> Curly Cue</span></span></span></div>
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Honey Do Spoiler, Keven Romines, 2<sup>nd</sup> Curly Cue, 3<sup>rd</sup>
Crosstimber, Jack Ramey</span></span></span></div>
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Musselshell, Dan & Carol McCaffree, 2<sup>nd</sup> Curly Cue, 3<sup>rd</sup>
Quarter Circle HO, Ray & Cindy Gullion</span></span></span></div>
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Creekhouse, Ned & Terri Larson, 2<sup>nd</sup> Wishbone/Soupbone, Brian
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Surely a mouth full when one calls out this dessert dish of a grilled peach, but there is much more too this name that shares such a savory taste. Often around the chuck wagon, I like to do either a peach cobbler or a Peach dump cake for dessert because each is ever so pleasing to the <span class="st">palate. Although, for the 4th of July, I decided to be creative surpassing my normal traditions and give those taste buds something to remember. The answer, "The Tennessee Tipsy Texas Peach."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">What in the world is a<b> </b></span><span class="st"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Tennessee Tipsy Texas Peach</b></span>? Well, merely a Texas Peach grilled with Tennessee Bourbon of course. Recipe included below. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Texas more known for it's great western heritage, cowboys, oil production and the millions of Long Horn Cattle rounded up and herded north during the era of the trail drive, California, South Carolina and Georgia being the three largest producers of fresh peaches, Texas too, harvest over one million bushels each year and the Peach is the leading fruit crop for the Lone Star State. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Areas such as Stonewall, Frederickburg or Weatherford, Texas are well known for their peach production. Weatherford, a paramount of western history located in Parker County is the Peach Capital of the World named after state Representative Issac Parker, uncle to </span><span class="st">legendary Cynthia Ann Parker, a
little girl who was stolen from her home by Indians during the Texas
Revolution. Cynthia Ann grew up among the Comanche and become the mother
of the great Chief, Quanah Parker. Years later, when she was overtaken
in flight with an Indian raiding party, it was Isaac Parker who
recognized her as his long lost niece. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Legendary cattle drover Oliver Loving is buried here in
Weatherford’s Greenwood Cemetery. After being attacked by Indians in New
Mexico in 1867, Loving’s dying wish to his friend, Charles Goodnight,
was to be buried in his home, Parker County. Goodnight brought the body
back 600 miles by wagon for burial. If this story sounds familiar, it
should. It is the inspiration behind Texas author Larry McMurtry’s
novel,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <i>Lonesome Dove</i>.</span>
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="Chuckwagon" height="127" src="http://www.weatherford-chamber.com/images/Chuckwagon.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 15px;" width="178" />A
year earlier, Charles Goodnight had invented the first “chuck wagon”
which catered “fixings” for the cowboys on a cattle drive that would
later become known as the Goodnight-Loving Trail.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boze Ikard, who served with Goodnight and for whom the character
“Deets” was modeled, was also laid to rest in the Greenwood Cemetery.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now
known as the Cutting Horse Capital of the World, Weatherford is home to
hundreds of professional trainers, Hall-of-Fame horses and a
breathtaking, life-size bronze cutting horse. “Cutters” from all over
the country, send their horses here for training or breeding to the best
studs in the industry. Several National Cutting Horse Association
affiliates hold local competitions on a regular basis. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Although, while Texas too produces wonderful peaches, Georgia is well known as the Peach </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">state which is Georgia's state fruit and home to the Peach Blossom Trail. The city of Fort Valley, Georgia proudly proclaims to be "The Peach Capital of the World" hosting the annual Peach Festival held in June. Though neighboring state of South Carolina yields a larger production of peaches over the state of Georgia. Not too be out done, South Carolina rivals that they are the true Peach state as the Peach is also their official state fruit. Johnston, South Carolina also boast that they are the true "Peach Capital of the World" hosting the annual Peach Blossom Festival every April. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Regardless of the true Peach state or the Peach Capital of the World, The Tennessee Tipsy Texas Peach is sincerely a likable dessert that your guest will enjoy. Peaches, filled with vitamin A and C are a great source for dietary fiber, beta-carotene and potassium. Cholesterol, sodium and Fat free, peaches also contain antitoxins that help prevent cancer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Makes 8 normal Servings unless your feeding four cowboys with healthy appetites: <b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">4 large fresh peaches</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">2 tablespoons Honey</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">1 cup Tennessee bourbon (substitutes) Whiskey or Brady</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">1 tablespoon lemon juice (substitutes) orange juice or lime </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]"><b>Toppings:</b> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">Whip cream, vanilla ice cream, or sweet cream make excellent choices for topping this delicious treat. We used a sweet cream recipe as follows: </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">1/2 cup sour cream mixed with 2 teaspoons brown sugar, 1 teaspoon bourbon: mixed well and then chilled for two hours. Before adding on peaches, again stir well and top dessert. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">Directions:</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]"> </span></span></span><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]"> </span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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each Peach in half cutting from stem to tip between the cheeks of each fruit. Remove seed but do not peel or remove skin. In a colander, place each cut peach and lightly rinse clean. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">Place halves into a bowl or zip lock bag and add one cup of Tennessee Bourbon mixed with the citrus over the peaches and allow to marinade for at least two hours before cooking. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">Remove peaches from marinade, and pour remaining marinade juices into a small mixing bowl. Add brown sugar, honey and vanilla extract and stir until fully mixed. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0]"><span data-reactid=".r[6swp].[1]{comment632502363427988_104811735}.[2:0].[5:0:right].[4:1].[5:0:left].[2:1].[2:0].[2:0:2].[3:0].[4:0:0]">Place peaches, flesh side down on either your outdoor grill, cast iron griddle or griddle pan heated between 350 degrees (F) to 400. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When trying to name our recipe, "the Cowboy Peach." "the Texas Peach," "Hot and Peachy," "Not Your Momma's Peach," "No Ordinary Peach," it was friend Brent Bolton with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dutchmasters-Catering/115898271755149">Dutch-masters Catering</a> who believe something needed to say Tipsy. So, since the Bourbon is Tennessee, the peaches where Texas, we decided to call our dish, "The Tennessee Tipsy Texas Peach." Don't be afraid of adding different toppings to your liking be it adding some crunchy granola, more brown sugar, raspberries, blueberries or as I did, a single strawberry. </span></span><br />
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<span class="st"> </span>cowboysandchuckwagoncookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10874118941778139191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294583146418243340.post-26916455871029214702013-07-03T18:57:00.002-05:002013-07-03T18:57:47.494-05:00Celebration of a Great Nation<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">The
other day, I received an email from the American Chuck Wagon
Association that shared "The Pledge of Allegiance" as we approach the
4th of July celebration. While not all of our readers or friends are
Americans, I want to thank our allies who always helped to support our
liberties and freedom. I would like to extend some additional
information about the Pledge of Allegiance that was not shared in that
email, but I feel shares some value of interest. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">The original "Pledge of
Allegiance" was published in the September 8 issue of the popular
children's magazine The Youth's Companion as part of the National
Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th
anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. The
event was conceived and promoted by James B. Upham, a marketer for the
magazine, as a campaign to instill the idea of American nationalism by
selling flags to public schools and magazines to students.</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">According to
author Margarette S. Miller this was in line with Upham's vision which
he "would often say to his wife: 'Mary, if I can instill into the minds
of our American youth a love for their country and the principles on
which it was founded, and create in them an ambition to carry on with
the ideals which the early founders wrote into the Constitution, I shall
not have lived in vain. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">In America, we often believe of our democratic
democracy though the pledge was written by a Baptist minister an
Christian socialist named Francis Bellamy in 1892. Bellamy
(1855–1931), and Upham had lined up the National Education Association
to support the "Youth's Companion" as a sponsor of the Columbus Day
observance along with the use of the American flag. By June 29, 1892,
Bellamy and Upham had arranged for Congress and President Benjamin
Harrison to announce a proclamation making the public school flag
ceremony the center of the Columbus Day celebrations (this was issued as
Presidential Proclamation 335). Subsequently, the Pledge was first used
in public schools on October 12, 1892, during Columbus Day observances
organized to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">In Francis Bellamy's recollection of
the creation of the Pledge, he recalled "At the beginning of the
nineties patriotism and national feeling was at a low ebb. The patriotic
ardor of the Civil War was an old story...The time was ripe for a
reawakening of simple Americanism and the leaders in the new movement
rightly felt that patriotic education should begin in the public
schools." James Upham "felt that a flag should be on every schoolhouse",
so the publication "fostered a plan of selling flags to schools through
the children themselves at cost, which was so successful that 25,000
schools acquired flags in 1 year."</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">I too have lived in this country
during times of both great patriotism and during times of great lows
were brothers argue politics, religion among other things. However,
seeing much of the world, I have always viewed the United States as such
a great place and our flag has always provided me with comfort, hope
and pride. I have learned to love the world, to believe in "We the
people" and shall never forget our forefathers who built the foundation
of this great nation. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">In 1892, Bellamy wrote the pledge "I pledge
allegiance to my Flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Today, it has since
been changed, amended often with held with controversy or criticism.
However, regardless of what country one is born, we should be proud of
our land and set example world wide. For that, my homeland is America
and I now share my pledge, </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the
United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one
Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">God
Bless the USA and all of our friends world wide. May your 4th of July be
shared with world peace, wonderful outdoor cooking, family and friends and remember
all those around the world who have protected our freedoms in the past,
in present and in our future. Have a Happy 4th of July, as Americans
celebrate our Independence Day.</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"> Photos include John Boyd's chuckwagon top and Bill White's chuckwagon directly above:</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Omar Alvarez enjoys cooking whether it's a BBQ competition, Chili Cook-Off or just grilling at home. Although, several years ago, he discovered Dutch Oven cooking with the International Society of Dutch Ovens. His cooking passion lead him to become the International Dutch Oven Society (IDOS) <a href="http://cowboyandchuckwagoncooking.blogspot.com/2012/02/champion-of-dutch-oven.html">Grand Champion is 2008</a>. Cast iron skillets and dutch ovens was something he once grew up with as a child remembering the way his many relatives cooked out on the King Ranch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In 2012, he returned to visit his childhood stomping grounds of Kingvilles, Texas and join some new friends which gave him his first opportunity to cook working from a chuckwagon. His passion for cast iron dutch ovens extended further becoming hooked joining the cowboys he grew up with down in south Texas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When the opportunity to team up with a team competing in a Chuckwagon Cook Off held at Stevenville, Montana during the Western heritage Days on June 21st and 22nd, he jumped at the opportunity. Here's his story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being an established Dutch Oven cook when I saw a request
for volunteer help at a Chuckwagon cook-off by one of the Teams, I said I can
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
contacted Dan an Carol Chaffee of Montana and offered my help ,their reply
“Come on down!” We will use you ! Little did I know I was in for a great experience……Where
are the Briquettes? Where are the cooking tables? What’s that half cord of wood
for? What is that water trough doing here? As the saying goes “Live an Learn”</span></span></div>
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okay we are cooking over an open fire , and then using the embers from the fire
on the ground then setting the pots on top of the embers , hard to count embers
to get the right temperature (as I do with briquettes) oh, I see hold my hand
over the embers 2” above them , wow! That is hot! Yup, they are ready to cook
that 15lbs, of beef!! Give me that 14” pot, we will use that for the Cobbler
(same method used) Hand me that pot of Beans we soaked overnight. Yup that goes
on the ground as well on the hot embers, Omar grab that shovel and stir the
fire we need more hot embers for the Meat …………..and so it goes for a couple of
hours till the Judge walks by and says turn-ins in half an hour!! </span></span></div>
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where are those foam trays you gave me the one labeled Beans I want the one for
the Cornbread!!…….Okay all five trays are ready to take to the Judges Table
right over there, walk over person at the table says what do you want?? I am
here to give you our turn-in trays for the Judges, weird look on her face and say
“say what?” Not here buddy. ………Feeling bewildered, I look around and see teams
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what an event, but going back a little let me explain to get to this point. Potatoes needed peeling, dough had to be
prepped for the Cobbler, Cornbread had to be mixed from scratch, the Beans
soaked throughout the night and spiced up, then the Meat sliced up for our main
dish. Oh, and yes don’t forget washing
of the dishes, pots and utensils we used as we went along. Also grab the axe
and split up some of those logs and put them in the fire as we are getting low
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lot of help. Dan and Carol McCaffree, who own the 1895 Moline “Rocky Mountain
Special” known as the Musselshell Chuckwagon Team where assisted by friends Chris
& Julie, Carol’s three grandchildren and myself. It was a total team effort
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">The face book <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/202192249819741/?notif_t=group_r2j">Chuckwagon Cooking Group</a> is hosting a cornmeal recipe contest. Prizes will be awarded to the two best selected recipes by independent judging. (First place) will receive a
pair of Wild Rags by Ridin' Rank Wildrags of Beebe, Arkansas owned and
operated by <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1483941314&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A202192249819741%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/becky.boydswitzer?directed_target_id=202192249819741">Becky Boyd Switzer</a> and (second place) receives a cookbook donate by Dutch Oven Diva owned and operated by <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=536318122&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A202192249819741%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/lesley.tennessen?directed_target_id=202192249819741">Lesley Kershaw Tennessen</a>:
The contest runs from June 1st, 2013 to submit your entry, ending August 30th, 2013: Any entries submitted after August 30th of 2013 will not be accepted. Winners will be announced on Facebook and also here at Cowboys and Chuckwagon Cooking. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><b>Rules:</b> </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">1. Only one entry per person. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">2. Entry must be a recipe using cornmeal in any manner in which the entry has been cooked by the contestant. If
a person is under 18 years of age, the entry may be submitted by the
legal guardian/parent in care of the youths name indicating the recipe
is submitted legally in behalf of a minor child. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">3. The contestant must cook the item in cast iron cookware and are encourage to cook the dish outdoors just as the cooks along the cattle drives. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">4. The entry must include a photo of the item being cooked, and finish along with the recipe. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">5. Participation is open to all USA. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Good luck to all those submissions and again, thanks to Becky Switzer of Ridin Rank Wild Rags and Lesley Kershaw Tennessen for providing such wonderful prizes. About the prizes: </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Wild Rag like a bandana is a scarf worn around the neck of cowboys and cowgirls to protect them from the elements of weather. Warm during winter, protection against the sun, wind or dust, they have been designed both for work and fashion. </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wild rags come in a wide variety
of colors, sizes, and fabrics. Silk is a popular fabric choice because of its
light weight, softness, good looks, and other qualities but are also made in fabrics such as cotton. First place winner will receive a pair of wild rags, color, size and design will be by the choice of the provider sponsored by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RidinRankWildrags">Ridin rank Wild Rags</a>.</span></span></span></h5>
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Second place winner will receive the cook book, Field Guide to dutch Oven Cooking, from novice to champion. Written by the International Dutch Oven Society, the book is compiled with great recipes, many of which can be traced back to the
early settlers and cowboys who often cooked in Dutch ovens. There are
dishes to challenge the most experienced outdoor cooks as well as
tried-and-true recipes for folks preparing their first Dutch oven meal. Republished in 2002 by Lodge Manufacturing, this award is being sponsored by <a href="http://www.dutchovendiva.com/">Dutch Oven Diva</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>History of Corn: </b></span>As beef was a major staple in need to northern states following the civil war, cornmeal was a major staple feeding the cowboy along many of the cattle drives and early pioneers who headed out west. As the cattle drives where winding down by 1880, the United States grew over 62 million
acres of corn.<br />
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According too Lance Gibson and Garren Benson, Iowa State University,
Department of Agronomy, corn was the most important cultivated plant in ancient
times in America. Early North American expeditions show that the corn‑growing
area extended from southern North Dakota and both sides of the lower St.
Lawrence Valley southward to northern Argentina and Chile. It extended westward
to the middle of Kansas and Nebraska, and an important lobe of the Mexican area
extended northward to Arizona, New Mexico and southern Colorado. It was also an
important crop in the high valleys of the Andes in South America.<br />
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Although corn is indigenous to the western hemisphere, its
exact birthplace is far less certain. Archeological evidence of corn's early
presence in the western hemisphere was identified from corn pollen grain considered
to be 80,000 years old obtained from drill cores 200 feet below Mexico City.
Another archeological study of the bat caves in New Mexico revealed corncobs
that were 5,600 years old by radiocarbon determination. Most historians believe
corn was domesticated in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico. The original wild
form has long been extinct.<br />
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As Columbus landed on the small island of Cuba in 1492, his findings of this corp would be returned to Europe were it was soon recognized as a valuable food crop. It spread throughout France, Italy, and all of southeastern Europe and northern
Africa. By 1575, it was making its way into western China, the Philippines and the East Indies.<br />
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Although, as immigration flowed to north America, the crop was already popular among native American Indians who created a variety of dishes and means of preparing the corn from cooking it directly on the cob, to drying the kennels, removing and crushing into maze for making an array of bread type foods.<br />
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Today, corn often grown to fed livestock is also used to create cooking oils, corn sugars, bio fuels as well the many ways to use and cook corn for meals just as the early natives have done for thousands of years. As each entry is received, we will add the recipe and photos at Cowboys and Chuckwagon Cooking.<br />
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Slow simmer a pork roast until tender, reserving broth to cook
dumplings. You may also cook a pot of greens and use that broth to cook
the dumplings.<br /> <br /> Dumpling Recipe:<br /> 1 ½ Cups Yellow Cornmeal<br /> ½ Cup All Purpose Flour<br /> 1 tsp. Salt<br /> ¼ tsp. Ground Pepper<br /> Red Pepper Flakes (to taste)<br /> A small pan of Boiling Water <br /> <br />
Bring broth from roast or greens to a boil. Mix dry ingredients in a
bowl until combined. Add enough boiling water to bring the dough
together so that you have a moist dough that holds together. With wet
hands, scoop up enough dough to make a dumpling and pat it out into
small patty. Carefully drop the patties into the boiling broth and cook
at a slow boil for 20 minutes until done. The boiling water added to
the dry mix helps to cook the dumpling before adding it to the broth.
Wetting your hands helps to keep the dough from sticking to them as you
pat them out. They are quite warm after adding the boiling water.</span></span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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preheating, cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time mixing well,
add chilies , cheese, and can of creamed corn mix well. Sift
flour corn meal and baking powder together and add to corn mixture
blending well. Put in buttered cast iron pan, Bake at 325 for 1 hour or
untill a toothpick comes out clean.</span></span></span></span></span></span></h5>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note: I used 2 #6 skillets as some wanted Jalapenos and some didn't. Normally I would use a #12 cast iron Dutch Oven when camping or a #10 skillet. Cooking time will vary a little --just follow the toothpick method to ensure cornbread is baked through. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Entry by John Homrighausen or also spelled H'ausen of <a href="http://jbarh.com/a-refresher-in-history/">J Bar H Catering</a>. John is an amazing chef creating delicious meals servicing the Houston area residing in Cypress, Texas. His web page is filled with interesting stories, great food and a personality as grand as Texas. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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polenta is one of our favorites and works nicely with my Kinky
Friedmann Brisket. He doesn't know we call it that, but I am certain
he'd be proud of it. <br /> <br /> <b>JALAPEÑO CHEESE POLENTA</b></span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><b> </b><br /> Olive oil (to sauté)<br /> 2 cups chopped onions<br /> 1-2 jalapeños minced (to taste)<br /> 4 cups chicken stock<br /> 2 cups milk<br /> 1 tsp salt<br /> 1tsp coarse ground pepper<br /> 1/2 stick butter<br /> 1.5 cups coarse cornmeal<br /> 1 cup cheddar or pepperjack cheese<br /> <br />
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spreads out and starts looking wavy you are ready to cook. <br /> * Add the onions and peppers and sauté until the just start to take on a bit of color.<br /> * Add the stock, milk, salt & pepper & butter and bring to a boil.<br /> * Move the fryer off the heat a little until the liquid rolls down to a simmer<br /> * Whisk the cornmeal in gradually until it is all incorporated.<br />
* Once the cornmeal is incorporated, continue to stir slowly with a
wooden spoon until it begins to turn thick & creamy, about 10
minutes. (There has been much debate over whether or not the kind of
spoon makes a difference in the finished product and without a doubt,
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In a medium bowl, mix up the Cornbread batter according to the box
instructions, add in the Corn and 1 cup of the Cheddar and bacon.<br /> Fill each Jalapeno half with some batter! Eh-hem, don’t over fill them!<br /> Sprinkle them all with the remaining 1/2 cup of Cheddar.<br />
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Recently, I received an amazing cook book titled "Cow Camp Cookery", written by Dave McDowell. It is far more than just a collection of recipes. The content covers the customs, conventions and chow of the campfire crusader that will grip the interest of any reader. The pages are lined with stories, quick quotes, and pictures that kept me intrigued as I turned each page. This is the best put together cookbook that has come along in a long time that earns my highest recommendation and is a must read. <br />
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Dave McDowell has over 50 years of experience cooking outdoors in just about every environment. Today, as a historian and member of the American Chuck Wagon Association, he operates the Biscuits Flats Chuck Wagon team with cooking partner Kris Kircher. They cater and perform cowboy cooking demonstrations across the western United States. The team also professionally competes in Cooking Competitions earning many awards and championships. Additionally, he has been featured on PBS cooking show with Chef Todd English and seen on the Food Network demonstrating his honed skills of cow camp cooking. <br />
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Dave was raised along the Colorado mountain side, although as a teen, his family moved to Arizona. Enlisting <br />
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into the military, Dave was trained in outdoor cooking by the largest camping outfit in the world, the United States Army. He attended the Cooks and Bakers School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona developing his skills of culinary arts mastering cooking in any environment. After his enlistment in the US Army, Dave took his cooking and outdoor survival skills to the public teaching campers and back packers with an outdoor program entitled, "Know your Resources Workshop." Part of the course was the use of dutch oven cooking and the safe use of camp fires. <br />
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Although Dave's skills extend beyond culinary arts including the history and foods of the early pioneers. Though his vase research, he preserves the history of the west from early ranching, the cattle drives, camp recipes and chuck wagons. A volunteer with the <a href="http://www.chandleraz.gov/default.aspx?pageid=996">Chandler Museum</a>, he was instrumental creating the Chandler Chuck Wagon Cook-Off held annually in Chandler, Arizona. He truly is one of America's most knowledgeable individuals dealing with the history of the chuckwagon's and their use throughout the North American Ranches. <br />
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Today, Dave and his wife Lynda continue to make their home in Arizona living in Chandler and retreating to their mountain get away in Linden, Arizona. His book is a proven art of Dave's expertise in the field of Camp Cooking. A must have book for every enthusiast of the outdoors who enjoys camping, hiking or hunting where food is more than just a staple of one's appetite. "Cow Camp Cookery" can be ordered secured - on line through Paypal for $20.00 plus $3.50 shipping and handling using a major credit card at email biscuitflats@gmail.com or request mailing address for purchases using a check by mail.<br />
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John B. Stetson Company began in 1865 with a hundred dollar investment and has been devoted to producing some of the finest hats in the world. In a small rented room with the tools Stetson purchased along with $10 worth of fur, the Stetson Hat Company was born. A year later the "Hat of the West" or the now famous
"Boss of the Plains" hat was born and the name Stetson was on its way to
becoming the mark of quality, durability, innovation and beauty. <br />
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John's father, a master hatter, trained his son in the hat trade. There, he would applied his learned skills and
knowledge that built a legacy. Although, at the time of John's beginnings, most hatters were looked upon as unreliable. John B. Stetson changed that and built
one of America's most well-known and successful businesses. The
longevity and history of the John B. Stetson Company is based on
innovation and quality!<br />
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His first hat that became known as "Boss of the Plains" was a lightweight all-weather designed that met for the demands of the American west. It was intended to be durable, waterproof and elegant.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"></sup> This design, and the term "Stetson", eventually became all-but-interchangeable with what later became known as the cowboy hat. <br />
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At the turn of the 20th century, Stetson had over hundred different design hats for men and women. His hats grew so popular throughout the nation, he moved the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania location to St. Joseph, Missouri, with a second factory in Galveston, Texas. The Stetson hats would grow iconic being worn by celebrities such as Tom Mix, Gene Autry, John Wayne gracing the heads of America's most treasured Western heroes.<br />
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Although another hat design known as the "Open Road" had the classic rancher creased crown. The brim, unlike the wide brim of the Boss of the Plains had a shorter cut that bound the edge at a mere 2 3/4 inch. This shorter brim style hat grew popular often worn by the likes of many
celebrities and cowboy's as well. Cajun musician Amadé Ardoin wore the stylish
hat long before it became famous and renamed after President Johnson
often called the "LBJ Hat." Although, other Presidents of the United States often wore the same styled hat including President Truman and President Eisenhower who both were known to wear the similar
stylish fedora. <br />
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Today, both hats, the "Boss of the Plains" and the "Open Road" continue production where Stetson hat industry provided the reputation for quality that became the business creed for over 130 years and is <br />
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stamped inside each hat. The Stetson name and word quality became synonymous.<br />
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As a result, world wide, the mention of cowboy hat, often is mentioned as "Stetson" for their classic styling in the essence of the spirit of the
West and an icon of everyday American lifestyle. Today the Stetson hat factory located in Garland, Texas remains one of the largest
hat businesses in the country and produces a line of hats in hundreds of different
styles and colors. Stetson through its
authentic American heritage, remains part of the American history handcrafted and made in the U.S.A.<br />
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The 5th of May is the translation for the Spanish term "Cinco De Mayo" celebrated with a flare of Mexican foods, drinking beer and declaring victory throughout the United States and Mexico. Perhaps celebrated by as many Gringo's as those of Hispanic origin. Although, ask just about anyone what
the celebration is all about and likely you'll receive an answer with a misconception. Perhaps like Saint Patrick's Day, many seek the excuse to
celebrate with a few beers, though there is much to be proud about the date of May 5th, 1862. <br />
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The most incorrect reply I normally hear is Mexico's Independence
Day which is on the 16th of September when on that day in 1810, father Hidalgo,
accompanied by several conspirators rang the church bell of his little
mission calling for everyone to fight for liberty. This was the
beginning of the Independence War, which lasted 10 years before
defeating the Spanish rule for over 300 years.<br />
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The next misconception is "Viva la Revolution" and roots tying to José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, better known as Pancho Villa who was born on the 5th of June 1878 and lead an unsuccessful rebellion against the Mexican government as one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals from 1910 to 1920.
Villa acted as the commander of the <i>División del Norte</i> (Division of the North) along Texas and New Mexico borders where Villa and his supporters seized hacienda land for distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains. Villa's men and supporters became known as <i>Villistas</i> during the revolution from 1910 to roughly 1920 though his dominance in northern Mexico was broken in 1915 through a series of defeats. After Villa's famous raid on Columbus, New Mexico in 1916, U.S. Army General John J. Pershing tried unsuccessfully to capture Villa in a nine-month pursuit that ended when the United States entered into World War I and Pershing was assigned to lead the American Forces in Europe. Villa retired in 1920 and was given a
large estate which he turned into a "military colony" for his former
soldiers. In 1923, he decided to re-involve himself in Mexican politics
and as a result was assassinated – 20 July 1923. <br />
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Cinco De Mayo actually is to celebrate "The Battle De la Puebla"
where Mexico resisted invasion by France in 1862. Nevertheless, to
understand the whole picture, one needs to be informed to events which
lead up to the battle and an inept knowledge of how it became so
celebrated in the United States. The time line follows after Texas declared Independence from Mexico
in 1836 and after the early dealing with the United States as Texas
received statehood in 1845.<br />
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Mexico was under a new Government. Benito Juarez, had been living in New Orleans, Louisiana exiled because of his objections to the corrupt military dictatorship of Antonio López de Santa Anna. Faced <br />
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with growing discontent, Santa Anna resigned in 1855 and Juárez returned to Mexico. In 1855, he became the Minister of Justice. Juarez then issued a series of reforms (called Ley Juarez):<br />
* Abolished fueros and the use of special military and ecclesiastical courts in civil cases.<br />
* All church property except buildings used for worship was
confiscated without any compensation. Money from sale of these
properties were confiscated.<br />
* Non-civil marriages were declared annulled.<br />
* Separation of church and state was proclaimed.<br />
* Cemeteries were now public property and burial fees abolished.<br />
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In 1861 he took control of the Capitol placing these rules into effect.
The new rules caused a civil war placing great debt upon Mexico. On July
17, 1861, he issued a statement that all foreign debts payment would
temporary be stopped for two years. After two years, payments would
resume. England and Spain unhappy about this negotiated and come to
agreements. However, France under the rule of Napoleon III refused to
reach agreements and desired to place their own Emperor Rule in Mexico.<br />
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French troops already occupying the port city of Veracruz since December
8, 1861 with forces of approximately 8,000 on the Mexican
southeastern coast along the Gulf of Mexico moved inland towards the city
Puebla meeting an ill-equipped group on Zapata Indians and Mexico
Mestizo group of 4,500 commanded by Texas - born General Ignacio
Zaragosa. The French lost and retreated. This is "Cinco De Mayo." The Battle of Puebla was an inspirational event for wartime Mexico, and
it provided a stunning revelation to the rest of the world which had
largely expected a rapid victory for French arms. The following year, President Juárez declared that the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla would be a national holiday,
regarded as "Battle of Puebla Day" or "Battle of Cinco de Mayo".
Although today it is recognized in some countries as a day of Mexican
heritage celebration, it is not a federal holiday in Mexico. <br />
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While the Mexican victory was
short lived, France eventually took control of Mexico proclaiming
Ferdinand Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico. Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, after a distinguished career in the Austrian Navy was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on 10 April 1864, with the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican aristocrats who sought to revive the Mexican monarchy. It is also believed that
Napoleon desired to not only acquire additional land claiming Mexico for
France, but to test the United States.<br />
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The Unites States did not recognize the new Government of Mexico.
However, due to the civil war between Union and Confederate States, the
United States could not get involved. Additionally, when the civil war
broke out, England and France both sympathized with the south. The war
began as a refusal to allow the south to separate. This would change
during Lincolns September 22, 1862 issued of the famous proclamation,
the gist of which was that on January 1, 1863, all slaves held in a
state or a part of a state which was in rebellion should be "then,
thence-forward and forever free. Neither European Government would
support the south on Slavery. Once the civil war ended, the United States did intervene assisting
Benito Juarez regain power and Maximilian was executed, after his
capture by the Mexican Liberal forces in 1867.<br />
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The celebration today continues much in the southern part of Mexico
although it is not a national holiday of Mexico. It is however, celebrated greater in the United States than in Mexico due to a group of college students who attended the California State University in 1967. They felt there was no Chicano holiday nor anything which recognized Mexican American heritage and therefore thought of starting this
tradition. They wanted something to recapture their history and decided
that the "Battle of Puebla" was symbolic to Mexico as that to Texans as
perhaps "The Battle of the Alamo." This helped them to connect it to
their struggle for the formation of a Chicano Studies program at the
university and recognition as Hispanic people in the United States. The Cinco De Mayo celebration is held in nearly every state of the
USA. The largest held in Los Angeles, California, with crowds nearing
600,000 people attending celebrates today marks a proud cultural heritage of Mexico with Mexican cuisines and festivals of Hispanic origins and their influences and contributions in the United States.<br />
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<a href="http://chuckwagonrecipes.blogspot.com/p/tex-mex-and-southwest-cuisine.html">Recipes of Mexican Cuisines: </a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Austin Edison wins 2013 BEST in SHOW Cowboy Round-Up, Hondo, Texas</b></span></td></tr>
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In 2012, Austin Edison entered his first official Baking Contest as a 14 year old at the <a href="http://cowboyandchuckwagoncooking.blogspot.com/2012/04/young-cowboy-cook.html">Cowboy Round-Up Chuck Wagon Cook-Off</a> held in Hondo, Texas. Entries were from both youth and adults where each group is awarded first through third place, then best in category between the two groups and Best in Show. Entering 3 of the 7 total Baking categories, Austin not only won first place
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In 2013, he elected to enter again, this time just two of the seven categories, with his special cookie recipe for "OUTLAW COOKIES" and his bread, "Jalapeno and Cheese Buckaroo Bread." Once again, he won First Place with each entry earning the best in category for each and the Best in Show with his bread recipe. </div>
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Austin learned how to cook mostly from his mother and grandmother where he occasionally helps out in the kitchen, but camp cooking he credits to his dad and the chuckwagon crew of "Cosineros Del Campo" owned by Daniel "Danny" Canales from Ricardo, Texas and Pete Garcia, of Kingsville, Texas first exposed to the chuckwagon's at legendary King Ranch. There, he learned how to use the cast iron dutch oven cooking Pan De Campo bread and gained much of his experience to earn his championship and the title of <a href="http://www.caller.com/news/2012/mar/25/chuck-wagon-kid-takes-cowboy-cooking-awards/">"The Chuckwagon Kid"</a> futured in his hometown newspaper.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>BUCKAROO Jalapeno and Cheese BREAD</b></span></div>
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1 cup lukewarm water</div>
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3 cups bread flour (plus some more for dusting the board)</div>
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1/2 tbsp sugar</div>
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1 tsp Kosher salt</div>
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1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese</div>
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2 large jalapeño peppers, chopped (take seeds out for
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¼ t instant yeast(quick rise)</div>
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sprinkle of olive oil, for plastic wrap</div>
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In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 1 cup water,
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Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles.
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Take the two Jalapeno peppers and wash, then slice removing seeds and stem for milder pepper flavor which most people will prefer. Dice into find pieces and then shred 1 cup of sharp cheddar cheese. </div>
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Indoors or outdoor cooking, preheat a large 12" inch dutch oven . You can line the bottom of the dutch oven with parchment paper or lightly oil and place dough into dutch oven then bake for 45 or until golden brown at 400 degrees (F). If cooking outdoors directly on coals, place more coals on the lid using less on the very bottom to prevent burning. Note: If using an outdoor grill, just set the dutch oven on the grill rack and cover the grill for approximately 30 minutes, then remove dutch oven lid and recover grill for additional 10-15 minutes to reach the perfect color. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Austin Edison with Pete Garcia making Bread at King Ranch</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://chuckwagonrecipes.blogspot.com/">return to recipes:</a><br />
<a href="http://americanchuckwagoncooking.blogspot.com/">return to Chuck Wagons</a><br />
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cowboysandchuckwagoncookinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10874118941778139191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294583146418243340.post-63666571096126686202013-04-24T01:32:00.002-05:002013-04-24T15:29:11.376-05:00Western Swing, Going for the Record<br />
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Ambassador of Western Swing is at it again</b></i>, and this
time with a goal bigger than Texas!
<a href="http://www.billymata.com/world_record.htm">Billy Mata</a> is looking for dancers and sponsors to make a bid for
the Guinness World Record for the most couples dancing to the
official music of Texas, Western Swing.<br />
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On May 4, 2013 the record-breaking attempt will take place at the <a href="http://www.anhalthall.com/">Ahhalt Dance Hall</a> near
Spring branch, Texas. The historic Dancehall was featured in
Texas Monthly magazine in its coverage of the rich tradition of
Texas Dance Halls. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many of the Texas Dance Halls, began with roots to the early european migration into Texas. Groups like the ODHS (Sons of Hermann) hall, founded by
Germans, the SPJST (a Czech fraternal organization) hall, and the
Catholic church’s parish hall often provided funding for the social gathering centers which featured Saturday night dances where the whole family could attend for food, entertainment and socializing at the end of the long hard week<span style="font-size: small;"> of work. </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Western Swing is uniquely an American music born out of the
tradition of these hard-working folks who gathered on the Saturday
night. Early bands featured a fiddle player, guitar, banjo and the <span style="font-size: small;">occasional jug band. </span>In the Depression Era, early names such as Arty Shaw, Benny Goodman<span style="font-size: small;"> and Glen Miller would entertain the large <span style="font-size: small;">metropolitan</span> cities with Big band Sound, while rural America danced Western Swing to names like </span>Tommy Duncan, Milton
Brown, Spade Cooley and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Their instruments of cowboy and country-western music blending in European and Mexican polka styles, even some
New Orleans jazz and taking their music to the radio where entertaining community dance halls. It was music with the heart of
the American Southwest, but soon it became a national,
an today a worldwide phenomenon</span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The dance steps are mixed influences from early square dances and ballroom steps combine <span style="font-size: small;">w</span>ith cultural influence polkas but true Swing dancing finds its roots with the Texas Tommy. A dance that began in 1910 in the San <span style="font-size: small;">Fransisco</span> Bay Area. It would later influence the</span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> popular Lindy Hop dance steps that originated in Harlem in 1927. <span style="font-size: small;">These early forms of swing dancing would <span style="font-size: small;">gi</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">ve way to various influences and take root creat<span style="font-size: small;">ing new dance steps as the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Charleston, Fox Trot, Jig Trot and Jitter Bug<span style="font-size: small;"> which often placed more <span style="font-size: small;">emphases</span> on </span>footwork, though Western Swing has out survived them in popularity.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Swing changed the standard tempo of step-step combining crotchets and quavers (quarter notes and eighth notes) that many swing dancers interpret as 'triple steps' and 'steps' — yet also introduces changes in the way these rhythms were played — as a distinct delay or '</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">relaxed' approach to timing. Once just a fiddle and guitar, bands added electrically amplified instruments. Drums would reinforce a strong backseat of tempo giving a heavier honky tonk beat that would be superimposed onto a polka, waltz, jazz or blues styles music. Western swing's up-beat tempo attracted huge crowds to dance halls, from Texas to California during the 1930's and 40's. Once called folk or hillbilly music until the 1932 hit, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" and Western Swing came to name. Swing became so popular, renown Los Angeles Disc Jockey Al Jarvis held a radio contest for top popular band leaders. The winner would be named "the King of Swing". Unexpectedly, big names like Benny Goodman and Harry James were beaten by Western Swing artist Spade Cooley. Jarvis declared Cooley to be the King of Western Swing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the Federal Government imposed the 1944 war-time nightclub tax, swing began to decline. Although, the music grew to influenced other genres known as honky-tonk, rockabilly, and country rock. At the height of swing, Decca Records in 1955 released what "Billboard" called (an ambitious project) issuing seven albums of country dance music featuring a popular arrangement of dancehall favorites. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While swing music decline to the picking of country western and rock a billy tunes, Austin, Texas would become a major center point around music of many genres. As </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings introduce <span style="font-size: small;">Outlaw Country, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grammy Award winning artists Ray Benson and Asleep at the
Wheel tour the country and release recordings that kept Western Swing
alive. PBS aired the TV show, "Austin City Limits" which often hosted local and known artist of country music. Many of those artist as many country artist of today continue to play the early sounds of Milton <span style="font-size: small;">Brown and legendary king of swing, Bob Will<span style="font-size: small;">s</span></span>. Great songs such as "Osage Stomp," "I'm a Ding Dong daddy from Dumas," "San Antonio Rose," <span style="font-size: small;">"Miss Molly<span style="font-size: small;">," "Roly Poly," and "Take Me Back to Tulsa" are played coast to coast across the country. Today those older songs of Western Swing continue to influenced every form <span style="font-size: small;">o</span>f country music that followed. </span></span>In 2011, the Texas Legislature <span style="font-size: small;">formally</span> declare <span style="color: black;">Western Swing as the "Official Music of Texas." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lockhart, Texas resident Joel Gammage with <a href="http://www.texashatters.com/">Texas Hatters</a>, is co-hosting the event with Billy Mata and Mata's manager, Joanne Heston. Gammage who grew up in Austin, Texas relocated when family decided to move the renown hat business to the rural town of Lockhart, Texas famous for Texas style Barbeque. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Texas Hatter's, who's customers have included many celebrities from the nations Presidents to movie stars<span style="font-size: small;"> has long been a popular hat business among musicians. Such names like Hank Willianms Jr, Van Zants, Jerry Jeff Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Willie Nelson among them. When Texas Hatter's moved to the new location in Lockhart, Joel reintroduce Western Swing to the small town becoming involved with the civic community. Today, he not only masters the nations best hat's but also is heavily involved with music as booking manager for Cedar Hall, Music and Entertainment Coordinator at Imagine Lockhart and the Event Manager at the recent opening of The Chisholm Trail Ballroom. Gammage along with Teri White from the Broke Spoke nightclub in Austin, Texas will assist teaching the Swing Dance steps before the event starts. The current Western Swing Dance record was set August 2012 in Grands Rapids, Minnesota consist of 756 swing dancers. Gammage plans to bring 400 couples together for this event in hopes to break the current record and return Western Swing to Texas. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">For information of the upcoming record, check the <a href="http://www.billymata.com/world_record.htm">Billy Mata fan page</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
to restore and how to season remains the biggest question with cast
iron cookware that I receive from folks around the globe. The term,
"There is more than one way to skin a cat" often relates to the care or
restoring of cast iron since many methods work and some work better than
others. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whether
using an aerosol spray can of Oven-Cleaner, coke-cola, electrolysis or
placing the cook ware directly on a heat source first, there are many
ways to clean rust off from a piece of cast iron and surely many
different ways to restore the cookware. However, in an early blog <a href="http://cowboyandchuckwagoncooking.blogspot.com/2011/01/restore-and-clean-cast-iron-cookware.html">"Restore and Clean Cast iron Cookware"</a>
I try to fully explain why I choose one method over so many others. I
always look for how to perform any task getting the best results,
performing the least amount of effort, most affordable cost that
provides the safest measures to any job. This carries over into
restoring my personal cast iron as well. I do not knock others for
finding what works best for them, although many other methods either
cost more, do not get the best results or are simply not as safe which
is why I practice what I preach.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I restore every piece of my cast iron using plain white vinegar. It's that simple. Take a look.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here
is a piece of cast iron cookware with mild traces of rust. It is not
pitted but did need to have the rust removed and the reseasoning to
protect the cookware from future oxidation. Our first step, is to mix a
50/50 solution of white vinegar with plain tap water to soak and clean
the surface rust off. <span style="font-size: small;">Normally</span>, I soak over night, this I went right to work cleaning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Minutes
after pouring the solution into the skillet, it quickly begins to work.
Notice the use of a plain scrub brush of nylon bristles. No wire brush
required to begin scrubbing away the rusty surface. Vinegar cuts through the rust getting back to the iron finish. <span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By
scrubbing the cookware, the cast iron begins to shine removing rust
from the oxidized surface. After completely removing the rust from the
surface, I always wash in plain luke warm water with a mild soap for a
final cleaning. This will neutralize the vinegar. Once washed, wiped
dry with a towel and place in the pre-heated oven at 250 degree (F).
This temperature is used to dry the cast iron. Plus it allows the cast
iron to preheat while drying. Even when cooking, a good habit is to
always slowly heat cast iron cookware for longer life. Now the item is
ready for seasonings: </span></span><br />
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