Blue River Regulators/Rock Creek Station Video Updated May 21, 2007

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

I just uploaded (May 21, 2007) a newer version of this video with added information courtesy of Delmonico and Lone Gunman that includes on screen information and cast credits at the end. Marshal'ette should have it running sometime tomorrow.

Bill



Lone Gunman sent me a video to upload to the CAS City Tube, it was uploaded this evening......

It is a video of a reenactment that Blue River Regulators took part in at Rock Creek Station in 2000. I added titles and some background music, pretty interesting video.

Knowing the Marshal'ette she'll have it up and running in a day or two. 

Bill

VIDEO LINK

[Delmonico]

Hmmm, I wonder if that is some of the stuff the local PBS station took?  Either way that is some good stuff at a historic place.

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,14668.0.html

Link to some information on this years event, I know river City John had fun last year, even got him in a tent before the hail hit.

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Del,
Don't know much about the video.....it's pretty much the way I got it except for adding the titles and music.

It did have a True Value Hardware Ad on the end of it that I deleted. If Lone Gunman had furnished me with the name of the fella with the straw hat in the video telling about Rock Creek Station, I could have put his name on it so any one watching would know who he was.

Bill

[Delmonico]

Yeah that is the one from the local PBS station (it's there now) the fellow in the hat is Wayne Brant, the park superintentant. 

The fellow cleaning the Sharps is me, I had just shot it as a demo, I don't have time to do that anymore when I'm there, to many folks to feed.  When Wayne brought the camera man over to film the cooking he said "oh my god. when I opened that almost done pot roast, but it didn't make it to the film. 

The guy who is running and falls after Lonegunman gets shot is my good friend Gopher Grease, looks good, but he over did it for the camera, the park folks hauled him over to the cook camp in a pick-up and he spent most of the rest of the day with ice on his knee.  The ice chest hid off in the brush is good for more than keeping food from spoiling.  Lucky someone else hid one over there, I only need mine for meat in hot weather and I use dry ice.

All in all it is a fun time down there and the tourist crowd gets bigger every year, we had close to 2,000 pass through there last year both days.

Edit.  I'll have to listen to the music at home, I don't have speakers at work.  Thaks Bill and also thanks to the  Marshal'ette.

[Lone Gunman]

Thanks for all the help Bill, I'm clueless on the movin' pictures.

It's the very same one Del. The video was produced by Nebraska Game & Parks and aired on their show Outdoor Nebraska several times until the show was 'defunded' a couple years later.  2000 was the first year for the re-enactment but it's been repeated every year since, three times each day the first weekend of June. The narrator is park superintendant Wayne Brandt.  The cast changes some each year but in this video that's Delmonico with his Sharps and dutch ovens, NCOWS Banker John Irons is Horace Wellman (with the hoe), Blue River Regulators Marshal Roger Bodfield is Hickok, I play the part of McCandles, Donna is Mrs Wellman, Elton Long (with the shotgun) plays Doc Brink, Matt Moore (on the receiving end of the shotgun) is Woods, and Bob Wolf is the hoed Gordon.  You can read a little more about the story  HERE ,  HERE and numerous other places.

A unique aspect of this park is that a team of archaeologists from UNL surveyed the area using ground penetrating radar and other fancy techniques to determine where everything had been and the buildings have all been reconstructed exactly where the originals stood. When I am gunned down by the evil Hickok it is on the very spot McCandles died in 1861. Everything today appears just like it did in this original photograph:



Of course, this is indisputable proof that Nebraska is where the west begun.   

[Delmonico]

George, do you remember who played Monroe that year? 

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

George & Del.....
Thanks for the information....it's too late late for the video on CAS-Tube but I can add it to the one I have saved on my computer. George, I e-mailed you about making a compilation of all the videos I have (about a half dozen) and making it available to NCOWS members that might like to have copy. Take a look and tell me what you think...

Was Trap one of the guys that got shot???/ It kind of looked like him. George, were you taller?? or a little skinnier??

Bill

[Lone Gunman]

Uhhh...younger...yeah that's it... I was younger then.   

[Delmonico]

No Trap wasn't there.

[Lone Gunman]

George, do you remember who played Monroe that year? 

That's John Bstandig's son Aaron. John is the man in the wheelchair in the background of the scene with the story teller. 

[Delmonico]

OK, the story teller is "Four Stories" aka Rob Wilkens, he is a photgrapher by trade, him and his partner did the art work for the ad we had in "Shoot" a couple years ago.  He hasn't been down for a couple years, seems someone always wants him at their wedding to take pictures the last couple of years.  To bad, he's a great story teller.

[River City John]

It is easy to be injured throwing yourself down on the ground half a dozen times a day for two days.

Badly sprained my rotator cuff on my shootin' arm last year, took almost a year to completely heal so's as I could raise my arm to scratch the back of my neck or reach behind my back to grab one end of a gunbelt to strap it on.
It was fun, though.

LG, whatever happened to the photo of all of us lined up blasting away at you in the loft?

[Delmonico]

I forgot about your rotor cuff John, since I'm not to fall down period because it messes up my insides, I don't any more.  The only thing I'll do is shoot someone with Black Iron Bill's shotgun if they complain about the food.

[Lone Gunman]

LG, whatever happened to the photo of all of us lined up blasting away at you in the loft?