The Cowboys

[Ozark Tracker]

bad girls, bad girls,  what ya gonna do when they come for you.


whoops wrong words to that tune.

[Texas Lawdog]

OT, I think I'll come along peaceable like.

[Leo Tanner]

There's a place in Sedona called the Cowboy Club an in the men's room there is a full size poster from that movie right over the can.  It's kinda distracting ta say the least 


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Heck, I'd even bring my only handcuffs.

[Leo Tanner]

Are them the fur lined ones?

     Ta be honest, I don't even remember the plot of that movie.  I think it came out right after Young Guns.  They really gave the westerns another shot with young audiences there in the late 80's an early 90's.  Everyone seems ta hate the Sharon Stone movie "Quick and the Dead" but I don't mind watchin it a bit.


Leo

[Willie Dixon]

It's times like that, when I look at that website that I wish I was born in my uncle's era rather than my own.  I was born in 1983, so basically it was all GI Joe, and post-apocalyptic futures and space men.  I grew up luckily on VCR cassettes of John Wayne and other greats thanks to my uncle.  My first "modern western" that I went to see in the movies was Dances with Wolves and Tombstone.  I watch Christmas Story and wish that I could really understand his life and Red Ryder's role in it.  Thanks to DVD's and collections I have a chance, I grew up loving the west with no venue for it for the most part. 

Now luckily, I was able to do enough hours on the internet to find SASS and this website.  The fact that a group is 9 miles away from where I live and SASS's main headquarters is literally right across the freeway from me, it's a no brainer.  I can finally live out my cowboy and Indian fantasies.  Even if most my age don't get it, and don't care... although the game GUN did help, a lot, now some are finally getting it.  I'm trying, getting at least one person per day asking me about the West, and that's always good.

In a way, a movie like Pirates, but western would help a lot.  It would bring posers and losers for sure, but for those that dream of riding their chestnut mare across the plains or the high desert, it would help, and maybe in the bonus features, they'd talk about CAS and the like.  It was really hard getting here from the "Buckaroos" said in Tombstone's.

One of my favorite animated movies is Toy Story 2, why?  because of the story, about Woody and how people decided to stop honoring their past, and care only about the maybe/distant future.

[Texas Lawdog]

Willie, I was born after my Dad came home from WW2. I grew up in the 50s watchin' all the Westerns. We got our first TV in 1953. I watched all the TV westerns of the 50s and the 60s. We had horses and learned to ride. When I got older I worked on a ranch as a ranch hand. I always enjoyed the the West and growing up in Texas didn't hurt at all. I went to college at a Cowboy school and graduated and spent 6 years in the Army. I always wanted to be a Texas Ranger, I passed the tests to be a Texas State Trooper but I had a bad eye. I joined the Police force and for the last 38 years I have been a Cop and a Deputy Sheriff. I learned to shoot when I was young. Shooting has been a part of my life, so when I got into CAS, it was just another form of shooting.I always wear western clothes and I still watch all those old westerns. I guess you could  say I have been around awhile.

[Texas Lawdog]

In reference to the Westerns made n ow, I would have to say that "Tombstone" is my favorite.  I've spent a lot of time in Tombstone and I have a good friend that is in the Movie.  BucK Taylor, who portrays Turkey Creek. I met Buck back in 83 at a celebrity team roping in Fort Worth. Ben Johnson organized the roping to benefit abused children. I got to meet a lot of Western Stars at those ropings. Buck is an accomplished artist who paints with watercolors. I have several of his prinrs framed and hanging in my house. He comes to the Stock Show in Fort Worth each year and he attends other Rodeos in Texas and other states. He sells his prints at the shows and over the internet.

[Willie Dixon]

OMG!!! Sorry huge fan-nut moment!!! I love Turkey Creek Johnson.  That Turkey Creek! He's the one that got me interested in Wild West history and anthropology when I was ten!!  I've been in that section at Borders ever since!!  Since he was just "there" so to speak, I had to find out about him.  That's also where my "California Creek" comes from! Just say thanks to him for me.

And yeah, Tombstone is totally my favorite.  Big inspiring movie too, gets me goosebumps every time during that Train Station scene right before the vendetta ride.  I've been chasing that dream ever since.

Too bad that Western isn't it's own thriving genre anymore, but I think it's the writing problem, not the capability of the actors.  I mean Gene Hackmen in one of his best villain roles and Russel Crowe and Leo DiCaprio.  And then Russel Crowe and Christian Bale make a huge hit in 3:10 to Yuma with Ben Foster.  I think it's the writing.  Young Guns, Bad Girls, and Quick and the Dead just don't have the writing that "Angel and the Badman," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "3:10 to Yuma," and even the Spaghetti Westerns had (Who can forget "Once Upon a Time in the West!?! or "Hang'em High).   

We just need another person, of this younger generation to have the cahones to do it.  What's more American than "The West?"  Nowhere else in history has there ever been a "west" with all of it's players.  That's why I love another western, even though I get into debates on if it's a western... "Firefly/Serenity." Yeah it's a Sci-fi, but you know what, the writing, the plot lines, the humor, the sadness, the story, the concept.  It's western!

[Texas Lawdog]

Buck did a self-portrait of himself as Turkey Creek. The original watercolor is hanging in the Western Heritage Museum of Ranching in Lubbock. I've got one of prints having in my den. They had a big ceremony out at Lubbock and Buck invited us to attend. They had a display of his costume in the Museum and he donated the Original watercolor to the museum.  He's got a web site where you can purchase the prints he has done.  My den looks like an art Gallery. I've got 5 different ones in my den.

[Deadeye Dick]

Just visited Buck's website. Excellent site to visit. Noticed he did the posters for our (Oregon's) Pendleton Roundup. He's a talented artist in both paintings and the movies.
Deadeye Dick

[Willie Dixon]

Thanks for that info!
I love painting, especially with watercolor and I never knew I could use my techniques learned in Chinese and Japaneese brush painting for western portraits and motifs!  That's awesome! It just looks so warm and worn.  Awesome.  Thanks

[Daniel Nighteyes]

I heard Gene Autry's "Here comes Santy Claus" on the radio yesterday, brought back good memories. I forgot all about Sugar Foot until I watched the video. The good ol' days.

Will Hutchins, the fellow who played Sugarfoot, hosts a web radio station.  Here's a link to it:  http://www.bostonpete.com/station017.html  He plays music from the 40's and 50's.

On the same site there's a outstanding "station" that plays nothing but Western Music.  The host, O.J. Sikes, really knows his stuff.  He has an impressive collection of western music, including an amazing number of recordings that haven't been available for decades.  Here's a link to his station:  http://www.bostonpete.com/station004.html

[Daniel Nighteyes]

Willie, I was born after my Dad came home from WW2. I grew up in the 50s watchin' all the Westerns. We got our first TV in 1953. I watched all the TV westerns of the 50s and the 60s.

My mother,who was in her early 20's at the time, worked in the Pentagon during WWII (parts of it were still under construction).  Along with her girlfriends and roommates, she went to see a lot of movies and live stage performances by folks like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, etc.  Needless to say, she developed into a MAJOR westerns fan.  I was born in June of 1946, and grew up listening to western music and watching western movies well before we got that first TV in 1953.

[Deadeye Dick]

Daniel,
Thanks for the information on the web sites. I didn't know Sugarfoot's real name. Now if I can figure out how to access the site to hear the music. 

[Daniel Nighteyes]

Daniel,
Thanks for the information on the web sites. I didn't know Sugarfoot's real name. Now if I can figure out how to access the site to hear the music. 

Just click the link in my earlier post.  Then, look to the right of Will's photo for a link that says Play Broadcast and click on it.  Voila!

The same is true of the other link -- to O.J. Sikes' Western Music.

[Deadeye Dick]

Daniel,

Just click the link in my earlier post.  Then, look to the right of Will's photo for a link that says Play Broadcast and click on it.  Voila!
The same is true of the other link -- to O.J. Sikes' Western Music.

I think I must have to have something else to play broadcast. I have an Apple computer. I think it's setup for IBM clones.
Thanks for the info.

[Daniel Nighteyes]

Daniel,I think I must have to have something else to play broadcast. I have an Apple computer. I think it's setup for IBM clones.
Thanks for the info.

<-------------  [Wiping egg off of face]

Didn't consider that, pard.  Apologies.