Very Important Day In History

[Texas Lawdog]

Bro. Gene Autry was born in Oklahoma on this date in 1907.  Happy 101st Birthday, Gene.

[Leo Tanner]

Happy 101st Birthday, Gene.

Gene would be a bit old ta jump outta airplanes
     Sorry Gene, bad joke.  Happy birthday.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, Gene was in the Air Crops in WWII and served in Burma.

[Silver Creek Slim]

He was a good one. I got a few of his DVDs.

Slim

[Texas Lawdog]

If you ever get to L A and have about 3 hours to spend, visit the Western Heritage Museum.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Sorry ta say but I never want ta go ta LA. They should more that museum somewhere else.

Slim

[litl rooster]

  I agree with Slim....

[Ozark Tracker]

when I graduated High School, 1969, I went out there to LA, stayed a little over a month and half.  Just had always wanted to see everything out there,  looked it all over and came back to Oklahoma don't think I forgot nothing out there, so I don't need to go back 

[Arcey]

Taxes, criminal activities, gangs, overcrowding, traffic, pollution, hollyweird......

What's not to love? 

[litl rooster]

   I didn't loose ennything in branson mo. but if i was going that way I'd have to stop and see Roy Rogers

[Texas Lawdog]

I went out to Victorville, Calif. and saw the museum before they moved it to Branson. I got meet ROY JR. while I was there. Dale was made an honorary citizen of Fort Worth and Roy was commissioned as a Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff.  It is worth it to go see all the memrobilia in there and Roy's gun collection.  For MY Masonic Bros., there is one room dedicated to Roy's Masonic memberships.

[Leo Tanner]

There's a lot of neat stuff in Missouri.  Used ta drive by the house where Mr. Howard was shot, but they don't make no big deal about it.  It's just an old house with a plaque out front. 
     Another strange thing about livin in KC is that ya can drive past a statue of General Lee an a 5 minute ride later yer lookin at General Grant.  After awile ya don't even think about which state yer in durrin the course of the day.


Leo   

[Texas Lawdog]

My Father's side of the family came Johnson County, Missouri. I had a  GG uncle that was in the Cavalry before the War. He was a Capt. Most of the kinfolk were Confederates. He just didn't wear his uniform while he was home. I would put it back before he left.  He stayed in the Army and was in the Powder River campaigns.  I have his 1851 Navy Colt and most of the holster.

[Leo Tanner]

Johnson County is on the Kansas side, it's where all the rich folks live nowadays.  The Missouri side is called Leawood and is part of Jackson County.  I lived in Jackson, but in midtown where I stuck out like a sore thumb.
     
     That gun must be a real treasure fer ya.  I bet ya take very good care of it.


Leo

[Delmonico]

There's a lot of neat stuff in Missouri.  Used ta drive by the house where Mr. Howard was shot, but they don't make no big deal about it.  It's just an old house with a plaque out front. 
     Another strange thing about livin in KC is that ya can drive past a statue of General Lee an a 5 minute ride later yer lookin at General Grant.  After awile ya don't even think about which state yer in durrin the course of the day.


Leo   

Be careful of that, them border wars ain't been forgotten.  Newbrassky Teritory did our best to keep both sides over on there side.  Rumor is a few from both sides were sent home via the Missouri River, sans boat.

[Leo Tanner]

That river is said ta be the best way of...
     Never mind, I fergot what I was goin ta say.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

On this date in 1866, The Reno Brothers pulled the first Train Robbery. They got $ 10,000 in cash.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

On this date in 1866, The Reno Brothers pulled the first Train Robbery. They got $ 10,000 in cash.

Later, they got a "short shrift and a hempen collar."

(This is taken from our Club's website: the Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society - History ) http://home.comcast.net/~smvsposse/history.htm

[Texas Lawdog]

SHB, Are you tryin' to tell me that the Boys had a long drop on a short rope.  Around the the turn of the century, Black Jack Ketchum was hung in Clayton, New Mexico. The first attempt failed, the second time they pulled off his head

[Texas Lawdog]

On this date in 1792, FreeMasons laid the cornerstone of the White House. In 1845, Texans ratifyed a state constitution and prepared for annexation.