Guns Of The Golden West

They say there's only 2 kinds of people in this world... those with loaded guns... and those who dig... in the case of our teamster, Wagon Skinner, he's a pretty dang good digger of sorts (given he yields to a loaded smoke wagon skinner) nice picture in Innisfail AB Keven!

There you go you iron lovers!

For the pistoleers, smoke wagon skinners, and fastdraw junkies of the group, feast your eyes!! Movie FASTDRAWS rated by World champion pistolero! -Dance with yer spurs on -Evret Dawson... https://www.facebook.com/thisisinsiderentertainment/videos/153990219902319/

When you're the one in the saddle, you know the feeling of gettin learnt Dance with yer spurs on -Evret Dawson

Everyone can use a laugh especially in these times. Seems "Outlaw Annie" & "Black Bart" are of different persuasions when it comes to their Coffee!... Bart thinks Tims is just Day old camp coffee. That Starbucks is for sophisticated men ... such as Himself. Annie counters that Tims is for real Men ... hard working. So Bart unwisely runs his mouth suggesting Annie might find Her real man in the Billiard Hall next door! That He would find himself a real Lady inside Starbucks! Hmmmm ... But Bart should know the Golden rule ... "If Annie ain't happy ... then nobody is happy"!!! HaHa Seems likely der won't be any canoodling between Bart & Annie for some time one would think! To the "friends" of the Guns of the Golden West ... Have the best Day! "Cowboy Bob"

Prior to da world shutin down ... Annie thought Bart Smoked too much & well don't get him started on her Drinking! Apparently Bart smelled worse than da odour from da burning barrel out back of the Ranch House.... & that was still taking into account he'd had his semi annual bath! Bart countered that Her Breath was like walking into their Distillery Shed all day long! Well then ... as you can see from the photo ...da Pandemic took care of that! No more Smokin & no more drinkin. They were headed for counselling ... no need anymore. Bart is still scratchin his head on da romance side a things thou? Notice they are a social distanced 6 feet/Boots apart. HaHa! Enjoy ... GOGW

Thanks to Heidi Nelson of Elevate UAV photography for the awesome pictures of us at the Innisfail Historical Society this past weekend!! -dance with yer spurs on -Evret Dawson

Thanks to our Teamster Keven G! Built a couple brand new old fashioned travel boxes for our stage coach!! Hopefully to be seen this year in the Calgary Stampede Parade! Keep an eye out for us - Evret Dawson

On the road again with "Black Bart" & "Outlaw Annie". But first a Starbucks coffee for Bart as He appears to be out. We all know how grumpy he is till he has had his morning Coffee. But the sign says they are still closed! Dang it ...... The sun has been up for hours ... These city folk are sure late risers! Luckily Annie is ok as She has Her Tims. Well at least Bart & Annie are Social Distancing while they wait ... That is 6 feet/Boots apart! See more

It's one thing to be a gunfighter, but then it's another to rock a colt mounted on a good ol' rocket donkey HOT DAMN!!!

Well that was a flippy-do if I say so m'self https://youtu.be/CXA_ZIsBaho

Cassidy's first bank robbery took place on June 24, 1889, when he, Warner, and two of the McCarty brothers robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride. The businessman L. L. Nunn had taken a controlling interest in the bank the previous year.[11] The robbers stole approximately $21,000 (equivalent to $598,000 in 2019), after which they fled to the Robbers Roost, a remote hideout in southeastern Utah. Cassidy associated with a wide circle of criminals, most notably his clos...est friend William Ellsworth "Elzy" Lay, Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan, Ben Kilpatrick, Harry Tracy, Will "News" Carver, Laura Bullion, and George "Flat Nose" Curry, who collectively became the so-called "Wild Bunch". The gang assembled sometime after Cassidy's release from prison in 1896 and took its name from the DoolinDalton gang, also known as the "Wild Bunch". Cassidy approached Utah Governor Heber Wells to negotiate an amnesty. Wells advised him to ask the Union Pacific Railroad to drop their criminal complaints against him, and Union Pacific chairman E. H. Harriman attempted to meet with Cassidy through Warner. On August 29, 1900, Cassidy, Longabaugh, and others robbed Union Pacific train No. 3 near Tipton, Wyoming, breaking Cassidy's earlier promise to the governor of Wyoming and ending any chance for amnesty. Josie Bassett claimed in 1960 that Cassidy came to visit her in the 1920s "after returning from South America," and that he "died in Johnnie, Nevada. Residents in Cassidy's hometown of Circleville, Utah claimed in an interview that he worked in Nevada until his death.

Robert LeRoy Parker was born on April 13, 1866 in Beaver, Utah Territory, the first of thirteen children of British immigrants Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies.[2][3][4] The Parker and Gillies families had converted to the Mormon faith while still living in the United Kingdom. Maximillian Parker was twelve years old when his family arrived in Salt Lake City in 1856 as Mormon pioneers.[5] Ann Gillies was born and lived in Tyneside in northeast England before immigra...ting to the U.S. with her family in 1859 at age 14.[6][7][8] The couple were married in July 1865.[9] Robert Parker grew up on his parents' ranch near Circleville, approximately 215 miles (346 km) south of Salt Lake City.[citation needed] The log cabin in Circleville, Utah, where Robert LeRoy Parker grew up. Parker fled his home as a teenager, and while working on a dairy ranch, met cattle thief Mike Cassidy. He subsequently worked on several ranches, in addition to a brief apprenticeship with a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where he got his nickname (by the word butcher, which morphed later into Butch), to which he soon added the last name Cassidy in honor of his old friend and mentor.

One pivotal Civil War battle was fought in an unlikely place: New Mexico In a bold move designed to fill rebel coffers with Cripple Creek gold, Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded New Mexico Territory from the south in early 1862, believing he could march right up the Rio Grande and take Colorado. Unbeknownst to Sibley, however, the First Regiment of Volunteers in Colorado caught wind of the scheme and marched 400 miles south in just 13 days to join the Yankees a...t Fort Union, near Santa Fe. Instead of a cakewalk, Sibley’s forces wound up fighting what many historians call the Gettysburg of the West. After just two days of skirmishing, Union troopsprobably relying on local ranchers as guidesoutflanked the Confederates and burned their supply train. After that, it was a long, slow march back to Texas for the rebels, who never returned. See more