Show us their hats!

[Mighty44]

Another good one of Ernie Pyle -- mule kick OR or Strat?

 

[Bamaboots]

Cutter dents as well.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

H. Roe Bartle (c 1950's pic), wearing a Stetson Arminto & likely branded as an American Royal since Bartle was also wearing a shirt with the American Royal & Saddle & Sirloin Club brand, & that he & his wife Maggie were long time members of Saddle & Sirloin. Bartle was a two term mayor of Kansas City, MO (1955-1963).

H. Roe Bartle (same hat & shirt) riding in parade car with former National FFA President Howard Downing (white hat) and two unknown individuals. 1958.

 

[Bamaboots]

Great pics, HJ. H. Roe kept a few sticks in the pocket of that great shirt. No pins in his hat.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Great pics, HJ. H. Roe kept a few sticks in the pocket of that great shirt. No pins in his hat.

I saw the sticks & there are lots of pics with him smoking one.

His nickname was Chief. He gets credit for convincing Lamar Hunt to bring his Texans to KC, at which time Hunt renamed the team to the Chiefs.

He may have a pin on the front point of the crown. There is something on there. If this hat survives it's probably in the archives of the City.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Harry Darby (1895-1987)

(ca 1940's pic?)

WWI veteran who went home to KS & started a steel manufacturing company making Army tanks (LCT's), railroad gondolas & box cars, & Navy ships as WWII approached.

Asked by the KS governor to complete an eleven month term in the US Senate (12/49 - 11/50) when his predecessor died while in office. When the term was complete the governor himself ran for & was elected as the new US Senator from KS. While in the US Senate Darby became good personal friends with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, also from KS.

By 1941 when the Saddle & Sirloin Club was formed Harry Darby had been appointed Vice President of the American Royal, & was a founding member of Saddle & Sirloin.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Kansas City, MO Mayor Frank Cromwell (6th from left) and former mayors--L - R: James A. Reed, George M. Shelley, Darius A. Brown, Leander J. Talbot, Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr., Cromwell, George H. Edwards, Jr., and Samuel B. Strother - attending funeral of Webster Davis. 2/1923

Marked by green arrow is Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr. who served as mayor only from 1908-1910, & son of the MO governor Thomas Theodore Crittenden who conspired with the Ford Bros, Dick Liddil, & Sheriff Timberlake to kill Frank & Jesse James. Upon Robert Ford's conviction at trial for the murder of Jesse James, the governor immediately pardoned him.

Upon the widow Zee James & her two children moving to Kansas City, a young Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr. eventually befriended young Jesse Edwards James (Tim). As adults in 1920 the two men along with financial investors would form a silent film company. The company would only manage to produce two silent films before failing miserably: Jesse James Under the Black Flag (1921) & Jesse James as the Outlaw (1921). Jesse Edwards James would play the part of his father.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Jesse Edwards James (1875 - 1951)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Crawford Goldsby (1876 - 1896)
aka Cherokee Bill

His father was a Buffalo Soldier in the Civil War. When his parents didn't stay together Crawford Goldsby was sent to the Indian school at Cherokee, KS, & then the Catholic Indian School at Carlisle, PA. At the age of 12 Goldsby left school on his own & it is said that he began to associate with unsavory characters, drink whiskey & rebel against authority.

At age 18 Goldsby shot & wounded his first man. On the run he headed into the Indian Nation where he befriended Jim & Bill Cook, also mixed blood Cherokees. Soon the "Cook Gang" was wanted for killing a deputy sheriff & a girlfriend to one of the Cooks told the Sheriff it was "Cherokee Bill" who killed the deputy, & the nickname stuck.

Goldsby was responsible for killing 7 men (some say 8) & committing 12 robberies in just the first 8 months of 1894. He paid for it all by hanging at the age of 20.

Posse & spectators

The hanging

With proper provenance one of his hats sold at auction in 2017 for $2880.00.

Note the embroidered hatband.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Choctaw Indian Chief Pushmataha (~1760's - 1824)

Known as the Indian General, Pushmataha led the Choctaw to fight on the side of the US in the war of 1812. In 1824 he traveled to the Capital in Washington DC where he died & was buried with full military honors.

 

[GHT]

What's the French for: "the definition of cool"? Alain Delon in a fedora.

 

[BobHufford]

Some things never change ...

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Some things never change ...

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Reminds me of gigging frogs with my dad when I was a small kid. Dad was the only one who ate the frog legs.

 

[MisplacedHillbilly]

I love fresh frog legs! Athough we always spotlighted them and shot them with a .22

Reminds me of gigging frogs with my dad when I was a small kid. Dad was the only one who ate the frog legs.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I love fresh frog legs! Athough we always spotlighted them and shot them with a .22

Must have some French in you.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I love fresh frog legs! Athough we always spotlighted them and shot them with a .22

I like them too. And we used a .22. The only time we used a gig was when we were where we weren’t supposed to be, & incognito.

 

[Zombie_61]

Must have some French in you.

And lead.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Walton Goggins

 

[Bamaboots]

Walton Goggins

From AL and a favorite actor of mine.

 

[GHT]

Marion Cotillard & Brad Pitt, from the 2016 film: "Allied."

 

[Bamaboots]

Movie hats.