Show us their hats!

[Bamaboots]

Wallace Wade

Frank Thomas

Paul Bryant

Gene Stallings gifting a hat?

 

[hatophile]

https://www.biz417.com/events/whiskey-myers/

These guys have some cool hats. Reminds me of Skynyrd a bit.

 

[Just A Hat Rack]

https://www.biz417.com/events/whiskey-myers/

These guys have some cool hats. Reminds me of Skynyrd a bit.

I saw these guys about a year ago in Columbus before the pandemic hit. Not much of a stage presence, but the music was spot on.

 

[hatophile]

I saw these guys about a year ago in Columbus before the pandemic hit. Not much of a stage presence, but the music was spot on.

I had never heard of them, just recently on Pandora. I like their sound.

 

[Bamaboots]

Nicholas Jackson, 13 year old Jr. World Bull Riding Champion.

 

[Bamaboots]

This photo shows John Wallace Comer, brother of future Alabama governor B.B. Comer, and his "body servant" Burrell, who accompanied Comer during his service with the Confederate Army. Burrell saved Comer after he was injured during the Battle of Atlanta and after the war, Burrell received a pension from Alabama. Photo from Alabama Department of Archives and History.

 

[Bamaboots]

Michael O’Shaughnessy and his brother James opened a commission house and cottonseed oil factory in Nashville during the mid 1860’s. Michael expanded his business to Huntsville in 1881; however it was James who most clearly recognized the potential of this city.

The brothers were eager supporters of Huntsville with capitol, experience and connections. In 1886 they organized the North Alabama Improvement Company. They eventually controlled oil mills throughout Alabama, had a refinery in Brooklyn and shipped oil to Europe.

Michael built the home known as Kildare (also known as the McCormick house at 2005 Kildare Street, where it still stands) and resided there until the turn of the century. James purchased several hundred acres on Monte Sano in 1885 for his home, which sadly was destroyed by fire in 1890 and never rebuilt.

Kildare house then.....

now

 

[Hurricane Jack]

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Michael O’Shaughnessy and his brother James opened a commission house and cottonseed oil factory in Nashville during the mid 1860’s. Michael expanded his business to Huntsville in 1881; however it was James who most clearly recognized the potential of this city.

The brothers were eager supporters of Huntsville with capitol, experience and connections. In 1886 they organized the North Alabama Improvement Company. They eventually controlled oil mills throughout Alabama, had a refinery in Brooklyn and shipped oil to Europe.

Michael built the home known as Kildare (also known as the McCormick house at 2005 Kildare Street, where it still stands) and resided there until the turn of the century. James purchased several hundred acres on Monte Sano in 1885 for his home, which sadly was destroyed by fire in 1890 and never rebuilt.

Kildare house then.....
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now
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Interesting pic & write up BB. When I first saw the pic with the derby & the long coat I immediately thought of the infamous stagecoach bandit, Black Bart. Identified by a laundry stamp on a handkerchief left behind Black Bart virtually disappeared from history once he was released from prison.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Captain Augustus McCrae & Captain Woodrow F. Call, 1868?

Pics of Texas Rangers before 1870 are pretty rare but this is Texas Rangers James Thomas Bird (left) and John J. Haynes in 1868. And just like in the prequel leading up to Lonesome Dove, Bird & Haynes spent most of their days fighting the Comanche Indians.

The hat is very much like a planter's hat of the 1840's or so.

 

[Desert dog]

Captain Augustus McCrae & Captain Woodrow F. Call, 1868?

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Pics of Texas Rangers before 1870 are pretty rare but this is Texas Rangers James Thomas Bird (left) and John J. Haynes in 1868. And just like in the prequel leading up to Lonesome Dove, Bird & Haynes spent most of their days fighting the Comanche Indians.

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The hat is very much like a planter's hat of the 1840's or so.

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Good post Jack! I enjoy the old gunfighter and lawmen photos, and information about them.

 

[BobHufford]

Captain Augustus McCrae & Captain Woodrow F. Call, 1868?

It almost looks like the actors for Lonesome Dove were cast from this photo. Very cool Jack.

 

[Zombie_61]

Captain Augustus McCrae & Captain Woodrow F. Call, 1868?

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"Call and McCrae: The Early Days".

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"Call and McCrae: The Early Days".

I remember you've never watched the mini series or a video, not a fan. I get that. If you ever change your mind you should start with reading the 2 prequels in order, then Lonesome Dove & finally the sequel. That's different from the order they were written, but the way someone who has never watched first should read them.

 

[Zombie_61]

I remember you've never watched the mini series or a video, not a fan. I get that. If you ever change your mind you should start with reading the 2 prequels in order, then Lonesome Dove & finally the sequel. That's different from the order they were written, but the way someone who has never watched first should read them.

It's not that I'm not a fan, I've just not had (or taken) an opportunity to watch or read any of the Lonesome Dove material. I'll probably get around to it one of these days, but for the foreseeable future my life is going to be rather complicated and free time will be almost nonexistent.

 

[hatophile]

It almost looks like the actors for Lonesome Dove were cast from this photo. Very cool Jack.

The guy on the left looks like a young Tommy Lee.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Ken Curtis. I only knew his as Festus on Gunsmoke. Today I learned that he was the one-time lead singer for The Sons of the Pioneers. I can remember my dad listing to that music, but confess I’m only vaguely familiar with it.

Prior to The Sons of the Pioneers, he was with the Tommy Dorsey Band where he succeeded Frank Sinatra. Now I want to find his recordings because all I can hear in my mind is Festus’ voice.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Harry Wheeler, last Captain of the Arizona Rangers when they were disbanded in 1908. Went on to be Sheriff of Cochise county but said to take a dim view of the law & walk both sides of the line after what had happened to the Rangers.

 

[Zombie_61]

Ken Curtis. I only knew his as Festus on Gunsmoke. Today I learned that he was the one-time lead singer for The Sons of the Pioneers. I can remember my dad listing to that music, but confess I’m only vaguely familiar with it...Prior to The Sons of the Pioneers, he was with the Tommy Dorsey Band where he succeeded Frank Sinatra. Now I want to find his recordings because all I can hear in my mind is Festus’ voice.

I haven't seen Mr. Curtis in too many things other than Gunsmoke, but he has a smallish role in Mister Roberts (1955) as "Dolan" and in The Searchers (1956) as "Charlie McCorry". The thing is, without the stubble beard and the hat pushing his ears out he looks surprisingly different, and his speaking and singing voice is quite a bit lower than his "Festus" voice.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Morgan Seth Earp (1851-1882)

Louisa A. Houston Earp, wife of Morgan

 

[hatophile]

I haven't seen Mr. Curtis in too many things other than Gunsmoke, but he has a smallish role in Mister Roberts (1955) as "Dolan" and in The Searchers (1956) as "Charlie McCorry". The thing is, without the stubble beard and the hat pushing his ears out he looks surprisingly different, and his speaking and singing voice is quite a bit lower than his "Festus" voice.

Check out "The Horse Soldiers" with John Wayne. Ken Curtis is in there, also Denver Pyle (Pa Darling) and Hoot Gibson.