Show us their hats!

[Hurricane Jack]

HJ, I don’t. I ran across this pic researching something else and thought it interesting. I read up a little after finding the pic. He served two terms as sheriff and a couple term in the KS legislature I believe. He also started the Dodge City Cowboy Band.
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Interesting, his ribbon is different than other members of the band. Most wear the round badge on ribbon.

 

[Bamaboots]

Interesting, his ribbon is different than other members of the band. Most wear the round badge on ribbon.

Good eye, I didn’t notice that. What I did notice was that quite a few in the band were heeled. No booing or throwing of objects allowed.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

What I did notice was that quite a few in the band were heeled. No booing or throwing of objects allowed.

Maybe they played the Birdcage Saloon.

 

[RBH]

Palm Beach County Sheriff Bob Baker who finally got his man, John Ashley in 1924.
I watched an episode of LAWMEN about Sheriff Baker on AHC. Pretty cool man and story.

 

[Bamaboots]

I watched an episode of LAWMEN about Sheriff Baker on AHC. Pretty cool man and story.

Saw that as well, Rusty. Very cool.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Interesting...

Lots of Shepherd descendants still in these parts. Since you were interested:

George W. Shepherd (1840 - 1917)

George W. Shepherd (undated), purchased from his descendants by a collector in the 1940's. During the war he obtained the rank of Capt under Quantrill. Post war he was a member of the James gang & captured at Russellvill, serving prison time after which Jesse never trusted him (which may have contributed to the killing of Ike Flannery). He died in 1917.

Post War dated 1866, on his horse Gus. Taken at Sni-A-Bar Township.

Taken for identification purposes at courthouse on change of venue issue, March 1868. Some 20 months before the killing of Jim Anderson.

Mattie Sanders Maddox Shepherd (pre-war pic 1857-1858). During the war she dressed as a man, "Matt Sanders" & rode along with her first husband Richard "Dick" Maddox. When Maddox was killed by a Cherokee Indian soon after the war was over, she married George Shepherd.

 

[hatophile]

Palm Beach County Sheriff Bob Baker who finally got his man, John Ashley in 1924.
I watched an episode of LAWMEN about Sheriff Baker on AHC. Pretty cool man and story.

My parents were both raised in St Lucie County which is about 2 counties north of Palm Beach and just north of Stuart.
When I was younger, I met some old-timers who were kids growing up in the days of the Ashley Gang, one old fellow remembered seeing them around the county. Another family friend, Ada Coats Williams wrote a small book about the Ashley Gang:
https://indianriverstore.com/Floridas-Ashley-Gang-by-Ada-Coats-Williams-FCLS0001.htm
There is a book written by Hix Stuart, I believe on of the deputies, published in the 20s shortly after all this occurred. I managed to get a copy from Ebay. Laura Upthegrove was John Ashley's paramour, she had a rather tragic story and ending: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Upthegrove

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Roger Stone
(No politics, just admiring his hats)

 

[itsallgood]

1918

 

[BobHufford]

Justin (@splintercellsz ) is apparently a time traveler (and was a family man).

 

[BobHufford]

A hero to many ...

A 1954 color slide of R. F. Coosie in Flagstaff, Arizona. Mr. Coosie, a camp cook, invented insulated beverage covers in the late 1930s. He wanted a way to keep his beer at a comfortable drinking temperature during the long cattle drives in the desert.

 

[Frunobulax]

A hero to many ...

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A 1954 color slide of R. F. Coosie in Flagstaff, Arizona. Mr. Coosie, a camp cook, invented insulated beverage covers in the late 1930s. He wanted a way to keep his beer at a comfortable drinking temperature during the long cattle drives in the desert.

Thanks for teaching me something new, Bob! I always thought calling them "coozie" was just an appropriation of the word "cozy."

Not all heroes wear capes.

 

[BobHufford]

The guy in the back in the lighter colored western hat might be a time travelling @Michael R.

Men with a 1 3/4 HP Sticky engine. Higginsville, Missouri. Circa 1916. Photo by Algert T. Peterson.

 

[BobHufford]

Good to see you swinging by for curb-side-pickup from the Lounge @Hurricane Jack ! Hope you are finding ways to relax on your vacation.

Man playing billiards in Columbia, Missouri. Circa 1903. Unknown photographer.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Harlyn Geronimo, great grandson of the legendary Apache Chief Geronimo.

1994

A few yrs ago when he sued Yale's Skull & Bones Society

The great Chief

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Hope you are finding ways to relax on your vacation.

Thanks Bob. Been trying to reorganize my home bar a little bit.

Just kiddin'!

 

[Rmccamey]

I watched an old 50's/early 60's production of the Grande Ole Opry a few weeks back and noticed that when Earnest Tubb took his hat off, the brim rolled up in his hand like a burrito! And when he put it back on, it rolled right back out to it's original shape.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I watched an old 50's/early 60's production of the Grande Ole Opry a few weeks back and noticed that when Earnest Tubb took his hat off, the brim rolled up in his hand like a burrito! And when he put it back on, it rolled right back out to it's original shape.

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If only they still made felt like that.

 

[M Hatman]

Circa 1920 or so......boys having fun, in hats!! The origional ""Neighborhood Watch"!!
(In real life this image is crisp and clean, unfortunately it is in a origional tin frame I would damage if i tried to remove it from behind the glass)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Twin sisters Etheyle (Eth-eel?) and Juanita Parry performed with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in the early 1900s and later with the Barnum & Bailey’s circus.

Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" Cannary