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Volume 2, Issue No. 10                                                                                                                                   October  2004

 COLORFUL LEAVES & COWGIRLS & COWBOYS HIGHLIGHT OCTOBER SHOOT October was a terrific shoot.  The weather was great, the leaves were colorful, and so were the shooters.  How so?  Well, Linc and Cool Waters, Horseshoe John and T-Bone showed up decked out in colorful shirts.  Owlhoot Hardin, not to be up staged, went back to his vehicle and came back wrapped in a colorful blanket that would have put a Navajo Indian to shame – almost. Then Dandy Diamond showed her contribution to fall’s colors: her new shootin’ irons with purple grips. Well, they looked purple to the camera feller. They worked just fine.  She placed 1st in the Cowgirl category. T-Bone added a bit of color to the props:  he constructed 2 range cowboys to spiff up the range, and they looked real good.

 How was the shootin’?  Shucks, shootin’s always great, it’s just sometimes greater than other times. 62 shooters played the game, among which were 7 cowgirls. Carolina Gem chose not to shoot as a cowgirl this time:  she shot Gunfighter to challenge Pleasant and the boys.  She came in 3rd as a Gunfighter. Pleasant was 1st.  Ocoee Red and Marshall Too Tall have been tradin’ digs lately in the shoots they attend, trading 1st place positions in the 49er category.  This time, Ocoee Red came out 1st in the category.  Linc, in addition to sportin’ new duds, won the Senior category.  Lightning McCoy and Deadfoot shot it out for 1st place in the Classic category, and Lightning won. Awful Close won the

The Ocoee Ranger, October 2004

Dandy Diamond, cowgirl shooter, shows 1 of her shootin’ irons.

Modern Category, and Horseshoe John was 1st among the Duelists.  Amongst all the smoke, it was hard to tell if there was a winner in the Black Powder group.  Dead Beat was ready to claim the honors for besting the field, but T-Bone captured that honor.  Was there any other shootin’ of consequence?  … Oh yeah.  Cruel Hand Luke was TOP GUN and winner of the Traditional group. The shootin’ results are on page 3, if you read that far.

Out on the Range  –  R.I.P. Overland’s Posse

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L-R Kneeling: Long Gulch, Unpleasant, R.I.P. Overland, Pleasant, Diamondback Dennis. Standing Middle Row: Roma Jane, Carolina Gem, T-Bone’s cowboy, Bronco Ed, Dandy Diamond.  Back Row: Yukon Hootch, Baby Bull (hiding behind Carolina Gem), Loose Cinch, Pyro (hiding behind his Foster Grants … for you young cowboys & cowgirls that means sunglasses)

NEXT SHOOT – NOVEMBER 27  

Buffalo Shoot begins at 8:00  ….  Registration begins 8:15 am  …..  Tabasco JOT’s Side Match begins 8:30 am (you must register before you shoot the side match – no additional charge for side match)  –   Posse Leader’s walk through 9:30 am …..  Safety Meeting & pervious month’s awards presented 10:00 am  ….  Then we Shoot!

…………………………………………………

The Ocoee Ranger, October 2004

3rd Annual Shoot-Out at Pigeon Forge Feb 24th – 26th, sponsored by the Knoxville Cowboys & Cowgirls.  For more information contact www.SMSSGazette.com or ask Tennessee Tombstone about it at our next Ocoee Rangers shoot.


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The Ocoee Ranger page 2                                                                                                                             October, 2004

The Reel West – Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone began her movie career at age 22, when she played a girl on a train.  She did assorted small parts in movies, on TV, modeled, and then she got her biggest role to that time.  She played Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife in TOTAL RECALL, a futuristic action movie.  In 1992, she took off her clothes on the screen and became a superstar in BASIC INSTINCT.  But who cares about all this stuff!  The important thing is that she became big enough to make movies with her clothes on and made enough money that in 1995, she pretended to be Clint Eastwood and produced and starred in her 1st Western movie, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.  In that role, she was an Eastwoodish, female gunfighter, and she looked terrific in her cowgirl duds.  Like Eastwood in his UNFORGIVEN, she had Gene Hackman as the villain, and like Eastwood, she shot him at the end of the picture and then rode away.  Her character’s name was Ellen.

The Ocoee Ranger, October 2004

Sharon Stone

The Ocoee Ranger, October 2004

Rawhide Rex

The West of Our Imagination – Rawhide Rex

Rawhide Rex has been shooting since the ripe old age of …. Well, here’s how he described it.  “I bought my 1st gun in 1999. Now, I are an expert.  That’s also when I started Cowboy Shooting.” How did he choose his alias?  “I got my name from the show.”  Of course this word-scratcher asked, “Which show was that?”  Ol’ Rex looked in disbelief and said, “Rawhide. Sponge Bob Square Pants hadn’t been released yet.”  What does he shoot? “I shoot .45’s, because they don’t make .65’s.”  He shoots 2 real colts, with 7 ½ inch barrels, packed in genuine Curly Bill holsters. 

When asked if there was anything else that should be included, ol’ Rex said, “I’ve been married to the same ol’ woman for 30 years, and I’m only 37.  We were 18 and 19.  And my son is Legislative Director for the state of North Carolina.” Then, Rex posed for this picture.  He’s a cowboy who’s proud of his family, his hardware, his cowboy image and his hobby.  Simply stated, he’s a good cowboy. That’s why he’s

featured here. Cowgirls love good cowboys …. or so I’ve been told.

The Real West – Ellen Watson

Ellen Watson was born in Canada in 1861, but her family immigrated to Kansas.  Ellen’s father was a farmer, and she grew up in a family of 10 children. She was the oldest of the kids, and 10 children eat a lot.  So when she was about 16, her parents sent her off to work as a cook and housekeeper for a local banker.  Ellen became a good cook and housekeeper, a skill that was to come in handy. 

In 1879, 18 years old Ellen married William Pickell.  After they were married, she learned what many of the locals already knew about Bill Pickell:  he drank, and when he did he was mean and abusive.  About 2 years later, Ellen fled the marriage, after Bill beat her with a whip.  She worked in the area as a cook and domestic and later moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska, where she worked as a cook and domestic at the Royal Hotel. While there, she divorced Pickell.

In 1886, Ellen Watson married James Averell.  Jim was a homesteader, an appointed Postmaster and Justice of the Peace in the Sweetwater valley, WY.  Because a married couple could have only 1 homestead, they didn’t advertise the marriage, and Ellen, then

The Ocoee Ranger, October 2004

Ellen Watson

called Ella, lived about 2 miles from Jim on her 160 acre homestead which adjoined his.  Their land was in the flats and straddled and controlled a creek that watered the meadow, formerly part of the public domain, that a local rancher, Albert J. Bothwell, considered his hay meadow. Averell operated a road ranch and farmed.  At his road ranch, he had a general store, sold beer, and provided lodging to passing travelers.  He did not deal in cattle.  Ella fenced in 60 acres at her cabin, where she pastured footsore cattle that she had bought from travelers on the Oregon Trail, which passed nearby.  With calves, she had about 40 head of cattle. To help her work her place, she had taken in 2 boys whose family situations were less than favorable for raising kids:  1 was 11 and the other was 14.

On the afternoon of July 20, 1889, Albert Bothwell and 5 other ranchers went to Ella’s homestead and at gunpoint put her in a buggy, went to Averell’s homestead and repeated the process, then drove them 5 miles away and hung them from a pine tree.  The stranglers tied a rope around each of their necks and pushed them off a rock that was about a foot above ground level.  Neither their hands nor feet were tied.  There they kicked and choked until they died.

Soon, a telegram was sent to Cheyenne, where a newspaper reporter combined the lives of Ella Wilson, a 40ish year old prostitute who had been wounded in a shootout in a house of prostitution at Ft. Fetterman, and that of 28 year old Ellen Watson.  Ellen Watson was 28 years old, 5 ft. 8 in. tall and weighed about 165 lbs.  Ella Wilson was thin, short, age 40ish and a sure enough soiled dove. He created a mythical story about “Cattle Kate” Watson, prostitute and hard riding cattle rustler who cussed her lynchers with her last breath.  Other papers picked up the tale, and an innocent young woman became a notorious prostitute and cattle thief.  The legend was created, and with printing, it became widely accepted as truth.  And as the editor said in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE, when the legend becomes truth, print the legend, and many people have printed and accepted the legend as fact.

Ellen’s father came to settle her affairs, although Bothwell had already reclaimed the land.  During his stay, he heard all the rubbish about his daughter, believed it, returned home, threw away anything that was a reminder of Ellen, and refused to allow anyone in the family to mention her for the remainder of his life.  None of his daughter’s killers were ever tried.  25 years later, the US government sued Bothwell and the person to whom he had recently sold his ranch.  It seems that in amassing “his” ranch, Bothwell had illegally fenced off 30,000 acres of the public domain and sold it to the new owner.

Ellen’s 6 murders each died millionaires.  She died abused in life and in death, guilty only of pursuing her dream to become a legal owner of western land.  This is the tragic story of Ellen Watson, who never was “Cattle Kate”.

To learn more about Ellen Watson’s story, read THE WYOMING LYNCHING OF CATTLE KATE 1889, by George W. Hufsmith.


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The Ocoee Ranger Page 3                                                                                                                              October  2004

WRANGLERS – OCTOBER Wranglers are special people who have been recognized for showing extra initiative and spirit of the game  in helping to successfully conduct our monthly shoots.

The Ocoee Ranger, October 2004

Ben Shot

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Bronco Ed

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Hombre Sin Nombre

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Fiddleback

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TN Tombstone

No photo available

Beretta Blue

No photo available

Trigger

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TN Bounty Hunter

  SHOOT RESULTS  (continued from page 1)

Top Gun  –  Cruel Hand Luke

TOP 10 SHOOTERS:  1. Cruel Hand Luke   2. Diamondback Dennis          3.  Ocoee Red  4.  Marshal Too Tall  5.  Pleasant   6. Unpleasant               7.  Double Eagle   8.  Baby Bull    9.  Whiskey River Nelson  10.  Festus D. Deputy

Traditional

1. Cruel Hand Luke

2. Diamondback Dennis

3. Whiskey River Nelson

Cowgirl

1. Dandy Diamond

2. Roma Jane

3. Last Kiss

Modern

1. Awful Close

2. Sundance McNeyman

3. Moonshine Robert

Senior

1. Linc

2. Hombre Sin Nombre

3. Sheriff Donald

49er

1. Ocoee Red

2. Marshal Too Tall

3. Double Eagle

Gunfighter

1. Pleasant

2. Unpleasant

3. Carolina Gem

Black Powder

1. T-Bone Angus

2. Catoosa Kid

Duelist

1. Horseshoe John

2. Owlhoot Hardin

3. Tucson Tuco

Classic

1.  Lightning McCoy

No Miss Match

Whiskey River Nelson … Hombre Sin Nombre … Deadman … Pleasant

OCOEE RANGERS CHRISTMAS SHOOT & FAMILY EVENT  –  DEC 18

Don’t forget, our annual Christmas shoot & family event will be held December 18th.  We’ll have a 4-stage shoot at the regular time, then go to lunch at the Golden Corral in Cleveland.  So far, gracious vendors have contributed several door/trail prizes to give away in a random drawing at the luncheon event.  Cowboys & Cowgirls who choose to do so can bring an unwrapped gift, not to exceed an approximate value of $10 to $15, to put in a bag for a cowboy drawing among participants who want to trade gifts.  It’s a fun event, but if you don’t want to participate in this part of the whing-ding, it ain’t required and won’t be noticed.

FRIENDLY VENDORS & contributors FOR OUR 2004 EVENT are: SHOOT MAGAZINETRUE WEST MAGAZINE;  SADDLEBAG BULLETS CO.  (COOL WATERS);  CALLICO LASSIE –Ladies Victorian and Old West Accoutrements & Accessories;  THE BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM in Cartersville, GA;   HAMILTON DRY GOODS in Cookeville, TN;   JAXONBILT HAT COMPANY  in Salmon, Idaho;  TEXAS JACK’S OLD WEST OURFITTERS in Fredericksburg, TX;  HORSESHOE JOHN;  MESQUITE MILLIE & DEADMAN  … and maybe others.  It’s still early

Friendly vendors & contributors in our 2003 event are as follows – Don’t forget them.  Accurate Arms  …  www.accruatepowder.com ; Ajax Custom Grips  … www.AJAXGRIPS.com  ; Benton Shooters Supply, Benton, TN  ;  Big Nose Kate’s Saloon – Tombstone, AZ   www.bignosekate.com  ;  Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA ; Desperado Cowboy Bullets … www.cowboybullets.com ;  Eagle Grips – www.eaglegrips.com ; Hodgdon Powder  …  www.hodgdon.com  ;  Outlaw Enterprises, Inc. … 7461 E RD 260, Scott City, KS 67871  www.ridetheoutlawtrail.com ; River Junction Trade Co.  www.riverjunction.com  ;  Ruger Arms Co.   www.ruger.com  ; Saddlebag Bullets (Cool Waters) … 256-776-4909  (Cool Waters) ;  Shoot Magazine www.ShootMagazine.com  ; Starline Brass   www.starlinebrass.com  ;  True West Magazine … www.TrueWestMagazine.com

Don’t forget.  Support these great vendors who are supporting us and those who supported us last year when you buy cowboy or cowgirl products, or when you have other people put things on your Christmas list.  They help us, so please help them.

OCOEE RANGER SHOOTERS AT ALABAMA STATE SHOOT

If Horseshoe John lived in Alabama, he’d be the Alabama CAS state champion Sr. Duelist.  He placed 1st in that category during the Alabama State Cowboy Action Shooting Shoot. Cool Waters also performed well:  he placed 15th overall and shot a match with no misses.  All totaled, 14 Knoxville – Cleveland CAS shooters participated in the Alabama State Shoot, and 15 participated in the Tennessee State Shoot. Other shooters were Pleasant, Unpleasant, Pyro, Owlhoot Hardin, Ocoee Red, Marshal Too Tall, and others that this old feller can’t remember. 


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The Ocoee Ranger  page 4                                                                                                                              October 2004 Ocoee Ranger October Shoot Results

Alias

CL

S-1

R-1

S-2

R-2

S-3

R-3

S-4

R-4

S-5

R-5

OS

OR

OT

Miss

CS

Cruel Hand Luke

T

29.47

1

35.72

5

44.16

2

27.42

3

23.25

2

13

1

160.02

2

3

Diamondback Dennis

T

37.75

8

34.88

4

39.32

1

19.86

1

19.78

1

15

2

151.59

6

2

Ocoee Red

49er

34.23

2

37.41

7

49.05

3

34.56

7

32.16

10

29

3

187.41

1

4

Marshal Too Tall

49er

35.06

3

24.68

1

55.21

8

27.40

2

38.15

18

32

4

180.50

1

4

Pleasant

GF

35.39

5

40.40

12

58.72

9

34.34

6

24.95

4

36

5

193.80

0

5

Unpleasant

GF

41.49

10

36.57

6

54.13

7

34.80

8

31.78

9

40

6

198.77

4

2

Double Eagle

49er

35.55

6

40.65

13

60.31

12

34.86

9

24.65

3

43

7

196.02

2

3

Baby Bull

49er

42.40

11

42.68

15

52.81

5

30.98

5

28.95

7

43

8

197.82

4

3

Whiskey River Nelson

T

35.11

4

38.28

8

59.99

11

43.33

14

28.73

6

43

9

205.44

0

5

Festus D. Deputy

T

37.17

7

39.45

10

58.92

10

42.11

13

33.28

12

52

10

210.93

2

3

Red Neckerson

T

44.99

17

39.90

11

62.41

13

37.69

10

25.15

5

56

11

210.14

3

3

Dandy Diamond

F

47.93

24

34.67

3

50.62

4

49.65

19

38.39

19

69

12

221.26

8

1

Horseshoe John

D

46.72

21

44.60

16

64.54

14

39.39

11

42.23

27

89

13

237.48

4

2

Long Gulch

49er

39.80

9

45.24

19

69.93

18

54.98

26

39.66

22

94

14

249.61

5

1

Owlhoot Hardin

D

46.35

20

49.73

25

75.02

25

45.87

15

32.42

11

96

15

249.39

1

4

Carolina Gem

GF

43.76

14

53.85

32

53.41

6

64.30

40

33.61

13

105

16

248.93

2

3

Fiddleback

T

60.88

43

34.24

2

69.37

16

47.84

17

42.85

28

106

17

255.18

10

1

Awful Close

M

47.28

22

40.88

14

88.20

35

58.12

31

31.11

8

110

18

265.59

5

2

TN Ted

49er

52.25

33

49.48

24

69.86

17

50.13

21

37.54

16

111

19

259.26

1

4

Linc

Sr

45.32

19

52.12

30

70.62

20

39.49

12

45.12

31

112

20

252.67

4

2

Pyro

GF

48.97

25

48.59

21

73.70

24

48.54

18

40.65

25

113

21

260.45

12

0

Beretta Blue

T

43.89

15

62.75

41

71.93

22

46.06

16

38.90

20

114

22

263.53

11

0

Tucson Tuco

D

45.20

18

48.60

22

71.99

23

57.93

29

39.81

23

115

23

263.53

1

4

Tarheel

T

44.31

16

48.96

23

92.04

40

55.23

27

36.52

15

121

24

277.06

3

3

Ricochet Richard

D

57.20

37

51.56

28

70.65

21

51.15

23

37.71

17

126

25

268.27

5

1

T-Bone Angus

BPC

43.46

13

47.21

20

82.35

32

52.22

24

53.71

42

131

26

278.95

4

2

Loose Cinch

GF

47.48

23

38.29

9

95.63

42

57.98

30

44.84

29

133

27

284.22

13

1

Lightning McCoy

CL

58.60

39

44.92

18

80.11

29

50.22

22

40.84

26

134

28

274.69

4

2

Hombre Sin Nombre

Sr

53.51

34

56.99

34

78.35

27

54.54

25

36.10

14

134

29

279.49

0

5

Ranger Roger

D

49.31

27

44.61

17

69.34

15

69.16

43

48.27

34

136

30

280.69

4

1

TN Tombstone

GF

42.78

12

61.70

40

70.39

19

64.24

39

45.06

30

140

31

284.17

6

1

Catoosa Kid

BPC

48.98

26

49.90

26

81.44

30

49.74

20

49.44

39

141

32

279.50

4

2

Ruckus Roy

T

50.11

28

52.10

29

96.24

44

61.31

38

40.58

24

163

33

300.34

1

4

RIP Overland

GF

50.74

29

57.20

35

112.08

52

59.46

34

39.26

21

171

34

318.74

8

1

Purly

49er

55.67

36

60.62

38

80.08

28

58.85

33

50.35

40

175

35

305.57

4

2

Fast Harley

D

59.11

42

71.71

47

81.96

31

56.93

28

48.36

35

183

36

318.07

7

1

Sundance McNeyman

M

51.68

31

52.67

31

84.20

34

83.27

53

49.27

38

187

37

321.09

3

3

Deadman

T

58.35

38

53.99

33

104.95

50

60.45

36

49.11

37

194

38

326.85

0

5

Yukon Hootch

D

58.62

40

61.64

39

89.26

36

60.94

37

55.16

45

197

39

325.62

2

3

Sheriff Donald

Sr

58.98

41

51.15

27

98.90

46

68.22

42

53.71

42

198

40

330.96

8

2

Squire Shooter

49er

50.99

30

67.00

43

89.90

38

73.54

47

52.19

41

199

41

333.62

9

1

Polecat Carl

D

51.95

32

71.04

46

104.79

49

58.45

32

55.79

49

208

42

342.02

5

2

Moonshine Robert

M

54.43

35

68.94

44

104.22

47

74.08

48

49.06

36

210

43

350.73

4

2

Roma Jane

F

65.10

47

60.01

37

89.99

39

87.50

56

46.03

33

212

44

348.63

6

1

Bronco Ed

D

71.45

49

63.32

42

75.27

26

70.08

45

59.32

53

215

45

339.44

10

1

Widow Maker

GF

74.10

50

70.83

45

83.69

33

60.27

35

60.23

54

217

46

349.12

19

0

Tin Pot

Sr

60.88

43

59.84

36

114.55

53

79.88

51

55.61

48

231

47

370.76

6

0

Wildcat Wilkey

Sr

76.08

53

82.43

53

114.64

54

64.50

41

45.46

32

233

48

383.11

7

2

Casino Jones

D

62.35

45

78.32

52

104.57

48

75.27

49

55.17

46

240

49

375.68

5

0

Colonel Allison

M

94.68

60

94.19

61

158.87

59

28.71

4

69.84

56

240

50

446.29

2

3

Colonel Mortimer

49er

76.39

54

74.52

48

97.04

45

69.46

44

59.12

52

243

51

376.53

11

0

TN Mongo

49er

77.51

55

89.71

56

96.17

43

77.80

50

53.93

44

248

52

395.12

5

1

Last Kiss

F

68.10

48

83.39

55

93.77

41

80.81

52

78.34

57

253

53

404.41

15

0

Deadeye Daisy

F

93.46

59

82.92

54

110.84

51

70.81

46

55.19

47

257

54

413.22

8

2

TN Bounty Hunter

T

64.19

46

74.91

50

125.59

56

93.16

57

58.98

51

260

55

416.83

8

1

Slingin Dunn

T

83.63

57

77.20

51

121.58

55

84.60

54

56.32

50

267

56

423.33

5

2

Trigger

T

79.10

56

92.75

59

89.88

37

99.34

59

80.55

58

269

57

441.62

20

1

Dead Beat

BPC

76.04

52

74.68

49

144.80

58

87.28

55

63.61

55

269

58

446.41

6

1

Ben Shot

Sr

75.71

51

91.75

58

141.59

57

96.34

58

80.77

59

283

59

486.16

5

2

Deadfoot

CL

92.07

58

90.54

57

226.57

62

140.90

62

101.93

61

300

60

652.01

2

3

Two Dogs Runnin

F

104.31

61

93.05

60

202.97

61

107.62

60

120.54

62

304

61

628.49

13

0

Yogo Blue

F

105.53

62

128.88

62

166.87

60

115.74

61

101.73

60

305

62

618.75

2

3

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