Cowboy Gospeler
@CowboyGospeler
California family since 1866. My grandpa was a cowboy outta Eufaula, Oklahoma.
My Okie grandpa said the San Joaquin Valley reminded him of home. I always thought it looked more like parts of Texas.
KA/OK Stateline
No one should fear death. I know, because I have come face to face with death several times. It is really a pleasant experience. You seem to hear beautiful music and everything is mellow and sweet and serene; no struggle, no terror, just calmness and beauty. ⏤Eddie Rickenbacker
Wyatt Earp was the referee of the 1896 Fitzsimmons–Sharkey fight. Bob Fitzsimmons landed a clean punch to the solar plexus, Sharkey fell. But Earp ruled it a foul and awarded the fight to Sharkey. Some believed the fight was fixed and that Earp had been paid off.
Out yonder, the wind talks more than any man, and the stars say little. ⏤Eugene Manlove Rhodes
How the Indians were given their names in Frontier Days (1928)
Cleveland named their baseball team the “Indians” in 1915 to honor Indian player, Louis Sockalexis, one of the first Indians to play pro ball. This was never mentioned when the white liberals forced the organization to change the name.
Neapolitan box ice cream was already making the rounds in the 1880s US, even in Wild West boomtowns with ice delivery. So geezers like Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, probably cooled off with a striped brick of Neapolitan in silver-rich Tombstone.
Impossible to escape the feeling that Neapolitan Ice cream is the ice cream of geezers
Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an easy life. ⏤Theodore Roosevelt
The mesa spread out like a sea of grass, and we moved the herd slow, letting them graze as they went. ⏤Andy Adams (1903)
This is the gravesite, sacred ground, of Davy Crockett, James Bowie, William B. Travis, Albert Martin, James McGee and 245 other Americans last stand. It's not Disneyland. The bones of the defenders are the cement of our independence. ⏤Sam Houston
Pee-wee Herman’s iconic red bicycle to be permanently displayed at the Alamo trib.al/p6hWGlf
I’ve been wanting to watch Two Flags West, but it’s not on any streaming service, and the only DVDs out there seem to be bootlegs on eBay.
Mission Santa Inés in Solvang, named after St. Agnes of Rome. It is one of the oldest surviving structures in the state of California.
As I am becoming an old man, I understand the sadness grandad felt visiting these places from the past. I understand the nature of looking back far into the past, realizing you are ghost walking, those days have long passed on the river of time, never to return. ⏤Michael Untiedt
Saturday Night Cowboy Dance in Birney, Montana (1941)
Sheriff John Slaughter and Chacon the Mexican Bandit (1928)
Too many Christians live like Buddhists: emptying themselves of desire, longing to escape the world, and thinking the goal is just to be nice.
Take good care of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds ⏤Proverbs 27:23
My third great-grandpa, John Bonham Kester Jr., came to California in 1866. His trail west ran from Indiana, Iowa, down to Texas, finally to the California. He settled as a rancher in Morro Bay, where he lived out his days, died in 1921, age of 91. His father was a Kentuckian.
