CTH3 OFFICIAL SITE FOR THE HUNT.

[Cynangyl]

just think, the days are going by quicker now

Not quicker enough! lol

 

[sniffer]

hold your horses it's getting here

 

[Burdie]

I just found out that the super 8 in Blackwell has only 7 rooms available for that weekend.

You might check out Motel 6 it is the closest to the hunt. The Caldwell motel is open again I believe Greg573 stayed there. Nothing special but he might be able to tell you more.

Burdie

 

[gregd573]

Stayed there at the first hunt (CTH) and found it to be clean and a place to lay your head down. I would stay there again......but I am actually thinking about this whole camping out thing. So who all is camping out?

HH all,
Gregd573

 

[Juanmoretime]

Greg,

All the cool people are camping out!!!! Is that a good answer?? You just show up to camp and I bet you get surprised. It'll look like the old West with the wagons circled up with a fire in the middle!!!

Steve

 

[Juanmoretime]

I may come by rail in my speeder!!!

 

[Cynangyl]

there ya go...the tracks go right by the meeting hall....we can just roll out as it goes by and be at camp! lol

 

[Mental Granny]

Good night all ! I have a special pic for in the morning hope you all will like it!

 

[Cynangyl]

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[warsawdaddy]

All the festivities except the cattle drive?Well,not to worry!I will bring my shotgun and drive Burdie,Sniffer,Jaunmoretime,Jeff up main street and RiverRat,get ready,each time I fire over their heads, put your bet down fast on the plop drop.

 

[warsawdaddy]

When does the festivities in town start?Weren't they on friday the last time?

 

[Mental Granny]

DOWN TO 2 DIGITS ONLY 99!
Father I pray that we all have a safe trip to be togeather PLEASE be with all our friends!

 

[River Rat]

Chisholm Trail Festival

Start: 05/07/2010
End: 05/08/2010

A Western movie would be far too polite to portray the likes of a Kansas cowtown. Caldwell of the past was home to gunslingers, cowboys, prostitutes, Indians, saloon keepers, and criminals. Life was hard on the trail and in the towns. Caldwell especially was rougher, tougher, and meaner in the vilest way.

The money-hungry businessmen of Wichita founded our great city by the opportunities that lie in this Border Queen City-the first stop north of Indian Territory. The shortage of beef in the northeast after the Civil War coupled with the five million head of Texas cattle with no railroads on which to ship began the era of the long cattle drive and the Kansas cowtowns.

Gambling, drinking, prostitution, and dance halls began to take its toll on numerous local marshals. No one could tame this town! Violence claimed sixteen marshals between 1879 and 1885 and led a Wichita editor to write, "As we go to press, hell is again in session in Caldwell." Cowboys were young-late teens to early twenties and single. Once said, a "cowboy" was "anyone with guts and a horse." Life on the trail was harsh and celebrating at the end of the trail was sometimes harsher. Whiskey, guns and ammunition were a recipe for calamity!

Though our rough and tumble town has given way to peaceful farmland and golden waves of wheat, we celebrate our birth as a cowtown with the annual Chisholm Trail Festival to be held May 2, 2009.

Downtown Caldwell
No Admission fee for Festival

Contact: LuAnn - 620.845.6444 for more information.

Event details will be available closer to date.

http://www.caldwellkansas.com/events/node/24

 

[godisnum1]

T-Mobile does not get a signal either.You can't use anything except smoke out there.

Nah, I've got Verizon and I'm pretty positive that I had a signal... though I believe it was a small one. I do remember calling my mom while we were at lunch in town one day...

And granted that I'm able to actually get all the way up there from Florida for the hunt, I'll intend on camping out as well.

Bran <><

 

[warsawdaddy]

Two things:
(1) If you want to see the festivities,be there early on friday because you'll be huntin' on saturday.

(2) Is that camping area where the 'cow chip'throw contest is held?

(3)I can't count - Where will the 'chip' throw be ?Can't wait to see Gypsy,Johnny Ringo,TC,Bran go at it again,and ,of course,our new people also,right JDS? I'm betting on Chey this year.

 

[Juanmoretime]

WSD, the camping area in the picture is not the cow chip throwing area. This is next to the parking lot, when you sat on the porch of the main building smoking, it was straight out in front of you next to the cattle bldg. We metal detected there the first afternoon we arrived just to warm up. You can't get much closer to the main bldg where everything is happening than this place!! Down the hill in the back is where we hunted last year and had the fire!

Steve

 

[Mental Granny]

CHIPS>>> The last 3 don't have names under them but, they are Burdie, Mo and Gypsy!

 

[Mental Granny]

More.....

 

[Monty]

I just phoned AAA and they said Travel Inn and Best Western in Blackwell, OK give a AAA discount. Super 8 doesn't . Just info to pass along. Monty

 

[Burdie]

Stoney check the liquore cabnit I think Granny got in it or I missunderstood who is in what picture.

Burdie