THE CHISHOLM TRAIL HUNT

Tin Nugget · Jul 29, 2007

YOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO

Getting closer

Gypsy Heart · Jul 30, 2007

Caldwell was a tad rough and the saloon perhaps rougher. One resident complained of the Red Light saloon:

The scenes there presented reminded me of the early times in Cheyenne, when murcer ran riot and the pistol was the only argument.

Outside of Caldwell was a hill where the damsels would maintain a lookout for the trail herds coming toward town. Thus with warning, the saloons and girls could get ready for the expected rush of business. Caldwell in its first three years went through nine town marshals, several having met their Maker near the saloon. On June 22, 1882, the town's tenth marshal was killed in the Red Light Saloon. With the killing of Marshal George S. Brown, Caldwell had enough of the saloon. The proprietor and proprietress of the saloon, George and Maggie Wood, found it expedient to leave town. As the town residents were bidding the Woods farewell, the saloon mysteriously caught fire and burned down.

Gypsy Heart · Jul 30, 2007

pics

Downtown Caldwell c. 1885. In the top photo we are looking east
on Fifth from Market
Bottom: We’re looking north on Main from
below Sixth Street.

Burdie · Jul 30, 2007

Neat Photos Gypsy I have not seen them before. Yes more lawmen died in Caldwell than any other city in the 1800's.
Burdie

borninok · Jul 30, 2007

Thank goodness WE (the males) weren't alive back then.......'cause that hat sure doesn't look like a REAL man's cowboy hat.....LOL!

Can you imagine walking through "da hood" wearing that??
--Mel

borninok

Gypsy Heart · Jul 30, 2007

borninok said:
Thank goodness WE (the males) weren't alive back then.......'cause that hat sure doesn't look like a REAL man's cowboy hat.....LOL! Can you imagine walking through "da hood" wearing that??
--Mel

borninok

Shhhhhh..Mel......I think thats Burdie

borninok · Jul 30, 2007

ROFL.....

At least we know he's not the one holding the doll....ha/ha
--Mel

borninok

Gypsy Heart · Jul 30, 2007

borninok said:
ROFL.....

At least we know he's not the one holding the doll....ha/ha
--Mel

borninok

Shhhhhhhhhhh MEL....Thats Stoney! ....Dang it ....now they are both going to be mad at you!

Burdie · Jul 30, 2007

Hold on Trigger!! This is a Chek. farming community with the cowboys going right down the middle of it. no wonder we had so many fights in town. Gypsy stay out of my photo album.

Burdie

Gypsy Heart · Jul 30, 2007

The Caldwell Commercial, Thursday, September 7, 1882.

COSAND & MOSSER, PHOTOGRAPHERS.

Do all kinds of work in the best of style. Keep a good assortment of INDIAN PICTURES AND VIEWS.

Office East side Main Street, Caldwell, Kansas.

Burdie · Jul 30, 2007

The neat thing about the main street Photo is most of those buildings are still there less the awnings. I believe the first piture is off a block or something. I am very curious about that photo.
Burdie

eagle77 · Jul 30, 2007

Only 6 hours away...thinking real hard on attending, but work schedule hasn't been posted yet...hopefully it won't fill up before the schedule comes out.

Tin Nugget · Jul 30, 2007

Come on Eagle, thats only one more hour than my drive.
Youuuuu Cane Dooo Eeeet!

Hope the schedule works out for ya.

HH

borninok · Jul 30, 2007

Ok, Eagle, I'm driving all the way from Manassas, VA....check how many hours & miles I will be driving...

In my younger days....many, many, many years ago...I used to make the trip from here in Manassas, VA to Enid, OK in 26 straight hours. Now...with bathroom breaks and snoozes, I do it in 3 days. Of course, if I get sidetracked at one of these reservation casinos that Burdie and Stoney have told me about....it might take a couple of weeks....LOL

This will be my first hunt, so you've got to see me make a fool out of myself. Be my luck that I'll get lost in Caldwell and end up in Wichita....ha/ha

I can tell you, Eagle, that from the get-go of my first contacts with Stoney and Burdie, I have never been more welcomed than from this CTH group....and nobody has ever met me...and I've never met them. I'm really looking forward to this hunt.
--Mel

borninok

eagle77 · Jul 30, 2007

borninok said:
This will be my first hunt, so you've got to see me make a fool out of myself.
borninok

Mine too, I read about these hunts, but none are ever close enough.

I did ask the Mrs. if she wanted to go with me - I DID NOT MENTION THE A$$ ORGANIZATION EITHER (I might be be slow, but I sure ain't ignorant

)

. She's uncommitted. Hopefully, on Wed. I will know about schedules.

borninok · Jul 30, 2007

"Gypsy stay out of my photo album.
Burdie"

Gypsy, thank goodness you didn't print the pictures of Burdie and Stoney swimming in the cow tank...

--Mel

borninok

stoney56 · Jul 30, 2007

borninok said:
Gypsy, thank goodness you didn't print the pictures of Burdie and Stoney swimming in the cow tank...
--Mel

borninok

ROFL, especially the one of diving off the windmill into the concrete one. ::)

borninok · Jul 30, 2007

"...diving off the windmill into the concrete one"

OUCH! Now that's where "Here's yer sign" comes into play...LOL

BTW, so that's the real story behind how you got your nickname STONEY.....LOL ....too much diving head first into the concrete water tank...hmmmm? "Here's yer sign" "Something ain't right about that boy!"

---Mel

borninok

stoney56 · Jul 30, 2007

Trust me, I only did it once. Scared a cow so bad, she dried up for three days. LOL

Burdie · Jul 30, 2007

eagle77 said:
borninok said:

This will be my first hunt, so you've got to see me make a fool out of myself.
borninok

Click to expand...

Mine too, I read about these hunts, but none are ever close enough.

I did ask the Mrs. if she wanted to go with me - I DID NOT MENTION THE A$$ ORGANIZATION EITHER (I might be be slow, but I sure ain't ignorant ) . She's uncommitted. Hopefully, on Wed. I will know about schedules.

The whole town will have sales and arts and crafts that weekend. Does she like that eagle? Even a sculpture that sells his items for $1500 each.