OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special. Writer/Editor: Baby Doll Blue

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1 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special July 2018 Writer/Editor: Baby Doll Blue July 7th 72 Shooters came out for what turned out to be a wonderful July shoot! We had perfect weather and a great shoot. Congratulations to The Cumberland Kid, our Top Men s and Overall shooter, as well as Ani Two Feathers, our Top Ladies shooter. Welcome to Tusco Fast Farley, TJ Law Dog, and Sonny Wopaccino. We hope you enjoyed the shoot and will come again soon. Thank you to Life-R with Patriot Casting and One Shot Al & Needle Eye Annie for their donations to the prize table. A huge thank you to all who came out early to help set up our stages as well as all our shooters and visitors. Top The Cumberland Kid 2. Mad Dog Max 3. Cripple Creek Kid 4. Cheyenne Culpepper 5. Dewey Shootem 6. Cheatin Charlie 7. Buckaroo Bubba 8. Maverick 9. Swiss 10. Hooligan Howes 11. I.M. Crossdraw 12. Sixgun Seamus 13. Stone Creek Drifter 14. Kid Glove 15. Split Rail 16. Crazy Cryder 17. Raging Thunder 18. One More Woody 19. Kcid 20. N.A. Custer Clean Shooters Ace Deuce Ani Two Feathers Cheatin Charlie Cripple Creek Kid Damned Ol Ranger Kcid Luscious Liza Moosetracks Ole Rattlesnake Ole Saddlebags Short Gun Shorty The Cumberland Kid Thunder Creek Kid Willie Goodnews In this Issue Prairie Dawg s Little-Known Facts of the Old West EOT 2018 High Noon Tusco Wall Calendar Next Shoot: August 4th 2018 Rain or Shine 1 P a g e

2 Images from End of Trail 2018 ~Photographs provided by Baby Doll Blue with KK Photography~ 2 P a g e

3 Prairie Dawg's Little-Known Facts of the Old West The Western Writers of America 2018 Spur Awards Spur Awards are literary prizes awarded annually by the Western Writers of America (WWA). The purpose of the Spur Awards is to honor writers for distinguished writing about the American West. The Spur awards began in 1953, the year the WWA was founded. An author need not be a member of the WWA to receive a Spur Award. Among previous Spur Award winners are Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove, Michael Blake for Dances with Wolves, Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist, and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalkers. The Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in Western literature, first awarded in 1961, is also a Western Writers of America award, distinct from the Spur awards. Spur awards were first awarded in five categories: western novel, historical novel, juvenile, short story, and reviewer. The categories have expanded and changed, or been renamed over the years. There is no guarantee an award will be made in each category every year. The WWA was incorporated in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West. Like the Western landscape itself, the WWA and the books, songs, and stories produced by its members, have evolved immensely. Who are the WWA? They are no longer just traditional Western fiction authors. The WWA boasts historians, nonfiction authors, young adult, romance writers, songwriters, poets, and screenwriters for film and television. Today the WWA has more than 650 members who have garnered awards and made The New York Times best-sellers list. Members include C.J. Box, Anne Hillerman, Craig Johnson, Mark Hall-Patton, Thomas Cobb, Kat Martin, Kirk Ellis, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Paul Andrew Hutton and David Morrell. The Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West with the Spur Awards. Since 1953 the Spur Awards have been considered one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Spurs are given for the best western historical novel, best western traditional novel, best western contemporary novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best drama, best documentary, and best first novel as well as best first nonfiction book. This month we feature the 2018 Spur Award Winners and Finalists. So, open the beach chair under a shade tree, get yourself a cold lemonade, and spend an afternoon or two with one of these great reads! 3 P a g e

4 Contemporary Novel Winner: Double Wide by Leo. W. Banks Summary/Review: Banks s strong noir debut will remind many of early Joe Lansdale. Prospero Whip Stark, a former professional baseball pitcher, has retreated to a trailer park, population eight, in the Arizona desert, after a drug bust led to his doing time in a Mexican jail. One hot, stormy summer day, he opens a box that mysteriously appeared outside his trailer. Inside is a severed hand that he recognizes as that of former catcher Rolando Molina, a close friend, whom he last saw two years earlier outside a rehab center in Malibu, where Rolando was being treated for cocaine addiction. Whip and neighbor Opal Sanchez follow car tracks to a bluff, where he discovers a body that at first appears to be Rolando s but it s not missing a hand. Whip later joins forces with reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz to find his baseball buddy, dead or alive. Opal s disappearance raises the stakes. Since he s new to this kind of work, Whip turns to his vast library of pulp detective fiction for guidance. Smart dialogue helps propel the tight plot. About the Author: Leo W. Banks graduated from Boston College and earned a masters degree from the University ofarizona, where he later taught writing. He has written four books of Old West history for Arizona Highways publishing and co-wrote a book about the Grand Canyon. Today, Banks writes a column for True West magazine. Double Wide is his first novel. Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon 4 P a g e

5 Historical Novel Winner: The Coming: A Novel by David Osborne Summary/Review: Nonfiction author Osborne has written a historical novel beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition and ending with the decimation of the Nez Perce tribe. As the company crosses the Rockies and encounters the Nez Perce, William Clark is the focus. The Nez Perce welcomed and aided the white Americans, and Clark was especially popular. He admired the tribe; Lewis thought them "savages." Clark became fascinated with a woman named Swan Lighting who bore him a son, Daytime Smoke, after he left her The Stone Place by Randy Lee Eickhoff behind, and Daytime Smoke becomes the focus of the story as white incursion into Native American territory increases. Osborne shows a considered empathy as he describes tribal life. At first, as the tribe meets white trappers and mountain men, there s minimal conflict. Wanting to learn more from whites, the tribe welcomes missionaries - Sent Ones - but soon they find whites rigid and rapacious. Coexistence becomes impossible. Osborne brings historical characters to life and superbly individualizes numerous Nez Perce, some resisting white incursions, some wanting peace. The early narrative has a Garden of Eden innocence, but the latter portion - equally well-researched and rich in historical detail - becomes a depressing litany of white aggression and dark betrayal, especially as the Nez Perce are driven from their lands and attempt to link up with Sitting Bull in Canada. The pace never slackens as the Nez Perce succumb to the avarice and racial prejudice that stained the early industrial age. An epic story sure to be a hit with readers interested in the American western expansion. About the Author: David Osborne is the author or co-author of five nonfiction books. He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and many other publications. Osborne is currently a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, directing the Reinventing America's Schools Project. He lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Moon Hunt: People of Cahokia: A Novel of North America s Forgotten Past by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O Neal Gear Copper Sky by Milana Marsenich 5 P a g e

6 Summary/Review: To make a new life, Jamie Pratt and his young bride join a westward wagon train bound for the Rocky Mountains. They get as far as Helena when their unscrupulous wagon master deserts them, leaving them as good as dead in a godforsaken, blood-scorched land. Even still, the other settlers agree to set stakes where they are, but Jamie and his bride press on towards the Bitterroot Valley, deep into Sioux territory. They never come out the other side. Jamie s brother Monroe enlists the legendary scout John Hawk to find them. A hardened veteran of the range, Hawk is living off the land in a little cabin on the Boulder River when Monroe comes begging for his help. To rescue Jamie and his bride, Hawk and his guns will come out fighting, riding fast and fierce into deadly odds. For any other man, it s a suicide mission, for Hawk, delivering justice is what he was born to do Charles G. West starts this first book in a new series by introducing his readers to Hawk and a number of other characters that will have major roles to play as the story develops. These people include another scout, some soldiers and some Lakota and Blackfoot warriors. It s after this that Monroe arrives and the search for his missing brother and his bride begins. The hunt for Jamie and Rachel is actually just a small part of this story but the author links all the events in this tale by more than just Hawk, to say more would have to include major spoilers so I won t add anything else about this here. Later, when Hawk finds himself trying to solve the mystery of some cattle rustling, we meet the character who, I believe, the title of the book comes from, and what a terrific adversary she proves to be. The action content of the story really picks up when her family enter the tale. Fans of Charles G. West s many other books should enjoy this, as I did. If you ve never read any of Mr. West s work, then Hell Hath No Fury could be the ideal place to discover his excellent ability to write terrific westerns. 6 P a g e

7 About the Author: Charles G. West, author of historical/westerns, arrived on the western literary scene in March, 1998 with a novel entitled Stone Hand. Since then West has written forty-one western novels, published by The Penguin Group under their Signet imprint. West's love affair with the Big Sky Country began when he was a child, reading the works of authors like A.B. Guthrie and Vardis Fisher. When finally given the opportunity to write his own version of the Great American Western, he strived to write with honesty about the hardships and dangers faced by the men and women who forged our western frontier. To remain true to this resolve, a great deal of time must be invested in research of people, places, and events. Protagonists are often called upon to perform heroically, but the author insists they must be believable. West currently lives in Ocala, FL with his wife, portrait artist, Ronda West, whose name is found on the dedication page of every West novel. Valley of Bones: A Byrnes Family Ranch Western by Dusty Richards Romance Novel Winner: The Promise Bride by Gina Welborn and Becca Whitham Summary/Review: A mail-order bride moves to Montana, determined to find a better life, but instead finds an odd combination of safety and danger as she struggles to make a place for herself in her new community. Threatened by their Chicago landlord, Emilia Stanek accelerates her plan to marry the rancher she met through a newspaper ad, and flee to Montana with her brother and sister. After marrying Finn by proxy and taking a train to Helena, she learns he s been murdered, and the sheriff - Finn s best friend, Mac - wants them to return immediately to Chicago. Emilia refuses, then takes on the responsibility of paying off Finn s substantial debt. For the most part, the community embraces the family, and Mac is intrigued by determined, beautiful Emilia. Buzzard Bait: A Widowmaker Jones Western by Brett Cogburn 7 P a g e

8 But as he investigates the murder, some unsavory rumors mushroom around Finn and the Staneks, and he questions the true nature of the man he loved as a brother. Mac wants Emilia to marry him, which will take care of her financial obligations and the stain on her reputation, but Emilia resents his interference even though she s falling in love with him. Trying to get to the bottom of the rumors and his friend s death, Mac deals with a pesky reporter as well as his mother, a local brothel owner, but things get murkier rather than clearer, especially when a town clerk also winds up dead. In the end, both Mac and Emilia must overcome doubts and decide to trust in love, friendship, family, and community. Co-authors Welborn and Whitham launch a new series, Montana Brides, with a dauntless, winning heroine, a complex hero, an engaging supporting cast, and a light message of faith, plus an interesting though confusing - and unresolved - murder mystery, with an epilogue which is more of an enigmatic introduction to Book 2. Sweet and appealing, this historical inspirational romance hits a nice tone as it touches on a variety of themes. About the Authors: GINA WELBORN worked in news radio until she fell in love with writing romance novels. She s the author of ten inspirational romances, and serves on the ACFW Foundation Board by helping raise funds for scholarships. Gina lives with her pastor husband, three of their five children, several rabbits and guinea pigs, and a dog that doesn t realize rabbits and pigs are edible. Visit her online at GinaWelborn.com. BECCA WHITHAM is a multi-published author who has always loved reading and writing stories. After raising two children, she and her husband faced the empty nest years by following their dreams: he joined the army as a chaplain, and she began her journey toward publication. Becca loves to tell stories marrying real historical events with modern-day applications. She s traveled to almost every state in the U.S. for speaking and singing engagements and has lived in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Alaska. Visit her online at BeccaWhitham.com. Courting Carrie in Wonderland by Carla Kelly Willene: Jewel Of The West by Sally Harper Bates 8 P a g e

9 9 P a g e Traditional Novel Winner: Silver City: A Novel of the American West by Jeff Guinn Summary/Review: There is nothing I enjoy more than a good Western. I am of the generation that grew up watching "Gunsmoke" and John Wayne, and reading Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour. Around these parts, many people feel the same way, which is why Jeff Guinn's new book Silver City is currently a local best-seller. This is Guinn's third novel in the series about the American West featuring Cash McLendon. It is a worthy read for any fan of the Old West. Lively characters, authentic Old West settings and great storytelling highlight this tale of McLendon, who is now on the run from a professional assassin known as Killer Boots, a giant of a man who likes to inflict pain and can kill with one kick from his steel-toed boots. In Silver City, McLendon has survived the historic battle between whites and American Indians at Adobe Walls, and hopes to win back the love of his life, Gabrielle, who now lives and works in Mountain View, a mining boom town in the Arizona Territory. McLendon travels to Mountain View in an attempt to convince Gabrielle that he is the right man for her. But Gabrielle has another suitor, a former sheriff and now local schoolteacher named Joe Saint, who is a solid citizen and wellrespected by the residents of Mountain View. Saint is devoted to Gabrielle, and would provide her a good life. Saint is the safer, perhaps more logical choice of the two men for a husband, and Gabrielle must now decide between listening to her head or her heart. Life with McLendon would be more exciting but more dangerous, as Gabrielle quickly finds out. Killer Boots has been dispatched by his boss, McLendon's former father-in-law, to find McLendon and return him to St. Louis. McLendon's former father-in-law blames McLendon for the death of his daughter, and desperately wants to avenge her death. McLendon has managed to elude Killer Boots for two years, and mistakenly thinks it is now safe to have Gabrielle in his life again, but she provides Killer Boots with a way to get to McLendon. He hatches a plan to kidnap the woman to bring McLendon to him. The two men who are competing for Gabrielle's affection now must team up to save her, along with the help of McLendon's old friend, Major Mulkins, a Civil War veteran. McLendon is ready to trade his life to save Gabrielle, and Saint feels the same way. Guinn mixes some real-life Old West towns and historical characters into his fiction. Killer Boots pays off a corrupt sheriff in the seedy hell hole of Silver City, New Mexico, on his journey to Mountain View, and hires the Clanton clan, later to become famous in Tombstone, to assist in his plan. The Clantons were frontier hustlers out to make a fortune

10 by any means at hand, and, in the novel, are eager to help Killer Boots, for the right price. McLendon also crosses paths with a young Apache chief and warrior named Geronimo, or Goyathlay, as he was known in his youth. Goyathlay and four other Apaches who fled the reservation play a big role in McClendon's final clash with Killer Boots. Silver City is a rousing Western adventure, and one this ol' cowboy fan found very satisfying. About the Author: Jeff Guinn is the winner of the 2016 TCU Texas Book Award and the bestselling author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. The former books editor at the Fort Worth Star- Telegram and award-winning investigative journalist, he is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. Guinn lives in Fort Worth. Slate Creek: Journey to the White Clouds by Wallace J. Swenson Huck Out West: A Novel by Robert Coover His brother and sister-in-law also joined the fight for labor, but it was Frank who led the Biography Winner: Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family by Jane Little Botkin Summary/Review: Franklin Henry Little ( ), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle s fascinating life and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare. Beginning with Little s childhood in Missouri and territorial Oklahoma, Botkin recounts his evolution as a renowned organizer and agitator on behalf of workers in corporate agriculture, oil, logging, and mining. Frank Little traveled the West and Midwest to gather workers beneath the banner of the Wobblies (as IWW members were known), making soapbox speeches on city street corners, organizing strikes, and writing polemics against unfair labor practices. charge - and who was regularly threatened, incarcerated, and assaulted for his efforts. In his final battles in Arizona and Montana, Little and the IWW leadership faced their 10 P a g e

11 strongest opponent yet as powerful copper magnates countered union efforts with deep-laid networks of spies and gunmen, an antilabor press, and local vigilantes. For a time, Frank Little s murder became a rallying cry for the IWW. But after the United States entered the Great War and Congress passed the Sedition Act (1918) to ensure support for the war effort, many politicians and corporations used the act to target labor radicals, squelch dissent, and inspire vigilantism. Like other wage-working families smeared with the traitor label, the Little family endured raids, arrests, and indictments in IWW trials. Having scoured the West for firsthand sources in family, library, and museum collections, Botkin melds the personal narrative of an American family with the story of the labor movements that once shook the nation to its core. In doing so, she throws into sharp relief the lingering consequences of political repression. About the Author: Retired from a thirty-year teaching career in Texas public schools, Jane Little Botkin is an independent historian. Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise by Doug Hocking Tejano Tiger: José de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, by Jerry Thompson 11 P a g e Contemporary Nonfiction Winner: A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century by Flannery Burke Summary/Review: A Land Apart is not just a cultural history of the modern Southwest - it is a complete rethinking and recentering of the key players and primary events marking the Southwest in the twentieth century. Historian Flannery Burke emphasizes how indigenous, Hispanic, and other non-white people negotiated their rightful place in the Southwest. Readers visit the region s top tourist attractions and find out how they got there, listen to the debates of Native people as they sought to establish independence for themselves in the modern United States, and ponder the significance of the U.S.-Mexico border in a place that used to be Mexico. Burke emphasizes policy over politicians, communities over individuals, and stories over simple narratives. Burke argues that the Southwest s reputation as a region on the margins of the nation has caused many of its problems in the twentieth century. She proposes that, as they consider the future, Americans should view New Mexico and Arizona as close neighbors rather than distant siblings, pay attention to the region s history as Mexican and indigenous space,

12 bear witness to the area s inequalities, and listen to the Southwest s stories. Burke explains that two core parts of southwestern history are the development of the nuclear bomb, and subsequent uranium mining. She maintains that these are not merely a critical facet in the history of World War II and the militarization of the American West, but central to an understanding of the region s energy future, its environmental health, and southwesterners conception of home. Burke masterfully crafts an engaging and accessible history that will interest historians and lay readers alike. It is for anyone interested in using the past to understand the present and the future of not only the region, but the nation as a whole. About the Author: Flannery Burke is an associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. She is the author of From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan s. Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech by Jeffrey A. Lockwood Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind by Steve Friesen with Francois Chladiuk Historical Nonfiction Winner: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Summary/Review: David Grann s new book is a meticulously researched account of an appalling widespread conspiracy against the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. He centers the story around an Osage family who died, in ones and twos, of causes ranging from the odd and ambiguous to the obviously violent. First, Minnie Smith, 27 years old, died in 1918 of what doctors termed a peculiar wasting illness ; then, in 1921, her sister Anna Brown was shot, her body left in a ravine. Their mother, Lizzie Kyle, died weeks later, also felled by an unidentified wasting illness. By this point, her family suspected she d been poisoned. A bomb killed a third sister, Rita Smith, along with her husband, Bill, in The last living sister, Mollie Burkhart, made it to 1925 before she sent secret word to a priest that her life was in peril. Such was one family s plight; meanwhile, other Osage were dying under similarly disturbing circumstances. There was Charles Whitehorn (shot), William Stepson (poisoned), a prominent rancher (drugged then thrown 12 P a g e

13 down a flight of stairs), Joe Bates (poisoned) and Henry Roan (shot). When a white oilman, Barney McBride, was recruited by Osage to ask federal officials to investigate these deaths, he was also killed: stabbed and beaten, then stripped naked except for his socks and shoes, in one of which had been left a card with his name. By 1925, none of the murders had been solved, and the death toll was climbing high enough that the rest of America started taking notice. National papers reported on what was termed the Reign of Terror, the Osage Black Curse. But this wasn t the first time the tribe had featured in the national news. The Osage, in recent years, had also become the wealthiest people per capita in the world. In the 1870s, they had been driven from ancestral lands to a reservation in Oklahoma judged to be broken, rocky, sterile, and utterly unfit for cultivation. Decades later, the Osage learned the reservation sat on top of some of the biggest oil deposits in the US, a fluke that, by the 1920s, was said to have yielded more oil money than the combined value of all the Old West gold rushes. To excavate this oil, prospectors had to rent leases from the Osage; in tones of fascination and racist outrage, journalists reported on what they called plutocratic Osage and red millionaires. Newspapers peddled prurient stories, often wildly embroidered, Grann says, of Osage arriving at a ceremony for their dances in a private airplane, grand pianos tossed out on lawns, and even whites performing all the menial tasks about the house to which no Osage will stoop. While this newfound wealth attracted a host of known outlaws gang members, fugitives, bank robbers and the like the more insidious thefts were facilitated by the US government, which claimed that many Osage were incapable of handling their own money. These tribe members were then forced to have guardians, usually drawn from the ranks of the most prominent white citizens in Osage County, to supervise and authorize their spending. Guardians often grossly swindled their wards by purchasing items from their own stores at inflated prices, directing business to associates for kickbacks, and outright stealing. It was, as the Indian Rights Association protested, an orgy of graft and exploitation. Still, the headrights, or mineral rights to the oil-rich land, were less easily stolen. They couldn t be bought, only inherited. Thus, headrights remained in the tribe unless, that is, someone who wasn t Osage happened to be next in line to inherit. This is where the terrible story of the US s original sin, the systematic oppression and killing of its first people, becomes, if possible, even more grim. For if white people hoped to inherit the headrights, they had to marry into the tribe, then to wish their rich spouse would die. Or cause them to die, often after having lived for years with the Osage husband or wife. Headright inheritance, as a fledgling FBI eventually proved, helped explain the deaths of Minnie, Anna, Lizzie, Rita and Bill. In time, three of the white men behind the Kyle family murders were apprehended, found guilty, and put in prison. The FBI counted this a great success, a showcase for the modern bureau that let the agency s director, J Edgar Hoover, demonstrate to the rest of the country the need for a national police force. But, as Grann carefully shows, the FBI s victory declaration obscured the scope of headright-related killings. The US s official death count for the Reign of Terror topped out at 24, but scholars who delved into the historical evidence believed the real death toll to be in the hundreds. Most of the murders weren t solved. Instead, Grann says, the victims descendants carry out their own private investigations, which have no end. They live with 13 P a g e

14 doubts, suspecting dead relatives or old family friends or guardians. You just have it in the back of your head that you don t trust anybody, a great-grandson of an Osage victim explained, and why should he? While I was reading Killers of the Flower Moon, the news provided updates on the ongoing debacle at Standing Rock, where Native American protests against an oil pipeline haven t stopped it from being built; there was another mistrial of a policeman who d killed an unarmed black man; white supremacists held a public rally in Virginia and so on. Grann s accomplished and necessary account of injustice, avarice and racist violence, tells a story both old and new. About the Author: David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a best-selling author. His work has garnered several honors for outstanding journalism, including a George Polk Award. Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by Christopher Knowlton Provisions of the Fur Trade: The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods, Vol. 6 by James A. Hanson Juvenile Fiction Winner: Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival by Matthew P. Mayo Summary/Review: 1849, the American West: a little family moves for a better life from Missouri to Oregon. It just seems our forebears were so much tougher than us. This short novel, based on a historical fragment, is convincing. Fourteen-year-old Janette Riker reluctantly departs with her father and brothers to a better land. Over 50 years later, her spoiled great-granddaughter, who discovers and reads an ancient diary, ensnares us in the first few pages into Janette s tragic but incredibly triumphant ordeal. In the foothills of the Rockies as winter approaches, Janette s kin leave to find food as she stays behind. The worst happens, and the teenage girl is suddenly alone in the most hostile environment imaginable. Narrated in simple country prose, pleasing to the reader, Janette s impressive efforts to keep herself alive entrance us, especially considering she is alone, with only her father s lessons to guide her. Interludes with bears, wolves and especially a rapacious mountain lion are as terrifying as any horror novel. Present-day adults and kids will be proud of Janette. Highly recommended. About the Author: 14 P a g e

15 Matthew P. Mayo is the award-winning author of thirty-plus books and dozens more short stories. His novel, Stranded: A Story Of Frontier Survival, won the prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, as well as the Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction by the Western Writers of America. His short stories have been Spur Award and Peacemaker Award finalists. He has been an on-screen expert for a popular TV series about lost treasure in the American West, and is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. 15 P a g e Viva, Rose! by Susan Krawitz Katrine: High Valley Home by Joseph Dorris Juvenile Nonfiction Winner: Glorious Fourth of July and Other Stories from the Plains by Catherine Rademacher Gibson and recounted by Mary Gibson Sprague Summary/Review: Living through everyday childhood exploits with a large spark of imagination, a young girl grows up on the American plains. Catherine survives a cyclone and a small pox epidemic. Her youth is filled with new sights as her world expands to the Montana frontier and the metropolis of Saint Paul, Minnesota. As the storyteller, Catherine gives insight into a bygone era with child-like enthusiasm and a reflective nature brought on by the passing years. In recounting these episodes from Catherine's childhood, her daughter Mary Gibson Sprague shares a narrative common to many plains families that migrated throughout the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tales take on new life as they are paired with paintings created by Catherine in her adult years. These "memory paintings," as she named them, call readers back to a time when birthday parties were new celebrations and children relied on their own ingenuity to occupy themselves. About the Author: Catherine Rademacher Gibson ( ) was born in Austin, Minnesota, the second child of Francis Aloysius Rademacher and Minnie Cotter Rademacher. She grew up with her brothers Clyde and Raymond in Watertown, South Dakota, and in 1923 her family moved to Minneapolis. She graduated with an art degree from the University of Minnesota in 1929 and taught art in the Detroit Public Schools until her marriage to Captain Verne Cyril Gibson ( ), an engineer for the United States Lighthouse Service. After the birth of Patricia Jean Gibson and Mary Karen Gibson, Verne and Catherine relocated to Marblehead, Massachusetts, where Catherine began painting watercolors as the family continued to move around the country, finally settling in San Francisco. Catherine created her "memory paintings" series as a way to tell her childhood stories and cheer up her husband during the last years of his life. The True Story of Jim the Wonder Dog by Marty Rhodes Figley Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Fairy Star by Lois V. Harris

16 Bold Women in Montana History by Beth Judyamusing as their endearingly awkward Storyteller (Illustrated Children s Book) Winner: Fergus and the Greener Grass by author/illustrator Jean Abernethy Summary/Review: Everyone loves Fergus! say reviewers, and now the opinionated cartoon horse and bona fide social media star is back in an all new comic adventure. In his third book, Fergus catches a glimpse of what could be, and leaving his life of comfort behind, sets off on a hilarious journey. His exploits lead him over, under, and through all manner of obstacles, as he strives to reach the bigger, better prize that beckons, always just a little farther away and on the other side. Featuring the talented Jean Abernethy s hysterical illustrations and scenes replete with supporting characters as hero, Fergus and the Greener Grass promises to entertain any reader with big dreams and an insatiable appetite for life s little surprises - whether age 5 or 95! About the Author: Jean Abernethy grew up on a small family farm, where as a child, she learned explore her world on horseback. She pursued a college education in Equine studies, then earned her art degree at Ocad University in Toronto. Her comical horse cartoons have graced equine print publications for over 30 years, while her passion for horses has led her through work with saddle making, and employment as a barn hand, carriage driver, and trail guide. Most notably, her star character, Fergus, has brought laughter to over 300,000 Facebook fans around the world. Jean has written and illustrated three books: The Essential Fergus the Horse; Fergus: A Horse to Be Reckoned With; and Fergus and the Greener Grass. Lexie the Word Wrangler by author Rebecca Van Slyke and illustrator Jessie Hartland Abraham by author Frank Keating and illustrator Mike Wimmer Short Fiction Winner: Lost and Found: A Short Story by Rod Miller Point Blank, Texas by Larry D. Sweazy The San Angela Stump Match of 1876 by Johnny D. Boggs Short Nonfiction Winner: States of Decay: A Journey Through America s Nuclear Heartland by Ben Mauk The Great Western by Paul Andrew Hutton All-American Indian Days and the Miss Indian America Pageant by Gregory Nickerson 16 P a g e

17 Poem Winner: She Saddles Her Own Horse by Marleen Bussma (self-published) Lookin Back by Jim Logan The Knowing by Rod Miller Song Winner: The Pitchfork Grays by Jean Prescott and Darrell Arnold Alchesay by Doug Figgs The Ridge by Jean Prescott Drama Script Winner: Wind River by Taylor Sheridan Finalist: Godless (Episode 1) by Scott Frank Documentary Script Winner: Down The Fence by MJ Isakson and Eric Frith First Novel Winner: Double Wide by Leo W. Banks First Nonfiction Book Winner: Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family by Jane Little Botkin High Noon 2018 High Noon 2018 is sold out. If you want to get on the waiting list, please send in a registration form with payment. Checks will not be cashed until you get moved onto the shooters list. 17 P a g e Thank you to all who signed up! We are looking forward to another great High Noon!

18 End of Trail: SASS World Championships Congratulations to our friends: Stone Creek Drifter- 1 st in SFCD Sixgun Seamus- 13 th in Classic Cowboy Cayenne Kay-3 rd in Classic Cowgirl Missouri Lefty- 4 th in Cowboy Spud- 10 th in Cowboy Raging Thunder- 11 th in Duelist Cheyenne Culpepper- 1 st in Senior Gunfighter Boaz- 1 st in FCG Honey B. Quick- 2 nd Lady Silver Senior As well as all the others who competed in the SASS World Championships! Also, congratulations to Sixgun Seamus and Cayenne Kay who were recognized as new Sass Regulators at End of Trail. We hope you all enjoyed your time at Founders Ranch! 18 P a g e 2019 Tusco Wall Calendar The 2019 Tusco Wall calendar will be for pre-sale now through High Noon. No orders will be taken after High Noon All calendars will be delivered at our charity shoot on November 3 rd. Cost is $22 and all proceeds go to our charity, the Barnhill/Midvale shared Christmas Program.

19 Tusco News & Notes Six Stages We shoot six stages at Tusco. A few people have told us that they drive a good distance to shoot at Tusco and would like to shoot as much as possible. Obviously we only have room for five shooting bays. So what we do is shoot the first stage you start on twice. Consider it a warm up stage. Only five stages will be scored. You can take your best time on your first stage. If you don t want to shoot it twice you do not have to. This would provide more shooting for our shooters. New SASS Magazine With the new release of the SASS Quarterly Cowboy Chronicle, I once again would like to start collecting any unwanted issues of the magazine. We will use these for our promotional events, like our Tusco Long Riders Day at Kames Sports. Please either black out or cut off your name and address or I will do it before they are passed out. Thank you! Facebook Page When you make a post about Tusco or share pictures on Facebook, include #TuscoLongRiders. Let everyone see what we are all about. New Shooters Shoot for Free at Tusco The Tusco Long Riders will be offering FREE SHOOTS to ALL FIRST TIME SHOOTERS AT TUSCO. This is ONLY for a shooter s first ever shoot at Tusco. (*this is only for monthly matches, excluding High Noon 3-day Shoot in October, and the Charity Shoot in November.) Cowboy Swap Meet at Monthly Shoots As a reminder, feel free to bring your old Cowboy Gear, Guns and Equipment to sell at our monthly shoots. It s a good opportunity to sell some of your unwanted stuff to your fellow shooters. Your items are your responsibility. Pre-Paid Shoots Looking for that perfect Gift for your Cowboy Friends and Family? How about a Pre-paid Shoot to a Tusco Monthly Match. They cost $10.00 each at a shoot or they can be mailed for $ Contact Buckaroo Bubba at pittfandwr@aol.com or if you would like to purchase them. Help Wanted at Tusco If you are available to help set up target stands/props before our shoots it would be greatly appreciated. 19 P a g e

20 Contact Information Tusco Long Riders 2132 Midvale Mine Rd SE Dennison, OH Tusco Long Riders on Facebook President Buckaroo Bubba Dan Ranker Vice President Prairie Dawg Lou Polsinelli Treasurer Angie Oakley Angela Haun Secretary Baby Doll Blue Kristina Hall Club Sheriff Split Rail Tim Watson Club Deputy Dewey Shootem David Keeler Club Deputy Six Gun Seamus Ken Flanagan Match Director Muleskinner Mike Legg Territorial Governor Stone Creek Drifter Achim Obernyer Supporting Clubs Big Irons Middletown, Ohio Blackhand Raiders Nashpost, Ohio Brown Township Regulators Malvern, Ohio Firelands Peacemakers Rochester, Ohio Greene County Cowboys Xenia, Ohio Henderson Wild Justice League Williamstown, WV Logan s Ferry Regulators Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Miami Valley Cowboys Piqua, Ohio Ohio Valley Vigilantes Mount Vernon, Ohio River Junction Shootist Society Donegal, Pennsylvania Sandusky County Regulators Gibsonburg, Ohio Scioto Territory Desperados Chillicothe, Ohio Shenango River Rats Masury, Ohio Wild West Point West Point, Ohio 20 P a g e

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