Sharon Tally's Blog (6)

I've read several articles lately.... either online or in magazines.... that have me guessing what or where they are about. Like I have to read the whole thing to figure out what we are talking about.. and maybe not even then do I get it.



I may be old school but it seems to me the Who/What/When/Where ought to be explained in the first couple of paragraphs. Especially the where. If something is written for a local paper for instance, who is to say it is only going to be read by local… Continue

Got a few minutes to read the latest True West and was saddened to read that Curly Musgrave, cowboy singer/songwriter, has died. Had the privilege of hearing him and his singing partner Belinda Gail at Ottawa Kansas' Old West Days some years back. What a creative man! Was looking forward to him and Belinda possibly coming back to Ottawa again sometime but I guess I'll have to settle for Belinda's solo act. Of course she is wonderful, but am sure sorry we'll only get to hear Curly on his… Continue

Talking about hats.......



A Cowboy’s Hat



What is it about a cowboy’s hat

That makes her heart skip a beat or two?

You put a hat on an average Joe

And he’s down right handsome, it’s true!



There once was a time when a cowboy rode

On horseback all day and all night!

A ten-gallon hat with a hurricane string!

Take his hat and you’d have you a fight!



His hat his protection through thick and through thin

From sun, wind,… Continue

The Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame Induction was last Saturday. Its held at Dodge City at the Front Street Museum. There were five inducted - 3 who are living and 2 posthumously. The categories are Rodeo Cowboy, Working Cowboy, Rancher/Stockman, Entertainer/Artisit and Historian.



I was particularly pleased to be able to support the induction of the late Wayne Dunafon in the Rodeo category as he was from my area of the state. Wayne, born in 1919, died in 2001 after a full life that… Continue

Here's this week's release by my good friend Ron Wilson, Kansas cowboy poet, et. al



Kansas Profile - Now That´s Rural

Silver Screen Cowboy Museum





By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural

Development at Kansas State University.





Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Rex Allen, Tex

Ritter, Hoot Gibson. That´s quite a roster of western movie heroes

from yesteryear. A person could make a museum… Continue

I heard a radio story this morning that a 1870's & '80's Dodge City court ledger with Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson's names in it has turned up in Ohio. The U.S. Attorney's office is trying to get it returned. I wanted to check it out so ran a Google and came up with an AP article in, of all places, the Taiwan News.
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=962216&lang=eng_news
Its certainly gotten to be a small world, hasn't it!