Test Your Wild West IQ Answers::
Bonus: ranch house or trail-drive cook. Most of their cuisine just "filled the gut."
***(Excepts from Rod Gragg's The Old West by Promontory Press, 1986).
Wyatt Earp's Family Tree
Annie Oakley
James Butler Hickok Family Tree ... John Wesley Hardin
Calamity Jane
Scoring Your Results:
Scoring:
..........10 right = Yahoo! You're a bonafide genius! Would you like to be a US Marshal?
...........9 right = You've got the Old West figured--we could use you as a deputy.
...........8 = Good job Pard!
...........7 = You better watch your back, Pard ... treachery ahead.
...........6 = Don't go on the streets without a body guard.
...........5 or less = Be careful or the undertaker will be measuring you up for a wooden box.
More Trivia:
01.Virgil Earp. His wife, Alice Sullivan Earp was sister to Amelia Sullivan, the 25th wife of Brigham Young.
02. John Henry Selman(from El Paso, Texas) killed Hardin in 1895.
03. Lincoln County Sheriff, Pat Garrett, killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881, at the home of rancher Pete Maxwell at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
04. Kit Carson's most harrowing experience was being treed by two furious grizzlies in 1834, and staying there for hours.
05. Western artist, George Catlin, said this after an Eastern critic denounced him as the "Indian loving Catlin."
06. Billy the Kid was thus described by a resident of Lincoln County, New Mexico.
07. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker spoke these words: "As far as you see see I am chief here and people look up to me. There (in white man's world) I would be a poor half-breed Indian."
08. Most cowboys died due to accidents involving horses.
09. These words were spoken by Colonel J. M. Chivinton, who directed the Colorado Volunteer Militia in its 1864 attack at Chief Black Kettle's Cheyenne village in the Sand Creek Massacre.
10. Chief Crazy Horse's last words were: "tell the people it is no use to depend on me anymore now." These words were spoken midnight on September 5, 1877.Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse Malt Liquor Protest ... Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation
01. Tom Mix was killed in an automobile (the Iron Horse) accident on October 12, 1940, (at age 60) near Florence, Arizona.
Tom Mix was the top cowboy of American silent films. Mix was known for his daring stunts, and as years passed he became equally famous for his elaborate cowboy outfits; he's the model for the dandyish, squeaky-clean movie cowboy that was much parodied in later years. Mix also had a famous steed, "Tony the Wonder Horse." Mix's movie career ended when silent films were replaced by talkies, but later the Tom Mix radio program ran for nearly 20 years, with various actors providing the voice of "Tom Mix."
Mix was married seven times to six different women.
Who the Heck is Tom Mix his Hollywood Life.
Tom Mix was born January 6, 1880, in Mix Run, Pennsylvania.
PLACES YOU CAN SEE SERGE DARRIGRAND AS TOM MIX:
| Tom Mix Museum 721 North Delaware Dewey, OK Annual Tom Mix Festival Day, each September featuring Tom Mix lookalike's Serge Darrigrand and Tony Jr. Memorabilia and regular screenings of the actor's films. Dewey, OK is 90 miles southwest of Joplin, Mo.
The National Tom Mix Festival Committee
P.O. Box 402
DuBois, Pa 15801
Phone: (814) 371-5010 or (814) 371-4406
E-mail: georgias@pennswood.net for details. | |
02. Jeff Chandler portrayed Cohise, even though he did not have any Native American blood.
03. Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates on the TV show Rawhide, and from there he went on to star in many westerns from the spaghetti westerns produced in Italy (The Good, Bad, and the Ugly, Fistfull of Dollars,etc), to The Unforgiven, Outlaw Josie Wales, and other movies with western themes.
04. Believe it or not McLintock starring John Wayne was based on Shakespeare.
05. William Boyd was the star of Hop-A-Long Cassidy from 1935 until the series ended.
06. Gene Autry was the star of Tumbling Tumbleweeds.
07. Dustin Hoffman portrayed a survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn in Big Little Man in 1970.
08. Edward Richard Gibson became "Hoot" Gibson.
09. Leonard Slye was the "King of the Cowboys," Roy Rodgers Roy and Gene Autry made many a movie in their days.
10. Errol Flynn played Custer and Anthony Quinn played Crazy Horse in the 1942 movie, They Died With Their Boots On.
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