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Monday, July 31, 2006

On the way home from Sheridan, Wyoming Dakota and Sunny stopped by station KYCN 1340AM in Wheatland, Wyoming.  Derek Barton plays the daily show at 9:20 AM.  They’ll be adding the weekly show a little later in the fall.

From Thursday through Saturday, Dakota & Sunny attended the NOLA Rendezvous in Sheraton, Wyoming.  Saturday evening was the grand banquet.  Here’s Dakota & Sunny all decked out for the evening.  Note those boots.

Our weekly show Old West expert, Bill O’Neal, was also there.  Here’s Bill with his wife Karon.

Wednesday Dakota did an on-line interview with Noel at KLGT 92.9FM, in Buffalo, WY.  KLGT plays the daily radio show.  Its sister station KBBS 1450AM plays the weekly show at 8:00 AM on Sunday.  People have been known to arrive late for church because they’re sitting in the parking lot listening to the last of the show.

We’ve made it to Gillette, Wyoming. Saturday night was spent in Raton, New Mexico. We got some rain yesterday and today.

It was an interesting drive from Douglas to Gillette on Route #59.  I would swear there was a dead rabbit, or piece thereof, every fifty yards or so.  We didn’t see a live one…I’m sure they weren’t all a piece of the road.  It must be that they come out at night.

Dakota has an interview Monday at 7:00 am with Steve Norris of KIML 1270 AM.  He’ll find out the story on the rabbit road, Route #59.

Today is National Day of the Cowboy.  According to Gordon Eaton, our sidekick #001 and a postman, “I'll be wearing my cowboy hat on my route and humming great western ballads.”

Dakota will also be wearing his cowboy hat…But, then, he wears it every day.  Because he can’t sing a lick, he won’t be allowed to hum.

Hope you celebrate the Day of the Cowboy in some special way.

My webmaster, Lynn Nyen, has been on me for not doing a good job of keeping our “On The Road” section updated.  Lynn, and everyone else, this is a commitment to do much better.

The August edition of Chronicle of the Old West newspaper goes to the printer today.  It will be printed tomorrow, and at the mail service on Monday.

It contains some great articles, including one about Wild Bill Hickok.  It’s interesting to note that the newspaper misspelled his name as “Haycock.”  We normally change these mistakes.  But this time we thought it would be fun to leave it as it was.

We’re also getting the oil changed, tires rotated and a general checkup on our truck, getting it ready for our trip to Sheridan, WY for the National Outlaw and Lawman Association (NOLA) annual rendezvous.  It’s a 2,300 mile round trip. (See our calendar.)

Dakota performed the first of July at Bison Ranch in Overgaard, Arizona with the Mountain Saddle Band.  They sang cowboy songs, and Dakota told some of his true stories about the Old West.

Then they wrapped things up Saturday evening with Old West Chapel.

Here’s a picture of the Mountain Saddle crew.  Going left to right:  Steve Harrington, Pete Dyson, Davylyn Dennison, Blaine Poe Sr., and Blaine Poe Jr.

Hope you had a great Independence Day celebration.  It was sure strange having the 4^th fall on a Tuesday.  Mentioned that to a friend.  He responded by saying, “They ought to change it so the 4^th of July always falls on a weekend.”  

I said, “Ya, sure.  You ought to take that up with the guy who prints the calendars.”  

Now, he’s some high mucky-muck with the state.  And, he might just do it too…at least for Arizona.  You do know we don’t play that daylight savings time game like the rest of you.  I’ll keep you updated on the progress.

Wouldn’t you know it, about the time we get the “On The Road” page up and running again, my email goes down.  Boy, do I love technology.  I really do…when it works.