GETTING A LITTLE HISTORY SORTED OUT TODAY

We spent our morning as we do a lot of mornings just sitting around a campfire reading & soaking up the warming rays of the day’s early sun.  Birds at the feeders, Doves in the Pine trees & the Swisshelm Mountains filling our eastern horizon.  No traffic sounds, no industrial sounds & no neighbor sounds.  Just the hauntingly beautiful quiet strains of John Huling, Robert Haig Coxon, Steven Halpern, Paul Horn & Coyote Oldman drifting lazily out of our Bose into the air & mixing with our Mesquite tinged campfire smoke.  We are sooooo fortunate.

WHEN CHECKERS FIGURES SHE HAS WALKED FAR ENOUGH IN THE MORNING SHE JUST LAYS DOWN & WAITS FOR US TO TURN AROUND

I have added my latest Bisbee photos to the BISBEE ALBUM & they can be seen at the beginning of the album so you don’t have to scroll though all the older photos.  I will continue adding to this album as photos become available from our visits to Bisbee.

Here’s an RV couple sight-seeing around San Diego at the moment & taking advantage of the public transportation system to get around.  They have already met some interesting ‘characters’ on the Trolley rapid transit system.  Check out, HUGH & KATHY'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE.

I THINK THESE 2 HAWKS & OWL GET QUITE A ‘CHARGE’ OUT OF THIS POLE

Over in Kentucky, Barry & Denise from RUBBER RATS contemplate their future RV travel plans while Barry reflects back upon a military career.  They are saying good-bye to their son heading back for another tour of duty in South Korea.  OUR AMERICAN SOLDIER.

Today the Bayfield Bunch welcomes our two newest blog Followers.  Thanks for your support Georgina & nice to have you along:))  John Souva III from JOHN'S JOURNEY is our latest supporter & here’s a fellow with a great attitude, a love of the outdoors & an ambition to get out there & continue his exciting travel adventures.  Thanks for dropping by John:))

 

A LITTLE WORK HAPPENING ON OUR ROAD THIS MORNING

Well, I had quite a time with myself today sleuthing out a piece of history I had mentioned in yesterday’s blog about  Billy The Kid being involved with the GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL.  I received the following email this morning from Charlie Harris which said…{Quote} Great pics as usual on your blog, but got to tell you that Billy the Kid died on July 14, 1881, a few months before the Tombstone shootout.{Unquote}  Well, after a quick internet search I see that Charlie is totally correct.

HAVING A BIG SNOOZE ON DAD’S BED THIS MORNING

Needless to say, that got me scrambling for the truth because I had never heard of Billy The Kid being at that gunfight either but had based my Billy The Kid & OK Corral connection on the testimony of Tombstones then Sheriff John H. Behan when he said in part, (according to the book) {Quote)} “We went to where Ike Clanton & Tom McLowry were standing.”  I said to them, “Boys you must give up your arms.”  Billy Clanton & William Claiborne alias Billy The Kid, were also there. {Unquote}  Ok, now this is where it gets a bit complicated but also where things begin to get cleared up.

HAD TO JUMP START THE OLD GREEN GHOST TODAY

William ‘Billy The Kid’s’ last name was Clairborne spelled with an ‘r’.   William Claiborne who was the fellow at the OK corral spelled his name without an ‘r.’  Claiborne of the OK Corral conflict was also a notorious character & was himself killed in Tombstone on November 14th 1882 over a year later.  So, in fact, there were two guys both with similar sounding last names.  One was truly Billy The Kid & the other fellow was killed in the following ironic manner which also involved the name…Billy The Kid.  Wikipedia states the following about WILLIAM CLAIBORNE'S death…{Quote}He became involved in an argument with noted gunfighter "Buckskin" Frank Leslie, after Leslie refused to refer to Claiborne as "Billy the Kid". Later that night, Claiborne returned to the Oriental Saloon, where he drunkenly called out Leslie. Awaiting him outside the saloon with a rifle, Leslie followed Claiborne out a side-door onto the street and killed Claiborne in the ensuing gunfight with a single shot to the chest. Claiborne allegedly said to Leslie, "Don't shoot me anymore, I'm killed". He was taken to a doctor by friends, where he died six hours after being shot. By some accounts, his last words were "Frank Leslie killed Johnny Ringo, I saw him do it".  (MY JOHNNY RINGO GRAVESITE BLOG)

Now, while I’m at it, here is another discrepancy I found.  The book, ‘When All Roads Led To Tombstone’ spells the name of the McLowry brothers as McLowry.  Wikipedia spells the name McLaury.  So, which is it??  For that I had to dig through my Tombstone photos of Boot Hill a few years ago….and there it was on the tombstones…'McLaury.’

For anyone interested in my recent Tombstone blog they can find it here…TOMBSTONE BLOG

Wednesday morning will find Kelly & I leading a small group of folks to Fort Rucker in the Chiricahua Mountains:))

GROANER’S CORNER:((  Two tourists were driving through Louisiana. As they were approaching Natchitoches, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the town. They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch.  As they stood at the counter, one tourist asked the employee, "Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are... very slowly?"

The girl leaned over the counter and said, "Burrrrrrrr, gerrrrrrr, Kiiiiing."

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