kBob
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When Lee Gramling was working on his "Cracker Cowboy" (Pineapple press) he belonged to "The Gainesville Speculative Literature Society" aka "Hoggetown Science Fiction Club" of Gainesville, FL. Knowing I was a certified gun nut he asked what I thought of arming his main character with a Walker in a belt holster....and quick drawing. I gave him my opinions but he wrote it that way anyhow. I tried t convince him that he needed to purchase a Repro Walker and play with it a bit, but he did not do so before publishing the book. There are or have been a number of Cracker Cowboy re enactors about this part of the state. My mailman's character carried an 1851 Colt Repro. Not sure if re enactor is the right thing to call him as he really did make a living as a cowboy in his youth. First saddle he actually owned bought with his own cash was a Mc Clellon bought at surplus from the University of Florida ROTC department in the late 1940's. There are a few folks in the area that raise cracker cows and a few even have ugly red nosed hounds. Fredrick Remington said the Florida Cracker Cowboy was the meanest of all cowboys.....grrrrr! BTW our mare has a little Colt of her own now, the kids want to call his stable name Star and The Spouse and I are partial to Rocky. My idea of calling him either Walker or Dragoon was immediately shot down by all. The girls are training him with Clinton Anderson's techniques and I have not introduced him to "Loud Noises" yet. His Mom is scitzo on gun shots, one day she comes to see what I am doing and the next she screams in terror and sprints about the pasture insanely.
-kBob
-kBob
