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  1. TPD166

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    "Jimmy Wakely and his Saddle Pals perform at a rodeo - Lakeland, Florida" - 1947. Florida Memory Photograph Collection.
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    Show us your Guns!

    I always wanted a Colt Super 38 & finally got one about 2 years ago - cannot say enough good things about it. Congrats on the 220 - it's on my wish list.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Apparently not everyone got an A-2.
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    A word to men who wear high boots

    I was very fond of my high boots, but have not been able to pull it off since I stopped riding motors in 1985.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    I really don't - just what I've stumbled across online or picked up in few biographies I've read.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Me too - and I think my vintage steer head tie chain is the same (or very similar) to the one in the photo.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Colonel Homer Garrison – Chief of the Rangers and Head of the Texas DPS from 1938 to 1968.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    I am in a Texas state of mind today, so how about some Ranger pictures? Texas Ranger Captains. Seated: Captain Dan Roberts. Standing L to R: Captain J. A. Brooks, Adjutant General W. W. Sterling, Captain Frank A. Hamer, and Captain John R. Hughes. August 30, 1932. Texas Ranger Capt. M.T...
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    Your first hat

    Like others here, I collected all kinds of hats when I was a kid - some wonderful hats including vintage bowlers and a top hat. All are long gone now. In 1982, I visited the newly opened Epcot Center and came home with a wool Indy fedora. While I've spent most my adult life wearing a uniform...
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    In case anyone was wondering, yes, Bob Wills is still the King!
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    Post New Hats Here!

    I picked up this vintage NOS Resistol Western wide-brim, open-crown “straw” with plans of making it into a “Gus” crown. While there is plenty of crown for a Gus crease, the vents made it difficult to come out right (actually doing anything with this crown & brim was not easy!). So, I changed...
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    Show us your Guns!

    An old, well-worn, S&W Model 10 in a very well-made, vintage, unmarked copy of an A.W. Brill holster.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    That may have been who I was thinking of as well.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Frank Hamer did not commit suicide. After he "retired" from the Texas Rangers (he maintained a "Special Ranger" commission afterwards) he did primarily private security work for oil companies, but was recalled for special assignments. Most notably he was appointed a special investigator for...
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    One for Joao. Texas Ranger Harrison Hamer, younger brother of famous Ranger Capt. Frank Hamer.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Texas Ranger Capt. Frank Hamer, 1920s. One of my favorite pictures of Frank Hamer.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Neil Kirkman, first Director of the Florida Highway Patrol, 1939.
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Director John Ford.
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    Show us your Guns!

    Thanks!

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