GUNSMOKE 1955-1975 / Festus or Chester???

[gyusher]

Originally Posted by Toasted Almond

And a couple days ago I found the Lorne Greene album with Ringo on it. Not in bad shape.

My family is from Kansas (Usher). They settled there and I am fascinated by their history. I can and do spend hours just searching around early Kansas history especially Dodge City. My people are Topeka and Lincoln (Salinas). My avatar is an 1875-80 cowboy taken during those years.

The only thing I remember was my Grandaddy Guy's 2 white horses and bringing them in from a severe cold when crossing a large stream one had a heart attack and the other one just stood there and froze to death. I guess they were some kind of matched pair that he was famous for and he lost both of them that same day. . . All I know was that it was cold cold cold. I was about 6 years old 1950 or there abouts.

My Father was in the Air Force stationed at Roswell where we lived from 1944 until around 1950-52 when I moved to Georgia. Yes we were in Roswell in 47. . . I tried to get my Dad to talk all his life even resorted to getting him drunk in his wheel chair in his later years and all he would do was tell me to get his medals out and look at them. . . He never said a word. I do remember walking into a room where he and his buddy Curtis Le-May(pardon the spelling) were talking about Roswell and they shut up quickly. You could cut the air with a butter knife. I was about 16 or 17 then. They used to go duck hunting on the Spokane river in those days.

Shoot. . .ENOUGH of this memory lane stuff. . .