IT’S THE FIRST FRIDAY OF AUGUST, MEANING IT’S FRONTIERADO! NOW CELEBRATED ON SIX CONTINENTS!
The joyous day is here at last so let’s enjoy our meals of buffalo meat, Tumbleweed Pizzas, Southwest Fried Rice, corn on the cob, Cactus Salad, mashed potatoes and Western Spaghetti ! Later we can wash down some Deuces Wilds (Red or Black) and Cactus Jacks while playing Frontierado Poker or watching Silverado.
BOOT HILL: The name has survived in much western lore as THE name for graveyards filled with gunslingers, outlaws and other stock figures of the Wild West. Today it serves as a blog post in which I focus on the causes of death for many of the men and women who have shown up in my Frontierado items over the years.
TEXAS BEN THOMPSON – Shot to death by multiple gunmen at Jack Harris’ Vaudeville Theater in San Antonio, TX on March 11th, 1884. It was a revenge killing that also claimed Thompson’s friend and fellow gunslinger John “King” Fisher.
DOC HOLLIDAY – Died of natural causes on November 8th, 1887 in Glenwood Springs, CO.
SAM SIXKILLER – Shot to death while unarmed on Christmas Eve of 1886 in Muskogee, OK (still called Indian Territory at the time).
“QUEEN” KITTY LEROY – Shot to death by her own husband in Deadwood, SD’s Lone Star Saloon on December 6th, 1877. Her husband then took his own life. Continue reading
CAPTAIN VICTORY 
Powers: Captain Victory (No relation to the Jack Kirby character of that name) could fly and had massive super strength. The upper limits of his flying abilities and his strength were never established before the character disappeared. 
LIGHTNING GIRL 
The Frontierado holiday is Friday, August 3rd!
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) – 1. MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS ### 2. UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS (IN) COUGARS (Defending Champions) ### 3. REINHARDT UNIVERSITY EAGLES ### 4. LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS ### 5. NORTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS ### 
6. SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE ### 7. DICKINSON STATE BLUE HAWKS ### 8. ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FIRESTORM ### 9. MONTANA TECH OREDIGGERS ### 10. CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX ### 
Frontierado will be here this Friday and who DOESN’T love a 3-day weekend with Friday off instead of Monday! Two days to recover from all your Frontierado parties and cook-outs and late-night movie marathons! 
Time for another round of Transgress With Me. 
*** REMEMBER THE LYRICS TO THE 1960s SONG THAT WENT “HATE YOUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR/ BUT DON’T FORGET TO SAY GRACE” AS A POKE AT MIDDLE-CLASS CHRISTIAN HYPOCRISY? … THESE DAYS THE HYPOCRISY OF LEFT-WING ARCHIE BUNKERS FROM THE 1960s GENERATION COULD BE CRITICIZED WITH LYRICS LIKE “HATE AND THREATEN VIOLENCE AGAINST YOUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR FOR SUPPORTING TRUMP/ BUT DON’T FORGET TO TELL YOURSELF HOW TOLERANT YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE” 
Frontierado is coming up this Friday, August 3rd. The holiday celebrates the myth of the Old West, not the grinding reality. With just a few days remaining until the big day I’ll be squeezing in some last seasonal posts. 
CASH HOLLISTER – Cassius M “Cash” Hollister was born in Cleveland, OH on December 7th of 1845. Cash was a two-fisted and fiery man who felt too constrained living in the citified East. In 1877 he traveled to Kansas, where he did hotel work in Wichita before moving on to Caldwell. 
WICHITA – There was one overriding theme on Friday at the 2018 Jayhawk Conference Football Media Day at Newman University.
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