Well! We have survived turkey, dressing, and the works of last weekend. Also, we have had one of those girl talks with our little Sadie earlier this week. You know... the bird, bees and little boy dogs talk. Sadie turned 7-months old Tuesday, November 29, 2005 and started her first heat. She is seen here wearing her little denim pants. Someone ask me if we were going to get her spayed. The final decision is still being thought through. BUT... the thoughts for now are to let her have a litter of puppy pugs before she gets spayed.

Last week we mentioned about the snow we had in the Colorado Rockies last year at about this time (15 to 16 inhes or more). We failed to tell you that this years snow is considerably lower in accumulated inches, drier. We did get some snow the last part of this week, but we are still behind from last years snowfall. Hope it really snows.... SOON!

As for the unleaded regular gas prices this week, Bayfield, Colorado is down by one-cent this weekend ($2.419). Diesel was $2.79 at Bayfield, Colorado. One of our readers last week mentioned in the comments that North Carolina was $2.039. An OKC (Oklahoma City) reader mentioned that Thanksgiving Eve gas was $1.86. Have you seen it lower than that?

Here at the OkieLegacy we are always looking for histories, legacies to share each week. If you have memories of general stores, school, farming/ranching, sports, weddings, sweetshops, millinery shops and other retail businesses on the plains of Oklahoma Terriotry, please share them with us. You can Email Linda (paristimes@earthlink.net or mcwagner.lk@gmail.com) -- or -- You can snail-mail your history and photos to Linda Wagner, PO Box 619, Bayfield, Colorado 81122-0619. We will return your original photos, BUT... we would rather have a copy to work with. Thanks for helping us learn, preserve our heritage this year.

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Jogging Memory Cells...

Sandie, with the Waynoka Historical Society, is looking for information on the Linden Hotel. Not sure where this Linden Hotel was located, but if that name jogs any memories cells out there, please contact us here at OkieLegacy or Sandie Olson at Waynoka Historical Society. Thanks!

Then there is the HEUETT family that is looking for "WHY" the HEUETT family moved from Woodward County, Oklahoma to Lamar County, Colorado around 1920. AND... any other information that you might have on the HEUETT family.

We are going to leave you with this to think about that another reader sent us this week. "The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Buckhorn Exchange - Denver, CO...

The first part of this week we had traveled to Denver, Colorado on family business and stopped at the "Buckhorn Exchange" for lunch. Of course, this was before the snow fell later in the week around Denver.

The Buckhorn Exchange, located at 1000 Osage Street & 10th Avenue, in Denver, Colorado is Colorado's most historic eating and drinking emporium in it's second century of operation. AND... Great Food & Atmosphere! It was started in 1893 by Henry H. "Shorty Scout" Zietz.

It is recorded in history, in 1875, that Henry (10 years of age) met Col. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. At age 12 years young Henry was a full-fledged member of the hard-riding, straight-shooting band of scouts. It was during this time with Buffalo Bill that Chief Sitting Bull dubbed Henry Zietz as "Shorty Scout" because of his diminutive stature. Shorty Scout became a lifelong friend to the Indian. The last of Cody's famous scout band was gone when Shorty Scout died in July, 1949

Then there was the time that Sitting Bull's nephew and a band of thirty Sioux and Blackfeet Indians came by one day and ceremoniously turned over to "Shorty" the military saber taken from the vanquished General George Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The sword remains in the possession of the Zeitz family.

There are lots of wild game lining the walls of the Buckhorn Exhange. There is also a fabulous gun collection that includes Colt .45s, Winchesters, flintlocks, smooth bores, Derringers, repeating rifles and even a rare palm pistol.

A great deal has changed at the Buckhorn since 1893. Much of it is as it was in the days when, silver barons rubbed elbows with roustabouts, miners shook dirt out of their clothing along with the gold dust, and "Shorty Scout" entertained the customers with tales of the decade he sent on the frontier.

The next time you are in Denver, Colorado, travel over to 10th Avenue & Osage Street for a delicous meal and fill your senses with a look back into Colorado's frontier past.

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Gem of the Prairie...

Some have called us "A Gem of the Prairie." Others have shared their specialized auto tags with us. AND... Over the seven years that we have been putting out our Oakie's Heart To Heart & The OkieLegacy ezine/newsletter, we have noticed that our spelling of "Oakie" has slowly crepted up online by others. It humbles and amazes us the affect that the "OkieLegacy" has had on others over this past seven years.

Like I said, "It's been seven years" that I started spelling Okie with an "a", Oakie, to represent the Okie as a steady, sturdy oak tree that could withstand anything that came their way. AND... the spelling of "Oakie" was to distinguish this "NW Okie" from others. We wanted to inspire others to rethink the use of the term "Okie." Instead of being a negative, derogatory term, we wanted to reinvent a more positive term that Oklahoman's would be proud to be called Okie.

Some of those REAL "Gems of the Prairies" were Okie's. That is why we here at OkieLegacy look upon the term Okie as something to be proud.

On another note, The OkieLegacy became a member of IPA (Independent Press Association) this week. We understand that IPA is having their Winter convention the last part of January, 2006, in San Francisco, California this Winter. Not sure our schedule will allow us to attend, but it sounds interesting. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Have You Heard of the Linden Hotel...

"Would you ask your readers if any of them have heard of the Linden Hotel? A friend is going through old family pictures, and has a good-sized photograph mounted on cardboard of the Linden Hotel. Thank you for any help." -- Sandie Olson, Waynoka Historical Society View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Dog Stays Close To Speakerphone...

"Yep, looks like Duchess is soooo patient with Sadie! That is so cute. I sure know what you mean about not knowing what you would do without them! Me too!
Thought you might get a chuckle out of something my hubby told me about what my bulldog did when I went to see my mother in New Hampshire for a week.

We have a speaker phone. Last year hubby used it to let me 'talk' to my bully because he was soooo stressed out I was gone (he is my shadow). Anyway, this year, my hubby would turn on the speakerphone so I could 'talk' to the dogs - which seemed to help them quite a bit hearing my voice. This seemed to alleviate both the dogs stress ... and mine. Anyway, they apparently figured out that that particular 'thing' (phone) was the way to hear my voice. So ... being the smart guy he is, he decided to try to get the phone to get my voice himself! Hubby said he hadn't gotten any telephone calls that day (which was unusual) and Gunner (my shadow) was very quiet. Plus he couldn't see him so he went into the den - which is where we have that phone. There laid Gunner next to the phone (hubby had it on the floor) looking at hubby so sad. Hubby said the receiver was off the hook and pulled way away from the phone - which had been on the hook before. He asked Gunner if he was trying to call me and Gunner got up and started prancing and jumping all over the place. Hubby called me and we 'talked' and he said Gunner was fine after that.

Go figure. He said before that incident, Gunner would go over to the phone and get so excited when hubby said he was going to call me that he just pranced around and grinned from ear to ear (of course, that COULD have just been hubby's interpretation). BUT... another time he said Gunner came to hubby's 'hidy hole' room with a toy in his mouth. He said he just stood in the doorway, dropped the toy, and let out a single bark (which is unusual for Gunner to do). Hubby thought he had to go potty so started for the back door. Gunner stopped in the den by the speakerphone, sat down and gave another single bark. Hubby told him to come on but he wouldn't budge. Said he then started just barking and pawing at the phone. Now is that a smarty or what? Anyway, it worked. Hubby called and Gunner was content.

Okay, so those things are ridiculous to do for a dog ... but it IS funny! Now all I have to do is to teach him how to use the speed dial or the voice dial system and .... he's on his own.) Have a great week and thanks so much for the pictures. LOVE THEM!" View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Gem of the Prairie...

What is it with dogs and computers... I rescue dogs, and my youngest sits outside the office door and howls her head off until I get so annoyed I will finally let her in. Then she prances around like a princess, and plunks down right by my chair and goes to sleep! Go figure!

I am so thankful for all of your good work... you are a real 'gem of the prairies,' even if you don't live here any more!" View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

AHS Goldbug 30th In May 2006...

"My 30th is coming up in May. What are the plans as I want to be involved, though I live in Houston. Let those other Goldbugs that Ron is takin over." -- Ron Kennedy - Email: okieshot21@yahoo.com View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Heuett Family of Woodward Co., Okla. (1910-1911)...

"I would very much appreciate any assistance you can offer in regard to the HEUETT family, members of which received land patents in Woodward County, Oklahoma in 1910 and 1911. The family apparently lived there only a brief period as they are found in Lamar County, Colorado census records in 1920. Could you shed light on why they came to the county and why they moved?

The father was Edwin Wilson Heuett, born 1844 in Virginia. He (and his wife, Maria Elizabeth PAGE, born 1852, Iowa) received Woodward Land Patent #10811 on June 29, 1911.

The 1910 census reflects their residence as Texas County, Oklahoma.

Their son Arthur, born 1885 in Missouri, also lived in Texas County in 1910 and married his wife Sarah Ella Hargrove, born 1891 Indiana, in Texas County in 1908. His Land Patent in Woodward County #20613 is dated June 12, 1911.

Another son, Aden b. 1883, Missouri, lived in Driftwood, Woods County, in 1910, with his wife Nellie Alice Appel b. 1885 in Kansas. Aden's Land Patent was Woodward #10809 dated February 7, 1910.

Hiram b. 1878 in Missouri and his wife Bertha Crist b. 1884 in Missouri lived in Driftwood in 1910 and their patent was Woodward #10994.

The 1910 census reflects that Claude b. 1887 in Missouri lived in Frizlin Township (his wife Gail Majors lived with her parents in Driftwood also in 1910).

1910 census also lists Edwin and Marie's daughters: Mable b. 1890, Rose b. 1893, and Irene b. 1896, who were all born in Missouri, living together in a separate residence in Driftwood. Finally, another daughter, Elsie b. 1881 in Missouri, lived with her husband Joseph Vanwey." -- Denese Heuett - Email: denese707@bresnan.net View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Unleaded Regular - Perry, Okla...

"This morning (Tuesday, November 29th.) I noticed that the gasoline prices here in Perry, Oklahoma have dropped again at the Phillips 66, the 2 independent, and the Conoco stations in town to a price of $1.95.9 for regular unleaded gasoline." -- Roy View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Fox Indian Finds OkieLegacy...

"I am a Fox Indian and found this a cool site." -- Jami - Email: Jami_Ham@msn.com

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Looking Back & Moving Forward...

"I thought of you and your ezine when I read this: The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt." -- Weaselskin View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

OAKIE& ME OKIE - Texas Tags...

"Dear Linda, Duchess and Sadie - Enclosed is yoru early Christmas present, my last year's and current Texas license plates from my little Nissan Truck. The ME OKIE is from last year and OAKIE is this year's tag in your honor. Three years ago it was I B OKIE. Maybe you can get other Okie readers from around the country to order and send you their old Okie car tags for a spectacular wall display in your office. ENJOY!!!" -- Dale in Texas View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Cowboy Christmas Prayer...

"Thank you for having the Cowboy Christmas Prayer available. We have a Cowboy Church and I will be reading this at Christmas Eve service. " -- Marie - Email: imneil@nwi.net View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Santa Fe Depot & Oklahoma Gas Prices...

"Yesterday's Perry Daily Journal shows that our BNSF train depot is being restored and I've scanned in the article for you. The depot is just a block east of my business and two blocks east of our county's "courthouse square'.
Here we go again! On Thursday the prices went back up to $1.96.9 and this morning (Saturday, 12/3/05) I saw that they'd been increased to $1.99.9. I have no idea why they're going back up. A friend said that they were still down to $1.86.9 at one of the stations in Oklahoma City this past Wednesday." -- Roy View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe