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June 2012 - Vol 4, Issue 6
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Feature Story
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 Me and the Music By Don Hedgpeth My Daddy came home from World War II with an arch top Gretsch guitar. He knew and could play and sing most all of the songs that were on the radio back then by the Hanks (Williams, Thompson and Snow), Ernest Tubb and he particularly liked Red Foley. Some of my earliest memories are of the West Texas beer joints and honkytonks where Daddy fronted a four-piece country band called the Ross City Wranglers. Saturday nights were family affairs in those places. Kids could run and play in the unpaved parking lot, and wander in and out of the dance halls to listen to the music. I also remember the nights we would have company come to visit, or go to someone else's house. The men usually sat in the kitchen playing music and drinking beer. The women sat and talked in another room. All those houses seemed the same: just small shotgun shacks that were the common accommodation all over the West Texas oil fields.
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Featured Photography by Myron Beck
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Did You Know?
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1. San Ildefonso is one of the eight Northern Pueblos, located south of Santa Clara, well known for red and black pottery, especially for black on black technique.
2. Lewis and Clark never knew it, but the Spanish sent out four expeditions between August, 1804 and August, 1806 to try and stop them. However, they failed in their mission as they were consistently turned back by the Indians. However, on one occasion they came close - near Red Cloud, Nebraska they were within 140 miles. 3. Cradleboard is a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
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Linda's Feed Bag
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Father's Day: Give him beef! (and mashed potatoes - add a green vegetable, your choice)
To the right: my father....
Rosemary-Pepper
Beef Rib Roast
(For the FATHER in your life)
Ingredients:
¼ cup chopped fresh Rosemary
3 tbs ground black pepper, plus more for seasoning. Coarse is better than fine
3 tbs olive oil
One 6-rib standing beef rib roast (14-16 lbs) - ask the butcher to leave ½" fat cap on the meat
Salt
3 tbs butter
1 medium shallot - chopped fine
2 large garlic cloves, thinly sliced
¼ cup dry red wine
1 qt beef stock (or canned broth - low sodium)
¼ cup sherry vinegar
4 Thyme sprigs
1 oz dried porcini mushrooms (1 cup) ground to powder in a spice grinder or blender
Instructions:
1. Combine rosemary, 3 tbs black pepper, oil and rub over the roast. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
2. Put a large roasting pan in the middle of the oven and preheat to 375°. Be sure the roast sits at room temperature for at least 30 minutes.
3. Season the roast with salt and place in the pan, fat side down. Roast 30 minutes. Turn it over (fat side up) and cook 350° for approx 3 hours. If your oven is not even, be sure to rotate the pan a couple of times.
4. Insert a thermometer into the thickest part of the meat. It should register 130° for medium-rare. Transfer to carving board and let it rest for around 20 minutes. DO NOT PICK AT IT- that's cheating.
5. In a saucepan, melt butter, add shallot, garlic and cook until lightly browned. Add the wine and boil for 2 minutes. Add the stock, vinegar and thyme and bring to a boil. Simmer over moderate heat for about 20 minutes. It will reduce somewhat. Whisk in porcini powder and simmer 1 minute. Cover, remove from the heat and let stand for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with meat.
Serve with mashed potatoes. Not just meek, bland mashed potatoes. Add the  following for 6 pounds of Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks and boiled for 20 minutes and drained and mashed:
4 tbs butter
1 cup low-fat sour cream
1 tsp black pepper
6 tbs finely chopped chives
2/3 cup bread crumbs
1/3 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (just buy it grated - do not bother taking the time to grate it yourself!)
Give Dad a "cold one" and show him some love!
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Help us "Put on the Feed Bag!" Appetize us with your favorite cowboy cuisine. Send us a recipe or culinary creation - keeping the traditions of the American West alive is about the great food too! From ribs to rhubarb, campfire food to a great bowl of chili - we Wild West epicureans want to know.
Submissions welcome at SmokeSignals@highnoon.com.
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Antique and Contemporary Western Shopping Weekend at Brian Lebel's 23rd Annual Old West Show & Auction
On June 22-24, 2012, Brian Lebel's Old West Show returns to the Denver Merchandise Mart Expo Building for its annual weekend dealer show and sale. Once a small event in Cody, Wyoming, the Denver Old West Show now boasts over 200 dealers and exhibitors from around the world. Thousands attend to buy, sell, and trade authentic Cowboy and Indian art, artifacts, collectibles and fine merchandise. Museums, authors and non-profits round-out the exhibitors. Saturday night features the Denver Old West Auction, 400 lots of fine Western art and artifacts.
Visit the website or facebook page for details, discount coupons and catalog sales.
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Show Dealer Spotlight
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Darryl Abernathy
Sonora West Trading, Payson, AZ
"I may have a '9-5' job, but I eat, sleep and drink the Cowboy and Indian thing..."
by Jayne Skeff
It was his '9-5' that had me feeling like a stalker trying to wrangle him in for an interview. After several reschedules, we finally got it done and he was so much fun to talk to!
Intrigued at first without knowing what his '9-5' was, he began by saying, "everyday I wake up wondering what I'll find today." But as the conversation went on, turns out he has the perfect job to continue his hunt. More on that a bit later...
Let's go way back (well, not that far, Darryl's only in his 40s). "When I was a little kid growing up near Longmont, Colorado, there was this little Indian trading post near us where I used to spend a lot of time. This is where I got my first taste of Western stuff. I just loved it then as I do now."
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Reel Cowboys of Western Cinema A Century of Silver Screen Heroes on Horseback
By Gary Eugene Brown A continuing series on the leading men who made western films a special art form. Many, in the beginning, had been actual working cowboys; while others were accomplished actors who applied their craft in such a manner as to appear as though they had just rode into Hollywood on horseback. This is the story of one of them. HARRY CAREY
When two of the most respected cowboy icons pay homage to a former stage actor from the Bronx, one takes notice. Will Rogers said Harry Carey "was the most human and natural of the Western actors." John Wayne hailed him as "the greatest Western actor of all time." In addition, the legendary director John Ford who once remarked "[Harry] Carey was a great actor," dedicated his 1948 film, Three Godfathers to "Harry Carey - the Bright Star of the early Western Sky." However, if it wasn't for Harry Carey, we might not have heard of John Ford. The story begins in New York City on January 16, 1878.
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October 6-7, 2012 Will James Society 20th Gather Elko, NV
October 12, 2012 Traditional Cowboy Arts Association 14th Annual Sale & Exhibition Oklahoma City, OK
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October 13-14, 2012 The Golden California Antiques Show Glendale, CA
October 19, 2012 Buckaroo Bash Indianapolis, IN
October 25-28, 2012 10th Annual Southeastern Cowboy Festival and Symposium Cartersville, GA
October 31 - November 4, 2012 Heber City's Cowboy Poetry Gathering & Buckaroo Fair Heber City, UT
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Mission Statement
Smoke Signals blows your way from High Noon Western Americana of Los Angeles, CA, producers of
the High Noon Antique Show & Auction held each January in Mesa (Phoenix), Arizona since 1991.
Our magazine was founded in 2010 from our desire to share thoughts and facts with and from our High Noon family. We write about what we know (cowboy and Indian artifacts), highlight dealers and collectors, their thoughts and memories. We also love to feed our readers with great recipes. We offer free western music, a look at factoids intrinsic to our interests, give you insight into the newest books and tell you what is going on across the United States.
And hopefully we educate along the way.
Linda Kohn Sherwood, Editor
Send us a Smoke Signal
Smoke Signals is for and about all of the wonderful people in our High Noon family. If you have news you want to share, hot tips on what's going on in the Western Americana world or just a suggestion of something you'd like to see us cover, send us an email at smokesignals@highnoon.com
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Chief Publisher: High Noon Western Americana
Chief Editor: Linda Kohn Sherwood
Chief Art Director: Robin Ireland, Ireland Graphic Design
Chief Graphic Designer: Curtis Hill, Art Direction Services
Chief Writer: Jayne Skeff, JSLA Media Solutions
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