the northfield gazette

January, 2004

MATCH RESULTS

  • Top Gun: Durde Dugan
  • Traditional: Durde Dugan
  • Ladies Traditional: Irish Eyes
  • Modern: Pecos Clyde
  • Ladies Modern…
  • Duelist: Frito Bandito
  • Ladies Duelist…
  • 49er: Swifty Swede
  • Ladies 49er: Calamity Candy
  • Gunfighter: Johnny Mack Brown
  • Ladies Gunfighter: Belle Pepper
  • Classic Cowboy: Bodie 601
  • Senior: T. L.
  • Ladies Senior: Shy Ann
  • Senior Duelist: Hyatt Earp
  • Junior: Kissin’ Kate
  • Frontier Cartridge…
  • Frontiersman…

 

The match was swept clean by

Bronco Lane

 

NEXT MATCH:

January 18th

 

Desperado Declares

It turned out to be a wonderful day for shooting.  We had great stages and lots of fun shooting them.  It’s always fun getting out there with our old friends and making some new ones too.

We thank Miss Amanda for coming back and running the cook shack while Lane was out of town.  And also the cook shack crew for their hard work every month.

Hope you had a wonderful holiday and that you have a very Happy New Year.

 

THANKS TO OUR VENDORS

Quilted Pillows

and

D. Trader

Vendors are welcome at all our matches
and there’s no charge to set up.

Our thanks to:

Bodie 601,
Rusty Gunn,
and Rumshot

for donating prizes.

Honest to gosh Cowboy Coffee

Okay, as some of you gunslingers guessed, last month’s recipe for cowboy coffee was more leg pulling than straight shooting, but this month we’ve got the genuine article.  We got it from Joanne Fluke whose fictional sleuth, Hannah Swensen, runs The Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota (not far from Northfield.)

“I've had cowboy coffee in the basement of a Lutheran Church at a Minnesota Church Supper.  It won't work in a modern drip coffeemaker, because the water just doesn't get hot enough and the coffee drips through the basket of grounds just once.  To make it, you'll need an old-fashioned coffee pot that boils the coffee.  I have an old blue enamel pot with white speckles that I use when I want to make it.  (It's an old Swedish method, I think, and the coffee really is delicious -- it's also very clear and lighter-colored, but every bit as strong.)  Just fill the pot with cold water, 3/4 full, and set it on the stove or campfire to boil.  Then dump the amount of coffee grounds that you would normally use in a small bowl, wash the outside of an egg, crack it and mix it in, and then also add the shell.  Watch your coffee pot carefully.  When it comes almost to the boil, dump in the coffee ground mix and stir.  Then wait until the first bubbles of the boil appear.  Once that happens, stir again until it reaches the boil, pull it off the burner before it can boil over, and dump in a cup or two of ice cold water.  (This settles the grounds.)  Sit back and enjoy!”

OUR SCHEDULE for 2004:

January 18, February 22. March 21, April 18, May 16, June 20, July 18, August 22, September 19, November 21, and December 19.

And The Great Northfield raid on October 15-17.

Mandatory Shooter’s Meeting at 9:00 AM -- Shooting starts at 9:15 AM.