100th Annual Hyattville Old Timer's Day and National Day of the American Cowboy

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National Day of the American Cowboy & 100^th Annual Hyattville Old Timer’s Day

Sponsored by:
Hyattville Old Timer's Association
Guardians of the Range
Ten Sleep - Hyattville Lion's Club

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Hyattville, Wyoming 

Group Shelter at Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site 

Noon     Old Timer's Picnic - Bring salad or dessert, table service, & lawn chairs
              Announce Old Timer’s Cowboy King & Queen 2009 & Attendants 

Downtown Hyattville 

2 - 6      Street Fair & Farmer's Market - Dee Dryer 469-2292 or Julie Greer 469-2352
              Silent Auction - Donna Mentock 250-2359 or Skip Eastman 469-2289
              Little Buckaroo Dummy Roping
              Critter Rides
              Kid's Western Coloring Contest
              Log Branding - bring your branding irons

              Entertainment      2:00 Larry Ilg
                                            2:30 Hub Whitt
                                            3:00 Rannells family
                                            3:30 Mark Cheshier
                                            5:00 Hub Whitt
                                            5:30 Karhu family

2 - 12    Paintrock Puncher 4-H Club (Fundraiser) - serving food & beverages

2:30      Three-Legged Race & Egg Race

3:30       Parade Line Up south of Hyattville near fork of road

4:00       Cowboy Parade - Horses and Horse-drawn vehicles encouraged.  Contact Linda Hamilton at
              469-2272 or Bill Greer at 469-2352, or log onto websites for map and entry form

6:00       Worn-Out Cowboy Boot Contest - Wear your most worn-out cowboy boots.  Winner of each
               male & female divisions receive $50 gift certificate     

              Awards Ceremony - Honor 100-year old ranches, Announce all Contest and Raffle Winners,
              Announce Winners of Sealed Bids for Livestock Brands, Present Branded Logs to Hyattville
              Community Center

7:30       Street Dance - music by the Cowley Boys

Overnight Camping Spaces available $10, for reservations call Tom 602-881-2933

Old Timer’s Picnic / Dance Ribbons $4 each.  All other events FREE.

Events sponsored by:

Hyattville Old Timer’s Association
Guardians of the Range
 Ten Sleep - Hyattville Lion’s Club


CONTACTS 

Guardians of the Range
Kathleen Jachowski, Executive Director 
307-587-3723  guardians@hughes.net
www.guardiansoftherange.org

Linda Hamilton, President
Hyattville Old Timer's Association
307-469-2272  hri@tctwest.net
www.hyattville.org

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 2008 Old Timer's/NDAC Celebration
Sponsored by Hyattville Old Timers Association,
Guardians of the Range, and
Hyattville/Ten Sleep Lion's Club

                                          Photo Gallery Links below text

Hyattville, Wyoming by Echo Renner – The old west cow town of Hyattville celebrated the National Day of the American Cowboy (NDAC) and the 99^th Annual Old Timer’s Day in true cowboy style on Saturday, July 26^th.  An estimated 200 people attended the celebration.  

Residents of the Big Horn Basin and beyond enjoyed a day of free family fun with a picnic, cowboy parade, street fair, critter rides, lil’ buckaroo dummy roping, worn-out cowboy boot contest, and a live street dance.  Horse races and miniature chuck wagon races added some excitement, in conjunction with a kid’s western coloring contest, silent auction and raffle, and a log branding.  Hub Whitt provided cowboy music throughout the afternoon, and Danny Many Horses thrilled the crowds with his storytelling. 

Hollywood actor, Wilford Brimley, a resident of the nearby community of Shell, enjoyed the day with his wife, even entering a buggy in the cowboy parade.  Rodeo royalty, Greybull Days of ’49 Rodeo Junior Princess, Anna Flitner, was on hand through the merriment, and rode in the parade. 

Emma Karhu won the silver belt buckle in the lil’ buckaroo dummy roping competition.  Linda Hamilton and Dan Rice won the worn-out cowboy boot contest men’s and women’s divisions, respectively, each receiving a $50 gift certificate for new boots.   

The Greer Brothers, Herman Ranch, and the Old Timer’s provided the roast beef for the picnic at the Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site, and the Paintrock Punchers 4-H Club served food and beverages downtown through the afternoon and evening.   

Copies of the book Paintrock Tales and Bonanza Trails, compiled by the Hyattville History Committee from oral and written histories of Hyattville and Bonanza folks, was available during the street fair. 

The Guardians of the Range, Hyattville Old Timer’s Association, and the Ten Sleep - Hyattville Lion’s Club sponsored the revelry.  The Guardians are a non-profit organization dedicated to sound science and community partnership in public land management.  They address grazing issues on behalf of permittees on the Shoshone and Bighorn National Forests, the Cody /Worland / Lander BLM Resource Management areas, and their surrounding communities.  Guardians Executive Director, Kathleen Jachowski says she is thrilled the Guardians could combine their Cowboy Day celebration with the Old Timer’s. 

American Cowboy magazine launched the National Day of the American Cowboy campaign in 2004, to acknowledge and preserve the heritage, history, and culture of America’s cowboys and cowgirls.  The late U.S. Senator Craig Thomas (R-Wyoming) sponsored the first NDAC resolution, and the first NDAC celebration occurred July 23, 2005.  President George W. Bush issued a statement of support for the resolution that same year.  After Senator Thomas’ death in 2007, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) took over as the Senate sponsor in 2008.  The resolution will have to be reintroduced each year until it is officially designated a national day of observance by the President.  The official National Day of the American Cowboy is always the fourth Saturday in July.  

“The Old Timer’s Association is almost 100 years old, and Hyattville is one of the last small ranching communities that is still a ranching community.  The spirit of the West is still alive in Hyattville,” says Bill Greer, long-time Hyattville rancher.  Greer also serves as Vice President of the Guardians of the Range and is a member of the Hyattville Old Timer’s Association.   

Hyattville, a western cow town at the base of the Big Horn Mountains, was founded in the 1880’s and known originally as Paintrock until 1886, when Sam W. Hyatt became its first postmaster.  Asa Mercer, author of the highly controversial – and now highly sought after – book, The Banditti of the Plains, also made Hyattville his home.

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                                       Horse/Mule/Chuckwagon Race Gallery

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