tarfu
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Post by tarfu on Jun 7, 2009 19:12:10 GMT -5
i finished the copy of 'hell , i was there' that MB sent me...
i'd forgotten just how much crap elmer went thru in his life , exceptin' the fire in the hotel when he was a kid...
i never did get up there to visit him years ago , i was at a gunshow and one of the old guys told me he'd had a stroke and was in bad shape , so that put paid to that idea...(anyone remember what year ?)
long ago and far away now...
we won't see any more like him , this country won't allow such people to exist in a few years...
whos left of the old crowd , i've been trying to remember and getting nowhere fast...?
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Post by Mountaineer on Jun 7, 2009 19:47:06 GMT -5
We lost Elmer in February 1984. I remember well learning of his death. Certainly there will never be another like him.
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Post by crazyhorse on Jun 7, 2009 21:31:44 GMT -5
I remember Feb 1984 well. I was a Senior in high school and I lost two of my heros that month. The 1st was my Grandpaw and 2nd was Elmer Keith. I can remember hiding and reading EK stories in school. There probably is not a senior in high school now that can tell you who EK was. I never got to meet Elmer but I did meet and visit with Bill Jordan before he passed away. They don't make them like Bill and Elmer anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Lee Martin on Jun 8, 2009 7:43:43 GMT -5
I just re-read Sixguns a few months back. The chapter on reloading is the best I've ever seen on the topic.....a must read for anyone that shoots. -Lee www.singleactions.com |
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Post by inFALable on Jun 8, 2009 9:02:07 GMT -5
Well my good buddie Lee Jurras is doing well. He was friends with EK, Skeeter, Major Nonte, Col. Askins, Lt Col. Cooper and all the old guard.
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ChrisO
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Post by ChrisO on Jun 8, 2009 10:55:19 GMT -5
I was 22yrs old back then and remember reading in a magazine, poss Guns & Ammo that he had died a month or so ago. I could'nt beleive it. No computers back then to find out things happened, when they happened !
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Len
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Post by Len on Jun 8, 2009 11:08:10 GMT -5
I believe it was a year before he died 1983 that I heard he was in a nursing home and in bad shape
Len
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daryl
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Post by daryl on Jun 8, 2009 13:32:46 GMT -5
Crazyhorse,
You were a senior the same year that I was, and I remember that year all too well. My grandfather had passed the previous March, but his birthday was the same as mine: Feb 6th. That reminder, plus Elmer's passing made it a sad time.
I still enjoy reading EK's writings.
Daryl
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Post by Mountaineer on Jun 8, 2009 13:56:57 GMT -5
Found a rather interesting web site devoted to EK at www.elmerkeithshoot.org. Includes photographs provided by Taffin, links to this forum, etc... |
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Post by nobearsyet on Jun 8, 2009 16:27:25 GMT -5
I know, I wasn't even a year old when Elmer died, but to hell if I didn't wish I was 20 years older today. Would have liked to have got ot know him and Skeeter, but now we have guys that I think are right on par with the 2 of them, namely John Taffin, John Connor, Mike Venturino (yeah, I said it), and Bryce Towsley
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Post by cstokes on Jun 8, 2009 17:46:55 GMT -5
In June 1986 I passed through Deming, NM on my way to and from The American Pistol Institute. I still hate I didn't try to look up Skeeter Skelton and meet him. I just felt it would have been rude to show up at his house uninvited and unannounced.
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robl
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These were the good ole days!
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Post by robl on Jun 8, 2009 19:52:58 GMT -5
I wrote to him in the hospital circa 82-83 after he had his stroke. Ted (If I recall correctly wrote back).
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