Greetings all you bored drovers and wranglers. I was just sitting around the bunk house wondering what I could do outside in this mild January weather. I got the idea of hitting up cookie, over at the cook shack, for some number 10 bean cans and going out to the gully behind the barn and burning some powder in the old colt plow handle with a few of my bunkies. The noise attracted the foreman and he came around wanting to know what all the noise was about. When he saw we were just lolly gagging around, he decided to put us to work. "Saddle up your semi-retired cow ponies and get out and scout the fence lines for any breaks in the wire." After riding fence all day we ate chow and retired to the bunk house dead tired. I happened to pick up a dime novel from the stack of old reading material and hit upon a story about Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Then I got to wondering what would be playing at the Rifle and Pistil Club Cowboy Movie Night. Lo and behold, this week's feature is going to be "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid."

"Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" a movie written by Randy Wurlitzer and directed by Sam Peckinpah will be playing. The movie was released in 1973 and runs 155 minutes. The story is about two well known characters of western lore who were not only acquaintances but friends at one time. Pat Garret is made sheriff and hired by the New Mexico Governor and some cattle barons to bring Billy to justice. Pat warns Billy to head to Mexico but Billy ignores the advice and Pat is forced to track him down. History is made at Fort Sumner, New Mexico when Pat catches up to Billy. Pat Garrett, himself, is shot under mysterious circumstances many years later.

The movie is classic Sam Peckinpah with plenty of shoot outs and spurting blood. The cast is classic western starring James Coburn, Kris Kristopherson, Richard Jaeckol, Bob Dylan and a host of familiar character actors such as, Chill Wills, Jack Elam, Jason Robards, Rita Coolidge, Slim Pickens, Barry Sullivan, and Katy Jurado. The sound track was written and performed by Bob Dylan.

Bring something to chew on (no spitting on the floor) and enjoy this classic, Wednesday, January 8th, 6:30 PM.

Scipio Sam AKA Mike