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Jeudi 15 novembre 2007 4 15 /11 /Nov /2007 14:45
Pour toutes celles et tous ceux que - comme moi - le far west a fait rêver étant petit.

J'ai trouvé sur internet un site, le cow-boy code, qui dresse la liste des pionners & cowboys membres de l'Ordre maçonnique.

Je n'ai pu résister à la tentation de réproduire cette liste ci-dessous:

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Acuff, Roy - "King of Country Music".

Arnold, Eddie
- Country Music legend and member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Austin, Stephen F.
- American colonizer and political leader who worked to make Texas a state of Mexico but later helped Texas settlers gain their independence (1836). Known as the 'Father of Texas'.

Autry, Gene
- American actor who made some 90 movies from the 1930s through the 1950s, cowboy singer ("Back in the Saddle Again" and more), and professional sports team owner (owner of the California Angels baseball team). Many young people today have grown up listening to his rendition of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer".

Boone, Daniel
- U. S. pioneer.

Bowie, James
- American-born Mexican colonist who joined the Texan forces during the struggle for independence from Mexico. He died during the defense of the Alamo.

Carson, Christopher "Kit"
- Frontiersman, scout and explorer.

Clark, Roy
- Country-Western star and singer; member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Clark, William
- American explorer and frontier politician who joined another Freemason, Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Clemens, Samuel L.
- Mark Twain - Writer and humorist.

Cody, "Buffalo Bill" William
- American guide, scout and showman, he founded the "Wild West Show" which toured Europe and America. Cody, Wyoming is named after him.

Colt, Samuel
- Firearms inventor and manufacturer. He invented the first revolver.

Crockett, David ('Davy')
- Frontiersman and politician. US Representative from Tennessee who joined the Texas revolutionaries fighting against. Mexico. He died at the siege of the Alamo.

Dodge, Henry
- First U.S. Marshal in Missouri, Governor of Wisconsin Territory, Senator from Wisconsin.

Easton, Rufus
- First postmaster west of the Mississippi River.

Gatling, Richard J.
- Inventor of the famous "Gatling Gun".

Houston, Sam
- American general who became the 2nd&4th President of the Republic of Texas. When Texas was admitted to the Union, he served as US senator and governor.

Lewis, Meriwether
- American soldier and explorer.

Marshall, James W.
- Discovered Gold at Sutter's Mill California 1848.

Mix, Tom
- Champion rodeo rider, soldier and cowboy, he stared in over 400 western films

Murphy, Audie
- Most decorated American Soldier of WWII, he also achieved fame as an actor in movies (Westerns) .

Rogers, Roy
(Leonard Franklin Slye) - "King of the Cowboys".

Travis, Colonel William B.
- American military leader who commanded the Texans who died in defense of the Alamo.

Wayne, John
- "The Duke".


Pour aller plus loin :

La page web : The cow-boy code
Un article sur mon bloc-note : Remember Alamo : Les Frères du Fort (à propos de Fort Alamo).
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