We use to do the OK Corral and the gunfight between Wild Bill and Dave Tut. We quit doing the gunfight because once we were really yelled at from a School Teacher that brought her son. We explained that Wild Bill and Dave Tut were having the fight over a pocket watch that was an heirloom won in a poker game but that there was animosity between them over a woman that use to be Wild Bill's girlfriend and then became Dave Tuts and that was more than likely what the gunfight was over. She blew up about tellin that a man was shot over the love of a woman. So we don't do that one anymore. With the train the main thing we do is a Crosseyed gunfight in the center of the road and then the train tracks are blown up (pretend of course, we just set off a mortar), make the train stop and then the good guys on the train with the sheriffs and a prisoner in handcuffs are made to get off, make them release the bad guy that stole Zoey (the miniature)and tried to barbeque her (ha ha), take the strongbox off the train, then there is a shoot out between the bad guys and the good guys. Guess who wins of course. Then we give a talk on gun safety to the kids and all the dead guys amazingly get back up and get on the train and the train takes off again. We also do Greensfork, Indiana Johnny Ringo - Cowboy Days. Johnny Ringo was born in GreensFork the town name was changed from Washington.
It is a lot of fun. We usually have between 20 to 25 cowboys, cowgirls, tainted women, children. We all volunteer to do this. Our club is paid a minimal fee which only ends up covering our insurance costs. We are designated a living history museum in Indiana.
It is fun still playing cowboys as adults, still kids at heart I guess. Love those old cowboy movies and even the new ones, Open Range, Broken Trail, Quigley, Tombstone, etc. We not only do reenactments we hold a shooting competion every month also and sit around a campfire. We try to stay to original as possible but not like the movies our club wants everything right from the time period. We even try to only have tin cups and plates to drink or eat from. Don't allow gun carts unless of course it would be something like a goat wagon. There are a few that even belong to the mounted gun shooting club in our club.
Come join in the fun if you can sometime. We have been doing this for 9 years now. Takes place normally the third Sunday of every month from May to September.
