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○ week-long carnival featured Western film ○ flagging. And the Elks were tiring of the
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Quejo, continued from page 1.
stars, beauty queens, rodeo events and all ○ jokes: “Quejo? He’s the liveliest mem-
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so why not just bring him to our visitor ○ ○ kinds of carny attractions. Civic organi- ○ ○ ber of them Elks.” So Quejo retired from
center? ○ ○ zations were urged to set up exhibits that ○ ○ public life and was put under privatew
The Los Angeles Times thought the ○ ○ would attract national attention, and the ○ guardianship. In 1975, with live Indians
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roundelay hilarious enough to run a three ○ Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ○ getting madder and madder over mistreat-
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part series on the brouhaha. But money ○ responded with a winner—Quejo. ○ ment of their ancestors, the guardian do-
cooled the ardor for Quejo’s bones. ○ ○ Police Chief Waite bailed Quejo out ○ nated the cadaver to a museum, which
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Kenyon demanded a $3,000 dead-or- ○ ○ and donated the remains to the Elks. The ○ regarded it as a hot potato, and gladly lis-
alive reward offered 20 years before. ○ members constructed a replica of Quejo’s ○ ○ tened to a proposition from former Clark
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Law enforcement officials said that by ○ cave, spread out the relics and once again ○ ○ County district attorney Roland Wiley.
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1940 Quejo was “too dead” to pay off ○ the renegade proved a smash. For the next ○ ○ Wiley proposed to bury Quejo on his
the bounty . . . . Besides, they pointed ○ ○ quarter century, Quejo sat in a glass tomb ○ Hidden Hill ranch near Cathedral Can-
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out, Kenyon had already received $10 for ○ ○ year-round at Cashman Field, exchang- ○ yon in the Pahrump Valley. The museum
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ferrying Waite across the Colorado to the ○ ing blank stares with countless fans. ○ agreed and on Nov. 6, 1975, some 90
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cave. ○ Not that Quejo’s odyssey ended. ○ years after his birth, Quejo bedded down
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But the kicker came from the funeral ○ Thieves smashed his glass resting place ○ for the last time. Wiley, newsmen and
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home’s demand for payment of Quejo’s ○ ○ in 1956 and made off with the skeleton. ○ some old posse members were the only
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casket and storage. The entities that had ○ ○ Once again Quejo was the object of a ○ mourners. A history writer says, “Frank
once clamored for Quejo lost interest and ○ ○ manhunt. But again the posse failed. The ○ ○ Waite was on hand for the burial,
stiffed Parks with bill and bones. For ○ thieves demanded and got ransom money ○ ○ relieved, he told a newsman, that his
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three years the meter ran on Quejo, and ○ paid by James Cashman, Sr., and Quejo ○ ○ old adversary had been properly
only Helldorado saved him from eternal again joined the Elks. ○ ○ and respectfully laid away.”
limbo in the Parks’ refrigerator. But times were changing. Indian ○ Odd, because by 1975, Waite had
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Helldorado was the extraordinarily activists were voicing anger over the des- ○ been long since dead.
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successful promotion of Las Vegas in its ecration of their ancestors. Besides, ○
Wild West stage of development. The interest in Helldorado and Quejo was

Quiz Women In Westerns

By Chuck Kleber

The cowboy doesn’t always end up kissing the horse, pardner. Most Westerns have had a beautiful
actress in a leading role (some could shoot and ride with the best). Try to link the following:

(1) Bob Hope starred in two “Paleface” films and sang “Buttons and
Bows,” but most eyes were on this lady
(A) Jennifer Jones
(2) She played Calamity Jane and her real last name was von Kappelhoff
(B) Jayne Mansfield
(3) This famous screen cowgirl had a horse named “Buttermilk”
(C) Claire Trevor
(4) In the epic Western film, “Dances With Wolves,” Kevin Costner
(D) Mary Steenburgen
falls for this Lakota Sioux maiden (a white girl adopted into the tribe)
(E) Marlene Dietrich
(5) This honky-tonk girl was a passenger in the classic Western, “Stage
coach” (F) Jane Russell
(6) She ran the “Rancho Notorious” (G) Mary McDonnell
(7) After they shot each other in “Duel of the Sun,” she crawled into the (H) Dale Evans
arms of her lover (Gregory Peck) (I) Doris Day
(8) This child star “grew up” as a young woman in “Fort Apache” (J) Shirley Temple
(9) She displayed a flair for comedy in “The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw”
(10) They’re about to hand Jack Nicholson in “Goin’ South,” but she
saves the no-good by agreeing to marry him.

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