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Q. What is Western Arts?
A It includes: Fancy rope work (American and charo), gun handling,
juggling, shooting, whip-cracking, whip targeting, knife and
hatchet throwing, horse tricks, and riding.
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Q. What is Cowboy
Ron's specialty?
A. Cowboy Ron's specialty is doing tricks and fancy rope spinning.
Children and adults love to have Ron spin his "Majesty Rope"
around them. Cowboy Ron can spin the rope around as many as
three hundred children at a show!
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Q. Does Cowboy
Ron do stage appearances?
A. Yes! Cowboy Ron is comfortable on stage whether pre-arranged
or at a moment's notice.
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Q. What
type of costumes does cowboy Ron wear?
A. Cowboy Ron takes great care in selecting western apparel
that the public wants to see. From fringed shirts and bib shirts
(like John Wayne wore), to smiley shirts, large batwing chaps,
and gun belts, Ron's costumes are sure to bring a bit of the
west to your event!
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Q. How long does
Cowboy Ron work?
A. From five to six hours (depending on the weather and heat).
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Q. Does Cowboy Ron have a horse? Does the horse do tricks?
A. Cowboy Ron is an animal lover. He and his wife have horses
and two wonderful dogs.
Dogs: Max was adopted from Primm, Nevada. Toffee is nineteen
years old.
Horses: Cheyenne is not available for individual shows, but
is part of Ron's act. Cheyenne comes on a whistle, bows, counts,
picks up objects off the ground, and takes a handkerchief from
Ron pockets! She is all horse with just the right amount of
ham in her!
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Q. Cowboy Ron seems familiar, have I seem him on TV or in newspapers?
A. That a good possibility. Fox TV did a three-minute special
on him at The Baltimore. Ron appeared three times with Fox:
in New York, Wild West City, and Netcong city. Ron has also
been interviewed many times on the Barry Lee program in Winchester,
Virginia and on the Marshall Andy program in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Q. How much experience does he have in front of the public?
A. Ron has performed exclusively with whip ropes and guns for
over a decade. Ron has also been a Washington D.C. tour bus
driver since 1968. Since taking up the western arts, Ron keeps
his ropes on the bus and while waiting for his passengers to
return to the bus he performs at the national mall or landmarks.
Visitors are amazed by Cowboy Ron's talent, evidenced by many
pictures and autographs each day. Ron has been featured in many
newspaper articles, including an Associated Press piece that
appeared in the Washington Times and Frederick's News Post.
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Q. Is Cowboy
Ron an expert on the west?
A. Ron would be embarrassed if someone called him an expert.
I once heard him tell member of an audience. "I am not an expert
or authority of the west, but I am knowledgeable and an enthusiast
of the west.
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Q. Where does Cowboy Ron get his information from?
A. Ron travels six weeks to four months at a time and recently
bought a piece of property in Snowflake, Arizona. He has been
to more than 150 major western landmarks in America. Including
Tombstone, Arizona, Boot Hill, Little Big Horn, The Alamo, the
Badlands of both North and South Dakota, Judge Ispar Parker
Court House, and Mount Rushmore.
Much of Ron's information also comes from the books he reads:
The Oxford History of the West, The Alamo, I Lost Myself at
Wounded Knee, as well as the biographies of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo
Bill, Kit Carson, Teddy Roosevelt, Geronimo, and Sitting Bull.
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Q. Does Ron take targets out of peoples hands with his whip?
A. No. Ron is not comfortable in taking the chance of hurting
someone. But, he can take targets out of his own hands and off
his head. This way I don't
have to worry about suing myself, also though I am sure I can
find a lawyer to show me how it could be done.
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Q. Does
Cowboy Ron write books or magazines?
A Yes, he published a magazine called Rest of the West
and wrote one book titled, "From Now". Both sold out.
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Q. Does Ron use real guns?
A. Ron Mosley uses blank-firing replicas or non-firing weapons.
But does have real weapons that will be used to burst balloons.
Q. Cowboy Ron how do I learn about
the west?
A.
That's a common question, I've asked myself many
times as a young man. To understand the west, one needs to section
the learning experience in to many departments.
(1) On hand experience.
(2) its climate (3) its history, from start to the present,
the facts, mythology and legends. You can learn a great deal
from the history channel. Great books or books on cd can be
purchased at museums, National Landmarks, and locations such
as Tombstone,( AZ.), The Alamo, (San Antonia, Tex.)
Alamo, Texas
, the White Sands National Park,( N.M.),
FT Davis, (TX), Isaac Parkers Court House, (FT. Smith,
Ark). Books and
videos can also be bought at Western Stage Props. (www.WesternStageProps.com).
Books that I have enjoyed: The
Oxford
History of the West The Old West Quiz & Fact book by Rod
Gregg. I strongly
believe nothing beats on hand experience. By on hand experience
I mean visiting the western states: driving, walking, biking,
horse back riding, camping and visiting hundreds of museums
and landmarks.
Notice the
difference in climate. Many
mornings I would have to break the ice in water buckets so our
horses could drink, by
noon;
it warmed up enough that I would have to roll up my sleeves.
The west is a great place for people with arthritis.
Once, in
Las Vegas
at the Jokers Wild Casino, I met a lady on permanent disability
because of a degenerating disk. She told me, Since I have moved
to
Nevada
I have only taken three pain pills in three years.
In
New Mexico,
on I-40, I have seen the wind push sage brush across the highway
at 45 to 50 miles an hour.
Remember as the west develops, one generation of the
west becomes the next generation of the mid-west, for example:
Andy Jackson was
the first western elected president of the U.S.
In learning the west, think of
it in different stages: the frontier stage, the fur frontier,
the cattle frontier, land frontier, mineral frontier and the
timber frontier.
Many people dont realize that at one time American did
not have horses, cattle or buffalo. We evolved over thousands
of years. Horris Greeley once said, “Go west young man.
Q. Do they still have Wild West
shows?
A. Yes I am proud to say the west
is alive and well. Go to web:
Www.buffalobill.com/ or
www.WWAC.com)
Q. Was the
Buffalo
Bill Wild West show the first in
America?
A. No, but it is the best
known. The history of wild west shows goes back hundreds of
years. It got started
by an artist who painted many Native American scenes.
He would go east and show two hundred paintings at a
time. He started taking Indians with him. Other wild west shows
were: Miller Brothers Wild West Show, Pawnee Bills Wild West
Show. Books on
these subjects can be purchase from the Wild West Arts Club.
www.WWAC.com
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