DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)



On This Day, July 21, 1873. Jesse James and his gang stage the first robbery of a moving train near Adair Iowa.
The gang had learned that a $75,000 shipment of gold was to be coming from the Cheyenne region. Frank James and Cole Younger went on to Omaha to learn when and returned with the information. Laying in wait, they had unfastened a rail and pulled it out as the train came around a curve. The locomotive was overturned, the engineer and fireman were killed, some passengers were injured. The gold shipment had been delayed and was not on the train. $2,000 was taken from the safe and another $1,000 from the passengers.
Not counting train robberies during the Civil War, this credit is in error because the first peacetime train robbery in the United States occurred on October 6, 1866, when the Reno gang robbed a train in Seymour, Indiana. They broke into one safe and tipped the other off the train before jumping off. Perhaps the operative words were "in the west".
Jesse James was not a folk hero but a cold blooded killer. Joining a gorilla group in 1864 at the age of 16, he participated in the massacre of 22 unarmed Union soldiers. Another 123 Union soldiers were killed in an ensuing battle. It became known as the Centralia Massacre. After the Civil War, beween 1866 and 1876, the James-Younger Gang reportedly robbed 12 banks, five trains, five stagecoaches and the gate cash box of the ticket booth at the Kansas City Exposition. They were believed to have killed between 12 and 17 people during that time.

Model 206 Windsor Steak knife set. First mention I see is in the '78 catalog for $100.
I emptied out the savings account, stuffed my pockets full of hundred dollar bills and went to a knife show in Washington Missouri Friday. There were quite a few Buck knives there, but the only thing that followed me home was this nice steak knife set. The Micarta color runs a bit towards the brownish. I'm getting old and cranky. It is annoying to me that more often than not the knifes are still in the sheaths and a lot of knives had no prices marked. I don't want to stand there opening sheaths or repetitvely asking "How much is this"?. Some display cases full of closed Buck sheaths, I didn't even bother to ask. One whole wall of tables was not even uncovered. Probably should have gone back the second day because surely I missed some good stuff. Oh, and I also picked up a 'pink' Mini Maglite for Penny.

1980 Catalog

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