First Annual Preservation Society Fandango Raises $10,000
Preserve America’s historic West: first project, Mattie Earp’s Cemetery?
In hopes of preserving the stories and material reminders that make America’s Old West heritage so revered around the world, the True West Preservation Society raised more than $10,000 at its first annual Fandango concert and silent auction on March 7 in Cave Creek, Arizona. Folks who pledged donations for a cause they actively support in their everyday lives included single action shooting enthusiasts from Winter Range and Arizona locals. Balladeer Don Edwards crooned cowboy favorites and songs from his Grammy-nominated High Lonesome Cowboy to a crowd of more than 250 that gathered at the Buffalo Chip’s Wagon Camp. Before Edwards’ concert, world champion gunslinger Joey Dillon twirled his six shooters, and True West’s answer man and Arizona State’s Official Historian Marshall Trimble shared humorous Old West anecdotes. Nearly 50 years ago, two so-called “armchair historians” rambled around Arizona to see what mysteries of the Old West they could dig up. What they found may end up being the first project restored by the True West Preservation Society.
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