_Since last edition, we first went to "Smokin' Guns at Rabbit Ridge" at Byhalia, Mississippi.
Winner of the SASS Duster Drawing at Rabbit Ridge was----
Congratulations!!!
_From there we went to the Mid-West Regional Gunfight & Living History Competitions for the American Frontier Re-enactment Guild at the Dalton Days Wild West Fest in Meade, Kansas.
_Folks, it's a long way from Mississippi to western Kansas!!!!
_We had a great time as always, but I got to tell ya, this ol' man's back on his ache & pain pills!
Happy Trails,
Scyene???
As stated on our homepage...
_Ignored by Hollywood and our educational system, Scyene (Sigh - as in Ho-Hum, een - as in seen) has been lost in the American consciousness of the Old West. A very important Texas town in it's day, Scyene was the Rootin'-Tootin', Wild and Wooly Texas home of such notorious characters as Belle Star, the Younger Brothers, and the James Boys, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other Ex-Confederate Guerillas.
_But now, let's look a little deeper...
_Where in the world does a name as remote, as strange, as unexpected as Scyene come from?
_Originally, but for a very short time, the Post Office was known as Prairie Creek, named for the nearby stream, but on June 1, 1854 the name of the Post Office was permanently changed to "Scyene."
Drawn in 1924 by Graphic Artist Fred Kamacker.
_Scyene was "Named for the Egyptian town dated 250-150 B.C., meaning 'key' or 'opening,' it befitted it's name in the lusty pioneer Dallas County days as it connected the east to the west through Dallas, and was a popular overnight stopping place for the long freight trains drawn by six or eight oxen bringing in their heavy loads from Marshal and Shreveport and returning with Dallas native products."
_The Biblical reference to that village of the distant past was that of Syene (misspelled in the Texas version with the addition of the silent "c"), situated at the site of present day Aswan, and in Biblical times one of the places of refuge for Israelites who fled to Egypt to avoid the Babylonian captivity following the storming of Jerusalem by
_A French and British revival of interest in ancient Egypt, which occurred early in the 19th Century and lasted for more than 50 years, was transferred to the United States, where many American towns were given the names of early Egyptian cities, such as Cairo, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee, and Alexandria, Louisiana, etc.
_Had the above named cities not survived to the present, they themselves might seem as obscure, and as difficult to pronounce for many, as Scyene is today.
_There is an opposing legend on the origin of Scyene's name that continues to surface occasionally. It is simply the theory that it is a misspelling and mispronunciation of the Seine River in France.
_After years of study, I don't believe this theory at all.
What's a Scyene???
continues...
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