30th Annual Fur Trade Days

Fur Trade Days

39th Annual

Chadron, Nebraska July 9-12, 2015

Inside: Chadron History .......2 Welcome! ..................3 Tradin’ Fur? ...............5 City Map ..................12 Events Schedule.....13 Treasure Hunt.........22

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WELCOME TO FUR TRADE DAYS! Chadron was named after fur

trader Louis B. Chartran

The life of the fur trapper was often lonely, usually dangerous, and always hard.

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Chadron is named for Louis B. Chartran, manager of a fur trading post built in 1841 near what is now the city reservoirs south of town.

The creek that runs nearby is named on early maps as Chartran’s Creek. The name was pronounced by French settlers as “shattron,” which would evolve into Chadron. The town’s roots began at a site northwest of its present location.

Homesteader Fannie O’Linn recognized the needs of rural folks who were establishing farms in the area during the 1870s, and encouraged early businessmen to set up their shops on a portion of her claim near the confluence of the White River and Chadron Creek. The would-be town of “O’Linn” grew to 500 people by 1884.

O’Linn also negotiated with officials of the Elkhorn, Fremont and Missouri Valley Railroads to set up a rail terminal and roundhouse in the new town.

But, finding O’Linn’s asking price a bit high, officials secretly established their own township about six miles to the southeast and named it Bordeaux, in honor of an other early area fur trader.

The railroad reached Bordeaux in July 1885.

The people of O’Linn, realizing that the close proximity to the railroad was essential to their well being and prosperity, packed up their belongings - even to the extent of putting entire buildings on skids - and moved lock, stock and barrel to Bordeaux.

Over the objections of railroad officials, townspeople rechristened the new community Chadron, and the speed at which the people in O’Linn vanished and reappeared in the new town prompted some people to refer to Chadron as The Magic City.

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Welcome from the Mayor:

n behalf of the City of Chadron, we invite you to join us in experiencing the many amenities of our great city, one of which is the annual Fur Trade Days celebration.

This is the 39th year for this event, which was recognized by the Nebraska Department of Tourism as 2014 Nebraska Outstanding Event for communities with spopulations less than 10,000. We are very proud of that honor!

In addition, Fur Trade Days was also selected as Northern Panhandle’s Best Community Festival two years in a row 2014 and 2015.

While you are Paris Fisher here, please take time to check out our restaurants, shops and stores, as well as the City parks, Municipal Pool and great sports facilities. Not only does Chadron have a lot to offer, but the entire northwest Nebraska Panhandle abounds in all types of interesting, educational and recreational opportunities. To name a few: Museum of the Fur Trade, Chadron State Park, Fort Robinson State Park, Carhenge of Alliance, Dawes County Historical Museum, Mari Sandoz Center and many, many more! We hope that your visit is memorable, and that you and your family will return.

Paris Fisher, Chadron Mayor

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FUR TRADE DAYS 2015 is being brought to you through the financial and in-kind support of the following individuals, businesses and organizations: Arrow Building Center Kerry & Crystal Bailey John Barnum Bauerkemper’s Beta Sigma Phi Big Bat’s Conoco Big Dog Mower Racing Bordeaux Creek Fur Trade & Muzzleloaders Garry & Marcella Callahan Carhenge of Alliance Carnahan Financial Services Chadron Chamber of Commerce Chadron Chiropractic Clinic Chadron Arts Center Chadron Kiwanis Club Chadron Lions Club Chadron Public Library & Foundation Chadron Record Chadron Rotary Club Chadron Softball Association Chadron State College Chadron State Park Chadron York Rite Masonic Lodge Downtown Chadron Historic District Walking Tour Committee Dr. Timothy Chancellor Dean Carpenter City of Chadron Dawes County Abstract Dawes County Commissioners Dawes County Fair Board Dawes County Historical Society Dawes County Travel Board Monte Deckerd Jane Druecker Phyllis & Dale Eitemiller Favorite Bar First Congregational Church First National Bank Chadron First National Bank North Platte Fred A. Lockwood & Co. P.C. Fuller Construction Mark & Shelly Graves Greenwood Cemetery Kiosk Committee Doris Harrington Dr. Dan Johnson, DDS

Kevin Jones Marla Jones Linda Kallhhoff Keep Chadron Beautiful George & Emily Klein Glen & Vicki Kotschwar Landreth Plumbing Henry & Doralie Lawson George & Elizabeth Ledbetter Main Street Dental Mar-Bow Music & Archery Lynn & Randy Mathis Barb McDaniel Brady McDaniel McLain Medical Services Metal Products Merle Morford Museum of the Fur Trade Nebraska Life Magazine Northwest Eye Center Outlaw Printers Paris Fisher Auto Sales Connie & Al Rasmussen Robert & Jo Rasmussen RSVP/SVS Rural Electric Nebraskan Walt & Dru Scholl Security First Bank Service (Really) Matters Allen Shepherd Southern Light Photography/Cliff Moore Keith Spencer State Farm Ins. – Bob Alcorn State Farm Ins. – Randy Bauer Taco John’s of Chadron The Refuge by C3 Tommy’s Car Lot Trunk Butte Christian School Ted & Susan Vastine Jane & Rob Wahlstrom Wahlstrom Ford Catherine Welsh Westerner Inns Western Neb. Horseshoe Pitchers.

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White River Feeds Charlie and Peggy Wood Josef Zeman

If anyone was omitted, it was not intentional.

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The Omaha Bee reported in December, 1885 that Chadron, which had been founded just five months earlier, had over 600 buildings “that are the pride of he people who occupy them,” including a bank, hardware store, grocery, drug store, “first class hotel” and “a fine church edifice built at a cost of nearly $2,000.” This photo, provided to The Chadron Record by G.C. Ward of Martin, is identified at the bottom as showing the community in 1887.

Follow the tracks...

of fur traders through history EXPLORE THE LIFE AND TIMES of the traders and trappers who helped to open a continent, and the Indians with whom they traded.

The Museum of the Fur Trade brings the story of the first business in North America to life in the world’s finest exhibit of it’s kind.

Open daily May 1-Oct 31 • 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

By appointment during winter season Admission $5 for adults

www.furtrade.org museum@furtrade.org 308-432-3843 3 miles east of chadron on US Highway 20

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Photo courtesy of Barb McDaniel

Fur Trade Days is only a month away. Scott Schremmer and Andy Gooder of the Chadron Parks Department recently put up a new banner which announces the event. It is located at the west entrance to town. This year’s dates are July 9-12.

Just what are these Fur Trade Days?

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hadron’s annual Fur Trade Days celebration is many things: a community festival, steeped in history and tradition; a time to rendezvous and reunite with family and friends—or even make some new ones; and a whole lot of fun! Fur Trade Days is an excuse to get a little rowdy. But hopefully not too rowdy.

Fur Trade Days has got food, music, vendors, and activities. Sights to see, and

things to do.

The main locale is the courthouse green at Fourth and Main Streets. There you’ll find information, vendors, booths, and events in abundance. But that’s not all!

(For a full schedule of events see Page 13.)

Take in the parade Saturday morning, fling a buffalo chip or two in the afternoon, visit the rustic bucksinner’s camp, or take in a film at the Trading Stories Festival each evening at the library.

In addition to the buffalo

compost games, there’s a softball tourney, horseshoes, a ranch rodeo, walking historical tours, and a celebration of war heros at the cemetery.

There’s even a treasure hunt, sponsored by The Chadron Record (see Page 22). Solve the clues first to win $100 chamber bucks.

Or you could head up north on Main Street to the ranch rodeo sunday night.

It’s always a crowd pleaser.

Fur Trade Days has a little something for everyone.

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39th Annual Fur Trade Days Parade The parade starts at 10 a.m. Saturday on Main Street, from 10th to First streets

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t’s a mile long and fun every bit of the way.

Featuring appearances by costumed members of the Fur Trade Days Buckskinners’ camp, the parade also has marching bands, beauty queens, horse drawn wagons and riders on horseback, racing lawn mowers, floats from local businesses and organizations, National Guard soldiers, firemen, former residents home for class reunions, and lots more.

The parade route runs north along Main Street from 10th to First. The registration table will be located at the city pool on 10th Street and participants should check in by 9 a.m.

Parade spectators are advised to pick out a good seat early in the morning.

Bringing sunscreen, sun glasses, a hat, a comfortable chair or blanket and something cool to drink might be a good idea too. The parade is spon-

This troupe of dancers provides a little pre-parade entertainment as viewers stake out their seats.

sored by the Chadron Lions Club.

Immediately following the parade, don’t forget the Chadron Chamber of Commerce buffalo burger barbecue. Grab a burger with all the fixin’s and chips or buffalo hot dogs are also available.

While enjoying the food, entertainment on the court-

house lawn includes music by the Bald Mountain Rounders, a bluegrass band with a strong local following, Their appearance is sponsored each year by the Chadron Public Library Foundation.

For a sweet treat to follow the meal, just take a few steps across the street to the First Congregational Church, where

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Saturday's parade features racing lawn mowers, floats from local organizations, National Guard soldiers, firefighters, and more class reunion members.

church members sponsor the annual Ice Cream Social, complete with homemade ice cream, toppings and desserts.

Also following the parade and barbecue lunch is the World Championship Buffalo Chip Throw, sponsored by the Chadron Rotary Club.

For events all over town, check out the full schedule on Page 13.

Record photos by Kevin Oleksy

Visitors from the primitive rendezvous and bucksinner’s camp always walk in the parade. Their muzzleloading demonstrations are always a big hit!

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Buckskinners recreate the fur trade era

An authentic look into the Fur Trade era and a chance to watch shooting sports activities can be found just a few miles east of Chadron during the Fur Trade Days celebration.

Those who experience the Buckskinners Camp this July 10-13 will take a step back in time to the era of the Mountain Men. The authentic Rendezvous is sponsored by the Bordeaux Creek Fur Trade and Muzzleloading Association.

Located 3 1/2 miles east of Chadron on Highway 20 and 8 miles south on Bordeaux Road, the camp is set up on Stanley Stumf’s ranch. The camp area has fresh water, shade and great scenery.

“Our appeal is our site” said Norm Martin, the Rendezvous coordinator. The participants exchange goods, have fun and provide authentic entertainment for onlookers.

The rendezvous is very much like those of the fur trade era. Campers trade their handiwork and wares as the original rendezvous participants did.

People at the camp sell items that relate to the period, including guns, shooting

Record photo by Julie Pfister

Visitors are welcome at the camp anytime, but are encouraged to come Saturday afternoon. A free shuttle service at Third and Main streets will take visitors to and from the Buckskinners camp from 1- 5 p.m. Saturday.

supplies, clothing and cookware.

The rendezvous was important to the mountain men, Indians and fur companies in the 1800’s.

A site was chosen each year to host the rendezvous and traders came from far and wide to pick up supplies to necessary to survive.

The fur companies would exchange goods such as guns, powder, lead, traps, knives, axes or clothing for the furs of the mountainmen.

A bonus for the sightseer at the Buckskinners Camp is the traditional dress of the 1800’s that buckskinners wear during the rendezvous.

Special shooting events for Buckskinner participants include a variety of shooting matches with rifle, pistol, and trade guns, contests for youth and women, and a candlelight shoot. There is also competition in the skills of tomahawk and knife throwing, a cooking contest, and plenty of carousing afterwards.

Visitors are welcome at the camp anytime, but are encouraged to come Saturday afternoon. There is a free shuttle service at Third and Main streets to take visitors to and from the camp, 1- 5 p.m. Saturday.

For information call Norm Martin (308) 432-3474.

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Fur Trade Eats

Along with the Chadron Chamber of Commerce buffalo burger barbecue, and the First Congregational Church’s ice cream social just across Fourth Street, both of which immediately follow the parade Saturday morning, the Traders’ Market features a host of vendors and carts to grab a quick bite to eat.

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Film festival returns for a second year

The Trading Stories Film Festival, lauded as a success last year, returns for another run at this year’s Fur Trade Days celebration.

The festival highlights Native American voices and perspectives through independent and major films as well as discussions.

This year’s lineup includes two speakers as well as an array of interesting titles. For full times, see the full schedule on Page 13.

The speakers appearing Friday and Saturday, are:

Jerome Kills Small —an Oglala Lakota storyteller from Porcupine, S.D. on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Kills Small travels the country storytelling and teaching the Lakota language and culture. He is especially dedicated to the Lakota youth.

at Lower Brule Community College, and editor of the anthropological work of Ella Deloria, who recorded Sioux oral history and legends, and contributed to the study of their languages.

The films are showed Thursday-through Sunday afternoons, times are available on Page 13:

Joyzelle Gingway Godfrey —a speaker and presenter specializing in the historical “We are a Horse Nation,” culture of the Lakota and 2014 Dakota Sioux people. She —a documentary film was formerly an instructor exploring the story of why the in Lakota history and culture Lakota, Dakota and Nakota

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Nations of Native Americans are a “Sunka Wakan Oyate” (Horse Nation), demonstrating their philosophy and bringing together traditional and contemporary songs, stories, and teachings.

—Summary via IMDB.com

“Reel Injun,” 2009 —a 2009 documentary film that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film. Reel Injun is illustrated with excerpts from classic and contemporary portrayals of Native people in Hollywood movies and interviews with filmmakers, actors and film historians, while showcasing iconic locations in motion picture as well as American Indian history.

Fire Thunder, former Oglala Sioux Tribe president introduces a film Reel Injun explores many stereotypes about Cecilia at last year’s festival.

Natives in film, from the Noble savage to the Drunken Indian. It profiles such figures as reinvented himself as a Native American on Iron Eyes Cody, who as an Italian American screen.

—Summary via Wikipedia.org

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Fiddle Contests begin at 1 p.m.

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“Smoke Signals,” 1998 —based on the short story “this is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona,” by Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals is set on the Coeur D’Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer, Idaho.

Arnold (Gary Farmer) rescued Thomas (Evan Adams) from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold’s son Victor (Adam Beach) resents his father’s alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family. Uneasy rivals and friends, Thomas and Victor spend their days killing time on a Coeur d’Alene reservation in Idaho and arguing about their cultural identities. When Arnold dies, the duo set out on a cross-country journey to Phoenix to retrieve Arnold’s ashes.

—Summary via IMDB.com Please see Festival, Page 14

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Main St. north to: Shumway Fields, Horseshoe pits and the Dawes County Fairgrounds

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FUR TRADE DAYS 2015 Schedule of Events THURSDAY, JULY 9 All Day

Primitive Rendezvous Setup (3 miles east, 8 miles south on Bordeaux Road) All Day Monte Deckerd’s Historic Chuckwagon (Courthouse) Trading Stories Film Festival – (Library at 5th and Bordeaux streets) 5:30 p.m. – Reception 6 p.m. – Welcome and opening remarks 6:30 p.m. – Film “We are a Horse Nation”

7 p.m.

Walking Ghost Tour (Library)

FRIDAY, JULY 10 All Day

Primitive Rendezvous (3 miles east, 8 miles south on Bordeaux Road) All Day Softball Tournament (Shumway Fields) All Day Monte Deckerd’s Historic Chuckwagon (Courthouse) 8 a.m. to Noon Paintings by Allen Shepherd (CSC Memorial Hall) Noon – 7 p.m. Traders’ Market (Courthouse) Noon – 7 p.m. Black Hills Raptor Center (Courthouse) Noon Chadron Record TCR Treasure Hunt (Starts at 2nd & Morehead streets) 1 – 4p.m.

Paintings by Allen Shepherd (CSC Memorial Hall) Trading Stories Film Festival – (Library at 5th and Bordeaux streets) 3 p.m. – Jerome Kills Small: Harvesting Foods and Medicines in the Dakota Tradition 4 p.m. – Joyzelle Gingway Godfrey: Louis and Clark meet the Sioux 5 p.m. – Film “Reel Injun” 6:45 p.m. – Movie Discussion and Break 7 p.m. – Film “Smoke Signals”

5 – 7 p.m.

Bounce House (132 W 3rd St.)

6 p.m.

6 – 7 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

3 p.m. – Film “Our Spirits Don’t Speak English” 5 p.m. – Joyzelle Gingway Godfrey: Story Telling of the Dakota

Historic Flag Ceremony (Courthouse) Black Hills Raptor Center Presentation (Courthouse) Black Hills Blend Barbershop Quartet (Courthouse)

4 & 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 11 All Day

Primitive Rendezvous (3 miles east, 8 miles south on Bordeaux Road) All Day Softball Tournament (Shumway Fields) All Day Monte Deckerd’s Historic Chuckwagon (Courthouse) 7:30 a.m.

Rotary Colter Run (CSC Armstrong Gym) 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. Pancake Feed (Masonic Hall 4th & Main streets) 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Traders’ Market (Courthouse) 39th Annual Fur Trade Days Parade (Main Street between 1st and 10th streets) AFTER PARADE Buffalo BBQ (Courthouse) Bald Mountain Rounders (Courthouse) Ice Cream Social at the Congregational Church (4th & Chadron Ave.) 10 a.m.

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Bounce House (132 W 3rd St.) 11:30 a.m.

Dawes County Cruisers’ Poker Run, – 3 p.m. open to any vehicle / motorcycle (Sayalanes, 950 W 10th St.) Noon – 4 p.m. Paintings by Allen Shepherd (CSC Memorial Hall, 1000 Main St.) 1 p.m.

“Fur Trade Days Jamboree” hosted by Jerry Kennedy (Olde Main Street Inn, 115 Main St) 1 p.m.

Rotary Buffalo Chip Throw (Main Street by Courthouse) 1 – 5 p.m.

Native American Art Show (Art Center, 4th & King streets) 2 p.m.

Craig MacPhee, Bagpipes/historic presentation (Courthouse) 2 p.m.

Big Dog Mower Racing (Dawes County Fairgrounds) Trading Stories Film Festival – (special presentations at the Museum of the Fur Trade) 3 p.m. – Jerome Kills Small: Dances and Games of the Dakota” 4 p.m. – Film “Dreamkeeper” (At the Library at 5th and Bordeaux streets)

5 p.m.

6 p.m.

Historic Cemetery Tours (Greenwood Cemetery, West Highway 20, behind Walmart) Calcutta (Fairgrounds) Ranch Rodeo (Fairgrounds)

SUNDAY, JULY 12 All Day

Softball Tournament (Shumway Fields) 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. Pancake Feed (Masonic Hall, 4th & Main streets) 11:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Horseshoe Pitchers (Horseshoe Pits, N. Main Street) Noon – 3 p.m. Crooked Arrow Obstacle Course (Chadron State Park) 1 – 3 p.m.

Regatta: Canoe/Paddle Boat Races (Chadron State Park) 1:30 p.m.

Historic Downtown Walking Tour (Starts at Blaine Hotel, 2nd and Bordeaux streets) Trading Stories Film Festival – (Library at 5th and Bordeaux streets) 1 p.m. – “We are a Horse Nation” 2 p.m. – Movie Discussion and Break 2:15 p.m. – “Atanarjuat The Fast Runner” 7 p.m.

Ghost Tour of Historic Buildings (Start at Library)

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES The Museum of the Fur Trade open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day 3 miles west on Highway 20 - Adult Admission $5, Kids under 18 free.

Dawes County Historical Society Museum open 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Saturday and 1 - 5 p.m. Sunday.

3 miles south on Highway 385 - Free Admission For updated information during the event, check the information booth at the Traders’ Market, online at FurTradeDays.com or call the Chadron Chamber of Commerce at (308) 432 – 4401

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FESTIVAL

“Dreamkeeper,” 2004 Shown at the Museum of the Fur Trade, 4 p.m. Saturday.

The main plot of Dreamkeeper is the conflict between a Lakota elder and storyteller named Pete Chasing Horse (August Schellenberg) and his Lakota grandson, Shane Chasing Horse (Eddie Spears).

The plot unfolds as the pair travels from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to the fictitious All Nations powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a trip the grandson takes only under duress.

Along the way, the grandfather tells his grandson various Indian stories and legends to help him understand and choose the “good red road,” i.e. to embrace an Indian identity.

—Summary via Wikipedia.org

“Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School,” 2008 —a documentary film about the Native American boarding schools, which youths attended chiefly from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. It was filmed by the Rich Heape company and directed by Chip Richie.

Native American storyteller

from Page 11 Gayle Ross narrated the film.

Ross is a descendant of John Ross, chief of the Cherokee Nation in the Trail of Tears period.

The film deals with both the schools run by Christian missionaries and those run by the United States’ Bureau of Indian Affairs. It addresses the schools’ role of forcing cultural assimilation of the resident children into the ways of the majority culture of European Americans —Summary via Wikipedia.org “Powwow Highway,” 1989 For the Northern Cheyenne tribe of Lame Deer, Montana, the American Dream has taken a grim detour. Here, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez) is a committed activist battling a suspicious land-grab.

Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer) is a serene spiritual warrior guided by sacred visions.

But when Buddy’s estranged sister is framed and jailed in New Mexico, the two men take Philbert’s rust-wrecked ’64 Buick ‘war pony’ on a road trip that makes some very unexpected stops along the way. Jonathan Wacks directs and Graham Greene, Wes Studi , and Amanda Wyss star in this acclaimed

comedy/drama about Native Americans understanding the past, fighting for their future and discoveringr a few surprising truths alonga the POWWOW HIGHWAY. a —Summary viaR Amazon.comi

“ATANRJUAT The FastT Runner,” 2001 t —an epic film made byc and about the Inuit peoplesd of the Canadian arctic, tell-i ing a story of a crime that ruptures the trust within a closely knit group, and how justice is achieved and healing begins. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language.

Director Zacharias Kunuk and his writer, Paul Apak Angilin, collected oral versions of an Inuit legend from several elders, collated them into a story, submitted the story to the elders for suggestions and then filmed it as a collaborative expression.

—Summary via IMDB.com

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Team George in Colter Run for the Seventh Year

For the seventh year, “Team George” will race in honor of George Watson in the annual Colter Run during Fur Trade Days. Watson, a former CSC professor and one of the Colter Run organizers, died from pancreatic cancer in June 2010.

Team George runners contribute to The Team George Scholarship Fund, available to Chadron State College students. Members can participate in the Colter Run or donate directly to the scholarship fund without taking part in the race.

Donations can be mailed to: COLTER RUN P.O. Box 30 Chadron, NE 69337 803 East 3rd St., Chadron (308)432-8414 (888)432-8414

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36th annual Colter Run

Record photo by Kerri Rempp

Mick Downing and Veronica Parish, both of Chadron, dig for the finish line during the Colter Run’s 5k race last year.

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In 1811, mountain man John Colter ran 300 miles across the Nebraska Territory in 11 days to elude Blackfeet Indian pursuers.

Chadron’s Colter Run started as part of the 1980 Fur Trade Days celebration.

On Saturday, July 11, to commemorate Colter’s feats of bravery and endurance once more, the Rotary Club will sponsor the 36th annual Colter Run, featuring 5-kilometer and 10-kilometer races, and a 2-mile walk for fun.

Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. at Chadron State College Armstrong Gym, both races start at 7:30 a.m. On-day registration is $20.

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Hunting Chadron’s haunted locations

Laster year’s final Fur Trade Day, a band of 30 intrepid people gathered outside the Chadron Public Library to join local paranormal enthusiast Richard Dabney and hunt for ghosts.

Dabney led the group through some of the most haunted sites in Chadron in what could be described as a spook hunt for the 21st century.

Absent from his arsenal were the trappings of traditional paranormal detection—cameras, electromagnetic field meters, audio recorders, and other devices of yore. These were replaced by two flashlights and an Android tablet and running an app called Ghost Radar. Later several smartphones joined in with the app Ghost Hunter M2. p Ghost Hunter M2 is an iPhone app that costs r 99 cents. Ghost Radar, its Android competitor, is free. Both apps boast similar interfaces and purport to aid in discovering and interacting with ghosts.

GHM2 is a veritable digital Swiss army knife of ghost hunting tools. Its Apple Store entry lists, electronic voice phenomena instrument, sensor sweep, electromagnetic field instrument, audio detection, Fast Fourier Transform visualization, geoscope instrument, and a spatial displacement instrument as included features.

The list is impressive, but comes with a disclaimer that states, “As advanced as this toolkit is, it cannot prove, or disprove, the existence of paranormal entities (e.g. ghosts). This toolkit is provided for entertainment purposes only.”

This isn’t too surprising as any ghost hunt requires belief, or at least the suspension of disbelief, in ghosts. But using either of these apps requires some additional steps.

Each of the app’s features is described as using powerful proprietary algorithms to analyze

Record photo by Kevin Oleksy

Chadron’s Richard Dabney, ghost hunter extraordinare, leads a group at the Bean Broker Coffee House during last year’s hunt.

data collected by users’ phones.

The group headed north to give the Bean Broker Coffee House a try. As it passed The Eagle Theater, someone’s device said, “rain.”

That is to say, a synthesized voice read the word aloud as it was also displayed on screen.

The GHM2 describes its electronic voice phenomena instrument as “presenting words, in both audio (voice) and visual format, based on an advanced phonetic selection algorithm.” Supposedly our phones can pick up ghost sounds the ears of the living cannot detect.

About 45 minutes later, people started getting flash flood warnings on their phones.

Though no rain fell in Chadron that evening, it seemed like we might be on to something...

Ghost Hunt, 7 p.m. Sunday, July 12, starts at Chadron Public Library

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New sights at FTD: Black Hills Blend Quartet

The Black Hills Blend Quartet will be joining the Fur Trade Days festivities.

Part of the Shrine of Democracy Chorus based in Rapid City, the quartet performs traditional barbershop standbys as well as more modern songs.

Members are, Al Kelts - tenor - a retired child neurologist and sleep doctor. After a hiatus of “several” years, he started singing barbershop again about 9 years ago.

Pieter Wouden lead - the newest member of the quartet, He is retired from 23 years in the Air

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Force and has enjoyed playing music most of his life.

Pete Anderson - bass - Pete is the most experienced of all he members in the quartet. He has been in the Society for 39 years. He pays his bills as an insur-

Monte Deckerd, Chuckwagon cook

Deckerd of Golden, Colo. is an authentic chuckwagon cook who will demonstrate real cowboy cuisine for most of each day of this year’s Fur

ance salesman in Rapid CIty. Wayne Anderson baritone - Wayne is retired from 25 years in the Air Force and about 13 years with United Airlines as a pilot He sang in male and mixed choruses at Concordia Col-

Trade Days celebration.

Deckerd got in to chuckwagon cooking after attending a Western-themed festival more than a decade ago.

Since then, he has competed at numerous cook-offs in

lege, and claims to know almost all the Kingston Trio and Brothers Four songs from smaller groups in college.

Black Hills Blend will perform at 7 p.m., Friday, July 10, at the gazebo on the courthouse lawn.

New Mexico and Colorado, and done demonstrations all over.

Deckerd’s chuckwagon will be stationed at the courthouse beginning Thursday, July 9.

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Bagpiper, Craig MacPhee

The Scots were big players in the history of the Fur Trade, MacPhee will be at 2015 Fur Trade Days to share some of that history. Be sure to stop by and check out his performance!

2 p.m., Saturday, July 11, at the Courthouse lawn.

In this courtesy photo MacPhee pipes on the Island of Colonsay, in Scotland, which is where his clan (MacPhee) originated.

Colonsay is located on the west coast of Scotland, north of Islay and south of the Isle of Mull.

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Raptors descend on Chadron for FTD

No, we don’t mean Jurassic World is at the movie theaer!

Emissaries from the Black Hills Raptor Center are a new feature planned to return for this year’s Fur Trade Days.

The word “raptor” may send a chill down your spine and conjure images of the human-sized dinosaur predators from in Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” or the more recent “Jurassic World.”

But those “Velociraptors” are more Hollywood artifice than history. The true Velociraptors were smaller, feathered, and lived during the Cretaceous period—more closely resembling their modern day kin: birds-of-prey, who share the name “raptor.”

Modern raptors include eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, and kestrels. The ornithological definition for a “bird of prey” applies to those species

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down to the diminutive American kestrel, which weighs about 4 ounces (as much as a stick of butter).

A photo gallery of the Raptor Center’s birds is available online at blackhillsraptorcenter.org.

The center’s presentations allow attendants to safely interact with these beautiful birds up-close and personal.

An event in Rapid City, sponsored by the Journey Museum, drew about 100 people last year.

The raptors’ visit to Fur Trade Days is planned for Friday, July 10. Staff from the raptor center will host a meet and greet on Chadron’s courthouse lawn at Fourth and Main Streets from noon to 6 p.m. Then at 6:30 p.m., an educational presentation is planned at the courthouse gazebo.

Birds of the Raptor Center Ferruginous hawk (Phoenix) A prairie-dwelling, prairie dog hunter, the ferruginous

hawk is known to nest on the ground, where the raptor has to fend off larger animals from taking its meals or offspring.

At around 5 pounds, the red-brown colored shoulders, back, and legs of the bird are a prominent identifying feature.

Red-tailed hawk (Elise) Easily distinguished by its cinnamon-colored tail, the red-tailed hawk weighs about three pounds and has a football-shaped body.

With prey as large as rabbits, the raptor hunts in a “perch-and-pounce” manner when it’s not soaring high above open fields looking for prey.

Eastern screech-owl (Little Red Riding Hoot) A haunting trill in the night will indicate that an eastern screech-owl is nearby but actually seeing the pint-sized raptor in the nook of a tree will be the real test.

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American kestrel (Henrdix) Long, narrow, and shaped like a bullet, the American kestrel weighs about 4 ounces and is a known grasshopper killer.

The tiny raptor has greyblue wings and a reddish chest and back. The raptor can also be easily identified by the black splotch-like markings of its feathers.

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Cemetery tours remember Chadron heroes

By JUNICE DAGEN for The Record This year’s FTD celebration includes the Fourth Annual Cemetery Historical Tour.

This year the theme is “Heroes” and that fits nicely with the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. Deceased WWII veterans will be honored as their name is called and the bell from the USS Chadron will be rung. Every effort has been made to include all WWII veteran names and they will be read at the 4 and 7 p.m. tours. An invitation is extended to all veterans, but especially WWII veterans, to surround the bell during the reading. If any names have been overlooked attendees may request the name be added during the ringing ceremony.

Several early Chadron residents will be portrayed by local actors.

Bill Dowling and Harold Barr will be portrayed by Kevin Oleksy.

Gail Halvorsen will be portrayed by Michael Kruse.

Halvorsen is the only nonChadron resident but his WWII story is worth telling.

Robert Hood will be portrayed by Bill Huntington.

“Billy the Bear” Iaeger will be portrayed by John Axtell Alfred Bartlett will be portrayed by Miles Bannan Jennie Danley will be portrayed by Suze Jones and Janice German Sherri Blome and Tena Cook will read the veteran names and ring the bell in

their honor.

All of these characters (with the exception of Halvorsen) had a hand in making early Chadron a thriving and interesting town. Some stories will inspire you, while others may leave you with questions. You will leave with a sense that Chadron’s history is alive and well.

Tickets for the tours, planned for 4 and 7 p.m., Saturday, July 11, can be purchased at the Greenwood Cemetery Gate for $10.00.

One ticket will be good for both tours and those fifteen and under are free. Some chairs will be available but it is a good idea to bring one if possible. Transportation from the parking area to the tours will be provided for those who need it. The Highway 20 gate will be closed so please use the south gate.

The TCR Treasure Hunt Returns!

Want a chance at $100 Chamber Bucks? Got the skills to solve puzzles and the legs to walk or run through Chadron’s downtown? The hunt starts at the Chadron Record (248 West Second St.) at noon Friday, July 9.

Be there to unravel the story of Marley Dunkers, a local barber who was shot by one of his patrons on a hot July afternoon in 1914.

(P.S. no Twitter this year! Just your brains and a little legwork)

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