I particularly like the photo of the five men riding shotgun on a stage coach hauling $250k worth of gold. Those dudes look pretty tough, but in those days, with your back against the wall, I could easily see why some unscrupulous sorts might be tempted to take them on and knock off the stage coach. Put a guy with a rifle up on the hill on each side of the road, have two other boys with pistols meeting them on horseback. The guys in the hills snipe out two of the guards, the guys on horseback take out the other three, the two in the hills come down and hop on the stage and they giddy-up away. Split four ways that's over $62 grand apiece. Not that I would have done something like that .. I'm just saying.
This link was sent to me by a U.S. Forest Service friend, which reminded me of a story another USFS friend recently told to me. In the central Hills is a town aptly named Hill City. Their high school nickname is the Hill City Rangers, and their logo is Smokey the Bear. Apparently, they are the only school in the nation officially licensed by the USFS to use the Smokey the Bear mascot/logo thingy.
That approval stems from a forest fire raging decades ago and threatening the town. As the fire neared, the football team stopped practice and joined the foresters in digging fire lines and putting out the fire. The USFS was grateful and said, "Thanks. You saved our city. We'd love to pay you, but ... hey, you can have Smokey the Bear!"
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