Thunder and Buttons

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Here are some pictures I received in an e-mail I thought I'd share. Apparently, an eccentric gold miner named Prairie Dog O'Byrne lived around Cripple Creek, and he would hitch his team of bull elk named Thunder and Buttons and ride into town (the pictures might be from Cripple Creek or Colorado City (Colorado Springs)at the turn of the century.
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Can you imagine PETAs reaction today?

Those are some COOL pics. I have some (somewhere) of a guy that used a big bull moose to plow fields and pull the wagon. The thing turned on him one day and broke his back.
 
I'd try the wagon drawn by the elk, but forget the saddled elk!!! Looks like a man looking to get gord!!!
 
Nice Pictures, In the rut I bet he had fun going anywhere.

"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".
 
The bulls in the first pic dont look real healthy, Very cool pics though. Rare


I'll tell you who it was . . . it was that D@MN Sasquatch!
 
Thats hilarious, but no thank you, I want to keep my eyes! +1 he better watch out when the rut rolls around! Awesome pics though, ive never seen these.
 
A joke I heard comes to mind. OK OK lady its your elk just let me get my saddle off!
 
There's really nothing about these photos that even remotely makes me think they're real... Considering how long it took to tak e a picture back then- How did they get the animals to sit still for that long, posing for the picture...??? Don't believe it.
The first one almost looks plausible, but the second one really discredits them both- no way you could ride a bull elk, horns intact, down a street like that... Plus there's too much photohop-lookin-stuff goin on around the saddle and sihouette of the second pic's bull...

Pretty cool, but I don't believe them for a sec.. Or wait... Okay, not for 3 seconds...


"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24
 
Where is the Elk's right front in the second pic? -- "Elk don't know how many legs a horse has pilgrim!"
 

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