Talk:Frank Eaton
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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Pete pc color.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sources cited
- I've decided to cross-post this to the Talk:Pistol Pete (mascot) page. Cowboyorange (talk) 14:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
I suppose it goes without saying that everything in this article taken from Eaton or using his writings as a source should be prefaced with "Eaton claimed", "Eaton said", "Eaton alleged", etc. Eaton was known as an incorrigible yarner and almost nothing he claimed about his life outside of Perkins can be substantiated by official sources or anyone else’s firsthand accounts.
As for his claim to be the model for OSU’s “Pistol Pete”, most informed scholars believe that the real model for the character was Payne County resident William “Billy” McGinty, a very famous cowboy of the time. McGinty was a well-publicized Oklahoma pioneer cowboy, Rough Rider hero, and Wild West show rider, whose accounts appeared in various news papers and books. A famous picture of him riding a bronco for the Rough Riders, for instance, appears in a New York Time article about the Rough Riders, June 11, 1899. And it’s too much of a coincidence that in the 1920s he had a widely known cowboy band named for him (McGinty’s Oklahoma Cowboy Band) which featured a popular lead singer going by the name “Pistol Pete.” This at a time when Eaton was unknown in Oklahoma outside of his friends and neighbors in Perkins. Cowboyorange (talk) 14:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
