Nat "Kiowa" Jones

[roughcreek]

This from magazine so quality of picture not so good.
Any relation to our Nate Kiowa Jones?

[kimwcook]

Well by golly we now know where that name came from. Or that's my SWAG.

[AJMD429]

I never knew he was so old he must be over 100 years old...!

No wonder he knows so much about leverguns.

[Nate Kiowa Jones]

Yep, that's where it came from.
Nat Kiowa Jones was an old Texas Ranger there at turn of the century. This was a time when the west was taming down and the rangers were having to be more formal as in wearing ties and white shirts and such. Doing much more paper work than before and he hated it. Story goes he was filling out the transfer papers, for the first time, for a prisoner that he had just delivered to the state prison in Huntsville and when he got to the question "Disposition of the inmate", Jones thought it meant what kinda attitude did the prisoner have and so he wrote, "He was ornery, and that’s why I shot him".
I said,” Sounds like my kinda guy.” when I had heard this story, but I finally got to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame in Waco and talked to the researcher there and she confirmed it. She found the paper work and made copies of it for me.
This has been my SASS alias since 1992.

[horsesoldier03]

Not sure who wrote the info under the pic. I am sure he is proud of that Ivory Handled Colt too, but it looks to me like he is showing off that 95 Winchester!

[roughcreek]

Not sure who wrote the info under the pic. I am sure he is proud of that Ivory Handled Colt too, but it looks to me like he is showing off that 95 Winchester!

Picture is from an article in a gun magazine on gun leather, so probably why the 95 not mentioned, altho he certainly appears to be showing off the 95.

[piller]

NKJ got his info from the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco. All levergunners should visit that museum. It is a great place.

[Rube Burrows]

Yep, that's where it came from.
Nat Kiowa Jones was an old Texas Ranger there at turn of the century. This was a time when the west was taming down and the rangers were having to be more formal as in wearing ties and white shirts and such. Doing much more paper work than before and he hated it. Story goes he was filling out the transfer papers, for the first time, for a prisoner that he had just delivered to the state prison in Huntsville and when he got to the question "Disposition of the inmate", Jones thought it meant what kinda attitude did the prisoner have and so he wrote, "He was ornery, and that’s why I shot him".
I said,” Sounds like my kinda guy.” when I had heard this story, but I finally got to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame in Waco and talked to the researcher there and she confirmed it. She found the paper work and made copies of it for me.
This has been my SASS alias since 1992.

Neat Story.