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"Til Taylor"
Charity Poker Run 

Poker Run Rules:

Follow the map and visit all 5 stops and collect your stamp. Best Poker hand Wins!

     *This run is available both Friday & Saturday - 10 am start time suggested.

     *Start from where you like & Turn In is at the Let Er Buck Room by 4 pm each day.

     *$20 Entry Fee per rider and poker run sheet handed out at registration.

     *Collect Stamp at each location and do live draw at turn in.

        ( Purchase of Pendleton Run Pass - this ride included)

100% of the entry fees will be donated this year to help .........

Winning Hand Receives a Smith & Wesson 11810 M&P 9 Shield M2.0 Semi-Auto 9mm

***Winner is subject to all applicable background checks, federal & state laws. 

Poker Stops

Helix Pub & Market

206 Concord St, Helix, OR 97835

Alpine Outpost & Market

62393 OR-204, Weston, OR 97886

 

Summerville Store & Tavern

301 Main St, Summerville, OR 97876

Oregon Trail Store & Deli

64364 Old Hwy 30, Meacham, OR 97859

Prodigal Son

230 SE Court Ave, Pendleton, OR 97801

Turn In Hands @

Pendleton Run Ride-Race-Rally

Let Er Buck Room

1205 SW Court Ave,

Pendleton, OR 97801

About Til Taylor

Sheriff Til Taylor was born in 1866, murdered in 1920 during a jail break. He was appointed Sheriff Deputy of Umatilla County in 1898 at the age of 32. Four years later he was elected to the post of Sheriff after the previous Sheriff, William Blakeley, retired.

He was a Democrat in a land of Republicans and was so popular that he would continually run unopposed for the post of Sheriff. Sheriff Taylor saw the end of the Wild West and highwaymen, and saw the start of Bank Robbers and Safe Crackers. It’s said that he had a memory for faces and would study pictures on wanted posters for hours on end, he frequently found men who had drastically changed from pictures twenty years old.

Once in custody he could get a confession from a criminal more often then any other Law Man around. His success rate, and general good nature, was such that he was envied by most other Police, and admired by crooks. Thieves wouldn’t even think of robbing anything in his territory.

Here is the part that puts Sheriff Taylor on this list. He personally arrested 2,645 men in 18 years as Sheriff. AND, he never killed anyone at all. He wounded several, but either relied on getting the drop on crooks, mentally staring them down, or simply wrestling them to the ground.

The murder of Sheriff Til Taylor set off one of the largest man hunts to that day. Over 1000 citizens spent a week tracking down the murderer and the five others who escaped at the same time in the Umatilla Mountains. When caught, a lynching of the six men was narrowly avoided when the Sheriff’s brother (who had been elected to fill Til’s vacant position the day after the murder,) spoke to the crowd and invoked the Sheriff’s memory to disperse the crowd and kept the prisoners from being lynched.

Despite Til Taylor’s important work as a Sheriff, his biggest contribution and what he is most remembered for, is as the repeated President of the Pendleton Round-Up and the work he put into making the event what it is today.                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                     Author: Rick

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