OT- Johnny Ringo's Lawyer's business card.

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:55 pm

W. K. Makemson and partners were big time criminal lawyers in Georgetown, Texas at the time Johnny Ringo was being brought to trial for his involvement in the Mason County "Hoo Doo War". The war was between the German settlers and the cattlemen in Mason County. This is in the hill country of Texas. The cattlemen believed the German settlers were stealing their cattle so the war was on. In 1876 Makemson, Posey, and Fisher were Ringo's lawyers. The card dates from around that time. He eventually went to jail in Travis County with Manny Clements, John Wesley Hardin and other gunmen of the era. Makemson was in the Texas 5th cavalry during part of the Civil War and in 1863-1865 was sheriff of Williamson County. Later he became a Texas District attorney and ran for Governor in the 1890s. Ringo left Texas after he got out and went to Tombstone and you know the rest of the story. This is a neat piece of Texas history that I pick up a few days ago.

Johnny Ringo

W.K. Makemson

Rube Burrows · Post by **Rube Burrows** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:04 pm

Interesting find. Do you actually have the card or is it just a picture?

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:04 pm

RR7, you come up with the neatest stuff.

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:07 pm

Sorry Rube, yes I got the card a few days ago. It is about 4 inches across.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:26 am

kimwcook wrote:RR7, you come up with the neatest stuff.

+ 1

Lawyer Daggit · Post by **Lawyer Daggit** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:03 am

Amazing it has survived. Is the practice still operating?.

I am sure the Texas Bar Assoc would love to get their hands on, and preserve and display that card.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:53 am

very cool story and card

Rube Burrows · Post by **Rube Burrows** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:10 am

rangerider7 wrote:Sorry Rube, yes I got the card a few days ago. It is about 4 inches across.

Very nice. Im sure you have quite the collection.

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:46 am

nice bit o' history. did you know the back story before you acquired the card?
i often wonder what "collectables" i have wandered past and ignored for my ignorance
of their importance.

antilley · Post by **antilley** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:37 pm

i love hearing your Texas history stuff......

I had no idea that went on in Mason County .... my assumption that is Mason/ LLano area? I would love to have some Coopers Ribs again soon

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:42 pm

Yes I did pokey but not all of it.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:43 pm

You know, in one of the recent Earp movies, Michael Biehn played Ringo. He actually has a strong resemblence to the photo above.

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