(from a history on son Montie Montana)
"He was born to a pair of traveling Western entertainers — Edgar Owen Mickel and Mary Edna Harlan Mickel, who had a popular whip act. Montie quickly learned to trick-rope.
Edgar was also an adept orator who knew how to preach the gospel, and he had a magic lantern and a collection of slides. He'd use one or more of these talents depending on the audience.
Montie writes: "Dad was such a happy, enthusiastic man, and everyone liked him. E.O. Mickel just never met a stranger. He would give a talk at churches, schools or club houses, and show his slides of cowboys, Indians and Yellowstone Park. This went over real well because the people just didn't travel or get to see much in those days. I would trick rope and we made enough to keep traveling around the country" (Montana 1993:25).
To roust up an audience as the family traveled from town to town before and during the Great Depression, Montie and his parents would distribute handbills. This one reads:
The Mickels / Montana Cowboy Sky Pilots / Formerly with Buck Jones the movie star / In full cowboy costume / Spin ropes and speak.
A "sky pilot" is a horseback preacher.
"He was born to a pair of traveling Western entertainers — Edgar Owen Mickel and Mary Edna Harlan Mickel, who had a popular whip act. Montie quickly learned to trick-rope.
Edgar was also an adept orator who knew how to preach the gospel, and he had a magic lantern and a collection of slides. He'd use one or more of these talents depending on the audience.
Montie writes: "Dad was such a happy, enthusiastic man, and everyone liked him. E.O. Mickel just never met a stranger. He would give a talk at churches, schools or club houses, and show his slides of cowboys, Indians and Yellowstone Park. This went over real well because the people just didn't travel or get to see much in those days. I would trick rope and we made enough to keep traveling around the country" (Montana 1993:25).
To roust up an audience as the family traveled from town to town before and during the Great Depression, Montie and his parents would distribute handbills. This one reads:
The Mickels / Montana Cowboy Sky Pilots / Formerly with Buck Jones the movie star / In full cowboy costume / Spin ropes and speak.
A "sky pilot" is a horseback preacher.
(from a history on son Montie Montana)
"He was born to a pair of traveling Western entertainers — Edgar Owen Mickel and Mary Edna Harlan Mickel, who had a popular whip act. Montie quickly learned to trick-rope.
Edgar was also an adept orator who knew how to preach the gospel, and he had a magic lantern and a collection of slides. He'd use one or more of these talents depending on the audience.
Montie writes: "Dad was such a happy, enthusiastic man, and everyone liked him. E.O. Mickel just never met a stranger. He would give a talk at churches, schools or club houses, and show his slides of cowboys, Indians and Yellowstone Park. This went over real well because the people just didn't travel or get to see much in those days. I would trick rope and we made enough to keep traveling around the country" (Montana 1993:25).
To roust up an audience as the family traveled from town to town before and during the Great Depression, Montie and his parents would distribute handbills. This one reads:
The Mickels / Montana Cowboy Sky Pilots / Formerly with Buck Jones the movie star / In full cowboy costume / Spin ropes and speak.
A "sky pilot" is a horseback preacher.
"He was born to a pair of traveling Western entertainers — Edgar Owen Mickel and Mary Edna Harlan Mickel, who had a popular whip act. Montie quickly learned to trick-rope.
Edgar was also an adept orator who knew how to preach the gospel, and he had a magic lantern and a collection of slides. He'd use one or more of these talents depending on the audience.
Montie writes: "Dad was such a happy, enthusiastic man, and everyone liked him. E.O. Mickel just never met a stranger. He would give a talk at churches, schools or club houses, and show his slides of cowboys, Indians and Yellowstone Park. This went over real well because the people just didn't travel or get to see much in those days. I would trick rope and we made enough to keep traveling around the country" (Montana 1993:25).
To roust up an audience as the family traveled from town to town before and during the Great Depression, Montie and his parents would distribute handbills. This one reads:
The Mickels / Montana Cowboy Sky Pilots / Formerly with Buck Jones the movie star / In full cowboy costume / Spin ropes and speak.
A "sky pilot" is a horseback preacher.
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