September 2012
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| Once upon a time in the great Dakota territory, there was a cowgirl called Straight-Shootin' Shelby. She was a fearless wagon driver. |
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| Her sister, Hop-Along Holly, from back east in the civilized section of the country, traveled west to experience the adventure of pioneer life. |
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| Hop-Along Holly enjoyed the slower pace of wagon train life, even singing a few lines from Home On the Range because her home was now on the range and it just seemed appropriate. |
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| All was well until Hop-Along Holly spied a tarantula on the trail. She informed Straight-Shootin' Shelby that although she had thoroughly enjoyed the meals of hardack and salt pork, she just could not continue to live in a land where the spiders were the size of dinner plates. |
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| Straight-Shootin' Shelby was sad to see her sister go, but understood that wagon train life wasn't for everyone. On her way back east, Hop-Along Holly met a tribe and decided to study the people and customs of the untamed wilderness. |
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| She became a nanny for the natives... |
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| ...studied the survival techniques of the mountain men, and |
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| opened a restaurant with Gumbo Lil in a gold mining town. |
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| Straight-Shootin' Shelby eventually left wagon train life and traveled with Annie Oakley for a while before... |
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| making a fortune as a gold prospector in the Grand Canyon with a donkey named Brighty. |
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| Even with all their adventures, Hop-Along Holly and Straight-Shootin' Shelby visited each other every year at the annual Jackalope Rodeo in Wall, South Dakota. |
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| Straight-Shootin' Shelby's barrel racing record on a jackalope still stands to this day. Hop-Along Holly worked in the rodeo concession stand and invented the corn dog. The end. :) |
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