"Pistol Pete" Francis / Frank Boardman Eaton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eaton

On March 15, 1997, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame posthumously honored Frank Eaton with the Director's Award. Eaton's youngest daughter Elizabeth Wise, together with Oklahoma State University President James Halligan, accepted the award for Eaton. On April 9, 2022, Frank Eaton was posthumously inducted by the National Cowboy Western Heritage Center and Museum in Oklahoma City into the Hall of Great Westerners. The award was accepted by three of Eaton's grandchildren, (Elizabeth Wise's children), William Wise, Dinah Wagner and Harvey Wise. Sharing the stage with them were 27 former Oklahoma State University Pistol Pete mascots.

Folk Figure. A former deputy U.S. Marshal who claimed to have killed 11 men with the Colt .45 he wore strapped to his side. He served as deputy U.S. Marshal under Judge Isaac C. Parker "hanging judge" in the Indian Territory. Frank Eaton was known as "Pistol Pete," a nickname he acquired at the age of fifteen when he out shot U.S. cavalry men in a contest at Fort Gibson,Oklahoma. In 1923, Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University) students asked him to be the model for the campus mascot. The university still uses Pistol Pete as its mascot today.

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