c1930 WILD WEST HEROS/VILLAINS ILLUSTRATED CARD, COL. KING STANLEY, OLD DEADSHOT

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c1930 Wild West "Heros and Villains" Illustrated Collector Card - Col. King Stanley "Old Deadshot." The artist is H. O. Rawson, from Worchester, MA, a well known illustrator with a penchant for the Wild West. It's printed on a heavy card stock, and is in excellent condition, although there are a few minor flaws. The top two corners are a bit soft. And there is a little nick in the lower edge. However the surfaces, both in front and in back are perfect. The printing is dark and vibrant. The sheet is clean and crisp with very little age toning. Please see all of the photos above. So you've got to figure that anyone who's been given the honorific of "Colonel" probably deserved it, and might be famous. Read the full description to find out more about this colorful figure.
Item 484521-16 ◊ c1930 Wild West "Heroes and Villains" Illustrated Collector Card - Col. King Stanley "Old Deadshot"
Very rare and fascinating "c1930 Wild West "Heros and Villains" Illustrated Collector Card - Col. King Stanley "Old Deadshot."  The artist is H. O. Rawson, from Worchester, Massachusetts. He was a well known illustrator in lots of literary genres, but he had a real penchant for Wild West heroes and scenes.
Mr. Rawson started  illustrating these cards beginning in the early 1920's, and he produced several cards per year until he covered all the Western Celebrities.   He liked to hide his signature within the drawing on the front of each of his cards.  Sometimes he dated them, and sometimes not.  Look closely at the photo to see if you can find it.
These illustrated cards are part of a series of "Heroes and Villains of the Wild West," which we will be offering over the next several weeks.  This card is printed on a heavy card stock.
Legendary characters of the Wild West have provided drama for Books, Silent Movies and Talkies, Comic Books, TV shows, Roll Playing and Video Games,  and more since the 1870 onward.   A lot of people became famous; their names well-known; heros and gun-slingers alike. Sometimes in the Wild West a person would be both a hero AND a villain.    We'll give you the information, and you can decide for yourself.
This wonderful collector card for "Col. King Stanley" measures 5-1/2" X 4-1/4" (14 cm. X 10.75 cm.)   It is  in excellent condition, although there are a few minor flaws.  The top two corners are a bit soft.  And there is a little nick in the lower edge.  However the surfaces, both in front and in back are perfect.   The printing is dark and vibrant. The sheet is clean and crisp with very little age toning. Please see all of the photos above.
The history:
So you've got to figure that anyone who's been given the honorific of "Colonel" probably deserved it, and might be famous.  The history about his early days is sketchy, but he was a bit of a celebrity later in life.
Colonel King Stanley, who already had a pretty good name, was also known as “Old Dead Shot.” It was an honorific nickname given to him, he claimed, by “Indians of the frontier,” and sometimes his story specifically mentions he received it after shooting his way out of the Battle of Wounded Knee.
But later in life Stanley became a traveling entertainer, crisscrossing the country in different automobiles, always with his likeness and colorful descriptive text painted on the side:  Col. King Stanley, Old Dead Shot Traveler Trailblazer Explorer Lecturer En Route from Here to There.
The Macon Telegraph described Stanley’s typical attire: “…heavy boots that lace to the knee, a red and black hunting jacket and other typical Western apparel, and all that topped by a huge sombrero.” A rattlesnake skin cravat also had a prominent place in the colonel’s wardrobe.
In 1924, the Chandler-Cleveland Motor Car Company decided to hire Stanley to promote its new model, which featured a “One-Shot” lubrication system. The company gave him a 1925 Cleveland Six, and added their own message to his usual artwork: “Old Dead Shot and his ‘One Shot.’” What better way to advertise the reliability of an automobile than have a droopy-mustachioed, suspender-and-boot-wearing trick-shot western scout drive it around the country?
Stanley, 71 years old at the time, visited dealerships from South Carolina to San Diego. This wasn’t his former lonely life as a scout. He had his wife of two years with him, and a mechanic, “Nebraska Bill” Spohn, riding along to keep the Cleveland running like a top.
His wife was just as colorful as he was.  The former Grace Raymond was a lawyer and “newspaper woman,” often called Stanley’s “radio wife” because the couple married in a broadcasting station, supposedly the first marriage ever conducted on live radio. One suspects she might be the mastermind behind Stanley getting the “one-shot” gig.
The couple’s loop around the United States was touted as their million-mile honeymoon. At every stop the Stanleys were appropriately enraptured and complimentary of the town or city. After a nice remark on local climate or hospitality—Macon, Georgia was “the City of Chivalry,” and Phoenix, Arizona the “City of Smiles”—Stanley had a handy quote on how he was equally impressed with his automobile’s one-shot technology: “If I am not badly mistaken, the new lubrication system will materially lengthen the life and serviceability of the Cleveland motor car.”
For a tale-telling cowboy scout, the colonel stayed on script for the motor company, no doubt with help from the newspaper automobile editors and the dealership representatives. Instead of tales of the Wild West, we mostly get “Col. Stanley claims his car is so easy riding that he has never even broken a tube in the five-tube radio set installed in his car.”
The promotion was a success. Stanley’s trip with the Cleveland Six appeared in newspapers across the country.
If you'd like to read the one and only entry that we could find about him on the Internet, google "Dead Shot’s One Shot: A Closer Look OpenSFHistory".  (We aren't allowed to put links in eBay listings.)
A very rare and quite wonderful, "
c1930 Wild West "Heros and Villains" Illustrated Collector Card - Col. King Stanley "Old Deadshot," and a fantastic addition to any Western Themed collection!!!
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