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Elders
     These are men and women who were the modern whipcracker's forerunners, who set the foundations for the whip scene of today by educating the public, setting standards of excellence, and pioneering whip cracking as a sport, a performing art, a martial art, a working person's skill, and a recreational hobby in our world today.
     We honor them for being exemplars of the Bullwhip Experience.
 
Elders
was a Chinese detective in Honolulu in the early part of the 20th Century. He wielded a bullwhip instead of carrying a gun. He was the inspiration for the Charlie Chan movies.

"As a young man, he was a Hawaiian cowboy. He learned to braid his own whips from leather. He never carried a gun, only his whip that he wore as a belt. He had the best ever arrest record on that island. Once he disguised himself and snuck into an illegal gambling game. He pulled out his famous whip and identified himself. More than a dozen men, fearing his whip, surrendered and marched off to jail."   

Brought to our attention by Chris Camp "The Whip Guy"


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SALTBUSH BILL (Roderick William Mills) 
was an Australian drover whose skill with whips (especially long one!) allowed him to travel around the world as an entertainer, appearing before royalty in command performances. He also was the subject of a famous humorous poem.


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Hardcover – December 1, 2013
On Amazon
by Karen Kondazian (Author)
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CHARLEY PARKHURST 
was a stage coach driver in the Old West. A stage driver was called a "Whip," after the main tool they wielded to guide their horses.
Charley was born in 1812 in Vermont. Orphaned in youth, Charley learned how to drive 6-horse teams with great skill.
In 1849, Charley went West in the California Gold Rush, hiring on as a Whip with the California Stage Company.
Charley was kicked by a horse and lost the use of one eye, leading to the nickname of One-Eyed Charley, and Cock-Eyed Charley.
Even with only one eye, Charley earned a fine reputation as one of the best Whips in the West. Reportedly, someone saw Charley grab a lizard with a whip, toss it in the air, then cut it in half before it came down.
"This was a dangerous era in a dangerous country, where dangerous conditions were the norm."
When Charley died in 1979 in Watsonville, California, even the New York Times ran the obituary.
Because when friends and neighbors went to Charley's cabin to lay the body out for burial, they discovered that Charley Parkhurst - was a Woman!
That was Charley Parkhurst, one of the best Whips in the Old West, and the First Woman to vote in a presidential election in the United States, in 1868.

Full bio here.
NY Times obituary here.

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