A few days ago, a band of cowboys arrived in Fort Collins, Col. About the time the boys dropped into town, there also landed there a fresh young dude from the East, who gave his name as Clarence De Puy. Clarry, as the cow-puncers called the dude, wore a shiny silk hat. This, one of the rangers knocked from its owner’s head to the ground. The gang then amused themselves by firing bullets through it until it resembled a sieve. Clarry left town on the next outgoing train, bareheaded.

National Police Gazette, December 29, 1890.