Kiwanis Auction Prize: Be a member of the Cataract Creek Gang for a day

The Cataract Creek Gang performs on Route 66 in Williams, Arizona. This gang of western reenactors is known to occasionally rob the Grand Canyon Railway train. (Wendy Howell/Williams-Grand Canyon News, File Photo)

The Cataract Creek Gang performs on Route 66 in Williams, Arizona. This gang of western reenactors is known to occasionally rob the Grand Canyon Railway train. (Wendy Howell/Williams-Grand Canyon News, File Photo)

Among the prize items available during the 71st annual Kiwanis Auction is a unique Grand Canyon western experience. The Williams-Grand Canyon News in conjunction with Courier Cares is offering a winning bidder the chance to be a member of the Cataract Creek Gang for a day.

The group acts in various shootouts in Williams and is responsible for “robbing” the passengers on their train ride back to town from a day at the Grand Canyon.

“It’s a pretty unique thing,” said Lew Rees, events and marketing director for Western News and Info. “I think that anybody who has a taste of the Old West and would have yearned to be in a John Wayne movie or a Clint Eastwood movie, they’re going to get a chance to do it all day long.”

The winning bidder will be able to go to Williams on a day chosen by the Cataract Creek Gang and the Grand Canyon Railway. They will get there by 8:30 a.m. and participate in the morning shootout, stop the train on horseback when it comes back from the Grand Canyon and rob the train and do a second shootout downtown in the evening.

The winning bidder will be provided with all the necessary western gear.


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