Shake and Mattie Gilman were a De Beque area couple who dressed like wild-west characters, raised ponies, and used to come into town to buy ice cream for the children. They enjoyed getting very drunk and shooting their guns. During one sad incident, Mattie was messing with Shake and shot her gun at him, trying to get him to climb higher up a tree. Mattie accidentally shot and killed Shake, then she went to prison for a year for her crime.
