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→Tributes to Blasingame
Blasingame's tenure at the JA Ranch partly corresponded with that of Clarence Hailey Long (190-1978), the inspiration of the original "Marlboro Man" advertising campaign.<ref name=PPHM/>
Blasingame's tenure at the JA Ranch partly corresponded with that of Clarence Hailey Long (190-1978), the inspiration of the original "Marlboro Man" advertising campaign.<ref name=PPHM/>
Some six months before his death, Blasingame appeared at the first ever gathering of the American Cowboy Culture Association, which holds the annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration in [[Lubbock]], Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cowboy.org/About/History-And-Purpose|title=National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration, Inc. (Lubbock, Texas)|publisher=cowboy.org|accessdate=September 5, 2013}}</ref>
Some six months before his death, Blasingame appeared at the first ever gathering of the American Cowboy Culture Association, which holds the annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration in [[Lubbock]], Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cowboy.org/About/History-And-Purpose|title=National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration, Inc. (Lubbock, Texas)|publisher=cowboy.org|accessdate=September 5, 2013; no longer on}}</ref>
At Blasingame's funeral in the JA Cemetery (where Eleanor would also be interred thereafter), a tent was erected for friends and the media representatives who attended. No one had been buried in the old ranch cemetery for years, but Blasingame requested to be buried there. Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie "Ninia" Bivins, the only child of owner and ranch manager [[Montie Ritchie]] and herself the JA heir at the time, led an empty saddle procession to the cemetery, with cowboys following her. Mrs. Bivins saddled Blasingame's gray horse and turned his second best pair of boots backwards in the stirrups, much as the military does to honor its fallen comrades by demonstrating an "empty spot" difficult to fill.
At Blasingame's funeral in the JA Cemetery (where Eleanor would also be interred thereafter), a tent was erected for friends and the media representatives who attended. No one had been buried in the old ranch cemetery for years, but Blasingame requested to be buried there. Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie "Ninia" Bivins, the only child of owner and ranch manager [[Montie Ritchie]] and herself the JA heir at the time, led an empty saddle procession to the cemetery, with cowboys following her. Mrs. Bivins saddled Blasingame's gray horse and turned his second best pair of boots backwards in the stirrups, much as the military does to honor its fallen comrades by demonstrating an "empty spot" difficult to fill.