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Gunslinger Dos - giving ol' Hamp a break
« on: December 18, 2003, 04:13:48 PM »
1869, Yorktown, Texas.

In the employ of cattleman John Reagon, ___?___ rode into town and was mistaken for Charles Taylor of the Sutton-Taylor Feud. The Reconstruction troops had been ordered to quell the violent feud in that area, so the soldiers came up to ____?____, thinking he was Taylor and he thinking they were after him for his most recent killing, he immediately took flight.

The squad sargeant was already mounted so he caught up to the fleeing man and ordered him to surrender. ___?____l took out his revolver and put a bullet in the sergeants side. The man fell to the ground fatally wounded and ____?____ rode off.
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« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2003, 01:34:39 AM »
john wesley.
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« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2003, 01:44:56 AM »
Hext,  Was it Bill Longley?
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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2003, 02:06:27 AM »
Yes Ma'am, you are correct.

It was the "other" Wild Bill.. William Longley.

(seems quite a few of them gunfights happened down here, wonder why there aren't a bunch of these stories from Pennsylvania?  They got some wold folks there.....)
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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2003, 02:41:55 AM »
somebody aughtta write a song fer us'n that doan know nutthin--should be titled "shot ouuta tha saddle agin".
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2003, 02:53:49 AM »
They did.  It's "Empty Saddles in the Old Corral".  Riders in the sky did a good version of it.
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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2003, 07:39:45 AM »
'pears 'ol Hext has 'bout as much luck gettin one past Lady GB as I do.  Appreciate the breather, Hext, gave me a chance to go into the Alamo City yesterday and deliver some Christmas gifts to extended family.  Just wonderin' tho, is the next in your series gonna be "Gunslinger Don'ts", or "Gunslinger Tres"?

Don't hit me, I was just funnin.
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« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2003, 02:15:14 AM »
there ya go scarin them city folks agin with yore country drivin.
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