Rob you dastardly cynic! ;)

The Buntline would have been very good for backshooting at longer ranges....just a thought.

And just when we thought we knew everything about Wyatt, Ike, Doc, Curly Bill, and the rest of the boys. Maybe Guinn should follow up with another volume concerning William Bonney or is it Henry Antrim, oh yes I remember it was actually Brushy Bill Roberts? Or maybe not...
Actually DEP's description of the narrative sounds to me like reading Shelby Foote's three volume history of the civil war. As much as I enjoyed the latter I think I will buy this gunfight book as I dolt on details. One of these days I am going to write a book about Portugee Philips, his ride makes Paul Revere's seem like a stoll in the park on a sunny afternoon.

To Rob: My lies and deceptions are plainly labeled as such. Kindly address all complaints about the magazine to Anthony Licata, the Editor.

My favorite westerns

My Name Is Nobody - SALOON SCENE...!. HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L7DH0CilDk&feature=player_embedded

Gun-slap scene from Trinity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C-fRdCmzDk&feature=player_embedded

Gents; What is the point of a blog if we all agree? So lets stir the pot a bit.

It could easily be argued that the President with the strongest character, greatest courage, brightest, Nobel prize winner (no not Obama, this guy actually did something for his), great outdoor writer (I heartly recommend: The Wilderness Hunter), founder of US conservation movement and the true spirit of America West and by the way posthumously awarded the medal of honor. Oh and he is on Mount Rushmore. That of course would be Theodore Roosevelt. Now Teddy liked to hunt and fish. And he lived for a time in the west (owned a ranch in the badlands of the Dakota territory. He needed to grieve when his first wife and mother died on the same day.). While in the west hunting and fishing (and ranching and traveling) he made acquaintance of some of the west most interesting characters. It is well documented that the gun fighter Bat Masterson was a close personnel friend of TR. It is also well documented that Masterson was a close personnel friend and occasional deputy to: Yep, you see it coming: Marshal Earp. Now you can't validate a friend of a friend, but birds of a feather do flock together. If old Wyatt was such a ne'er do well, how was that one of the greatest men of his century was a close friend of a lifelong close friend. No I didn't read the above book. But Wyatt Earp by Matt Braun is along the same vein but (from the DEP synopsis above), maybe more believable. In the Braun book the guns fights were over the woman Josephine, who had lived with the Sheriff Behan (who is said to have proposed) and been on both sides at one time or another, And Yes I have been to Tombstone and seen the corral. Most historians say it happened exactly as it was recorded. It has been documented to death. The reasons however are murky. Hows that for stirring the pot.

Clay, thanks for those links. Those were the best and I watched them all (almost). You have to laugh watching them. I would have given you a few more +'s if I could.

Hollywood always has to embellish the real history so people will go watch, then they still don't know the REAL history. The Trinity movies were just fun and hilarious.

I met the great grandson of Wyatt Earp once...he worked on
the docks of Oakland, California as a stevedore. The
men there, of course...gave him the nickname of "The Sheriff". He was a nice guy & had a lot of Wyatt Earp's
memorailia...including some guns I was told.
Best Regards,
Tom from Cody

One of the luckiest men alive today.

http://moonbattery.com/?p=3333

white bison

If someone looked back, they might just find they were related to the Dalton Gang. Clay Dalton is my Greatgeeat way back dar father

Who is Snooki and why should I care?

Dang! I'll never be able to watch "Tombstone" the same way again.

i think that's the message "Unforgiven" was telling us. The dime-novelist/"biographer" accompanying English Bob (Richard Harris) had the shock of his life when not only did Sheriff Bill Daggett neutralize the fearsome English Bob so quickly and easily, but also destroyed his reputation by revealing most of Bob's killings were backshootings, or that his opponents were too drunk, etc. From English Bob, the novelist moves over to the sheriff.
Of course, as soon as William Munny "single-handedly" annihilated the sheriff and his men, the novelist was on to him. "You fought them single-handed...That's a Spencer rifle, right?" Who knows what he will actually put in the book?

Who knows what other stories have been embellished beyond recognition?

White Bison, I have considered mentioning the "Lady in Blue" killings several times but never got around to doing it. Meeteetse and Arlen are very interesting places to visit. I suppose in reality Butch's escapades in the former town are better know since one of them involved Otto Franc and landed Butch in the Wyoming territorial prison. After that situation Mr. Franc was found dead suposedly from a hunting accident. All in all it would make a good movie. I wish Bob E. was in good enough shape to tell the whole detailed story.