And there was a Wyatt Earp movie where there was a sign saying guns were prohibited. I think there was a ban in Silverado too.
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Maybe, why not? wiki “According to a book by Western historian Carl W. Breihan, the cards were retrieved from the floor by a man named Neil Christy, who then passed them on to his son. The son, in turn, told Mr. Breihan of the composition of the hand. “Here is an exact identity of these cards as told to me by Christy’s son: the ace of diamonds with a heel mark on it; the ace of clubs; the two black eights, clubs and spades, and the queen of hearts with a small drop of Hickock’s blood on it.”[6]”
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One of three theories, certainly possible:
BS Facts :
That Cowboys wore bowlers not ten gallon or stetsons- false, promulgated mostly by the fact that cowboys did love to dress up and get their pictures taken in suits with a bowler hat. But Teddy wrote that anyone wearing a bowler would get teased and quite possible the hat shot right off his head.
“Wild Bill” Hickok) vs Davis Tutt in Springfield, Missouri.
Luke Short vs Jim Courtright
and a few others.
They were rare but they happened.
Yes, they would take them behind the bar, usually.
Not at all. Look on the range or in smaller towns everyone carried or owned a gun. Yes, mostly in larger towns you couldn’t carry one around, sure, just like today.
But no one thought twice about seeing someone on the trail carrying a six-gun and a winchester on their horse.
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2.Nope, wear a bowler hat and maybe get if shot off. Teddy wrote that.
3. Well, maybe. Not many statistics are available.
But that same cite that claims that also claims everyone carried guns:
Historians believe there were less bank robberies in the American West because most of the people carried weapons, so potential robbers were always vulnerable. Criminals don’t want to get hurt undertaking their illegal acts, so they aren’t as likely to pick targets that appear to be willing to fight back.
And then, often they tried taking the guns away.
Semi-related: Doc Holliday’s gravestone in Glenwood Springs doesn’t really mark his grave. He’s buried somewhere in Linwood Cemetery but nobody knows exactly where.
Interesting mystery:
http://www.tombstonetimes.com/stories/where.html
I remember a comic where a town hired a young guy who wore a suit and bowler as a deputy. When the boys at the local saloon gave him the business he cleaned house; it turned out he was a former featherweight champ from Philly.
Yes, and Hugh O’Brien was constantly reminding out-of-towners of the law in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.
Certainly true in the golden age of Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s (although even then there were often Mexican characters). But since the 1980s at least (e.g. Silverado) most depictions of the Old West have included black characters.
Those saloon bar fights where folk get chairs and/or bottles broken over their heads have got to be fictional. Quite often the victim gets up and carries on fighting. In real life they’re either going to be seriously injured or dead. And as for the way gunshot wounds are portrayed…
Movie and TV representations of Mr. Earp’s life seem to have left out his seedier side:
I remember a letter to the editor of *TV Guide *back in the 60s, when blacks were showing up on TV. Someone was complaining that you couldn’t put Black people in everything, with the line, “There were no Black cowboys. That was a ridiculous as portraying a white slave.”
TV Guide responded that after the Civil War, many freed slaves went west to work as cowboys. And the word “slave” derives from “Slav,” who were often enslaved in the Middle Ages and were white.
In 1965, Raymond St. Jacque played Simon Blake in season 8 of Rawhide. He was the first African-American actor to have a recurring role in a TV Western series.
Teddy who?
Roosevelt. In his memoirs about Ranching & hunting there.
“It’s only a flesh wound.” So you just wrap a bandana around it and you are good to go. If it was really bad, the girl in the gingham dress might need to rip off a sleeve.
Interesting. I’m surprised it was that early.
What about train robberies? You see it in movies a lot, where a gang of outlaws on horses will block the tracks to force a train to stop so they can rob it. In reality I would think a train running at full speed would just plow right through anyone stupid enough to try that, rather than stop.