"Irish-born cowboys were the fastest guns in the west " Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Aug 2018 9:07 p.m. PST |
…once upon a time. "Eight months after the June 5th 1882 murder of notorious Irish gunfighter James Leavy in front of the Palace Hotel in Tucson, Arizona Territory, professional gambler and fellow Irishman Johnny Murphy rose to make a statement upon his acquittal: Your honor, I thank you and the jury, but I desire to say that I have lived all my life on the frontier. I was honorably discharged from the navy, when a young man, on the coast of Florida, and came right through to the frontier. I have been amongst rough men all my life, have stopped many a bad fight, and never before been in any trouble. I regret this occurrence, but what I did was done by me conscientiously and with a belief that it was all I could do to save my own life, and it was done in self-defense….."
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| jdginaz | 21 Aug 2018 9:33 p.m. PST |
"professional gambler and fellow Irishman Johnny Murphy" So not a cowboy. |
| Tango01 | 22 Aug 2018 1:01 p.m. PST |
A cowboy didn't gamble?…. what about Bat Masterson?… (smile) Amicalement
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| jdginaz | 23 Aug 2018 12:10 p.m. PST |
Yes they did but not professionally. Bat Masterson wasn'e a cowboy. Cowboys punch cattle. |
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