"Blood, bullets, and buckskin - the story of the Old West" Topic
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| Tango01 | 31 Jan 2025 4:13 p.m. PST |
… is revealed in some of its most infamous showdowns.
"It needs to be asked: Of all the heady "Top 10" subject matter we could scour for discriminating C&I history buffs, why gunfights? Well, certainly not because we would ever actually endorse people (even ones with last names like James or Earp) engaging in such grave behavior — at least not without a John Ford-caliber director and a good makeup artist present.
Maybe it's because we just can't quite get our heads around the fact that, unlike Burt Lancaster's winning turn as Wyatt in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral or Robert Duvall's maniacal portrayal of Jesse in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, these larger-than-life characters, these wilder-than-anything events, actually existed in some raw, unfictionalized shape or form. They were real. And lethal. And they became an indelible part of America's Western heritage, like it or not…"
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| Choctaw | 03 Feb 2025 6:36 a.m. PST |
At least Ingalls made this list. |
| Tango01 | 04 Feb 2025 2:53 p.m. PST |
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