Western Heroes and black hats

[Bengy Roberts]

js when you get a good western,,you think you are there,bengy

[Keith at Tregenna]

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiF3Ri1FysI

[j.sabourn]

Wyatt Earp...Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil survived the famous 1881 gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone Arizona, but the bad blood hadn’t been completely spilled. 3 months later Virgil was gunned down on the street, he didn’t die, but he was crippled for life. Less than 3 months later Morgan was shot in the back playing pool in a saloon-he wasn’t so lucky.Wyatt went on the warpath. He shot dead at least 3 of the men involved, and when the sheriff of Tombstone went to arrest him, he crossed the border into Colorado with his friend Doc Holiday.
By all accounts , Wyatt didn’t use his gun again. He had met a Jewish girl in Tombstone about 1880 a Josephine Marcus . He joined her in San Francisco and together they acquired some oil and mining properties , divided the rest of their lives between homes in Oakland and Los Angeles. There is no evidence of an official marriage but she took his surname .
When he was 80, Earp visited Tombstone for one last look - he was greeted by Coco Cola signs and a souvenir shop outside the famous Tombstone cemetery . He died soon after survived by Josephine. Cowboy actors Tom Mix and William Hart were among his pallbearers.
JS

[j.sabourn]

Johnny Ringo... John Ringgold ( Ringo, to those who knew him) may have been educated ( he’d attended College and knew how to tell people off in Classical Greek and Latin), but he wasn’t smart- he ran with the Clinton gang. He was present at the attempted murder of Virgil Earp and acted as lookout when Morgan Earp was gunned down. He had a run with Doc Holiday in Tombstone -and lucky man ! Survived almost certain death by the arrival of the law. Six months later his luck ran out.
Boots On/Boots Off. His body was found propped against a tree out in a lone canyon. He’d been shot through the right temple with his own colt 45 which was clutched in his right hand. Even though he’d been shot, he literally died with his boots off, that is his boots were missing; the cloth wrapped around his feet showed that he had walked a little way without boots. There were no powder burns around the bullet hole ( which there would have been if the gun had been fired at close range) All the same the judge ruled it a suicide.
Hours after Johnny’s death ,the missing boots turned up - attached to the saddle of his horse, which had been found wandering the range of a local cattle company. There were quite a few suspects at the time - Ringo being one of the less popular figures in his neighbourhood -but it wasn’t until 47 years after after the fact that Wyatt Earp confessed to the slaying, which some may think just a case of wishful thinking.
JS

[cappy]

###my favourite goody in a white hat was johnny mack brown......at the sat morning chi in shields hurray for the goodies boo for the baddies in black hats....the goodies always had bigger 10 gallon hats the baddies only 8 gallon hats.......i know a bloke on this site who has a 20 gallon hat ....but cant tell you who he is cos it comes down to his waist...but i have my syspicions

[j.sabourn]

All depended whether you were an 8 or 10 pint man Cappy. Some used to drink out of their hat, after the horse of course. In my teen years I had a 28 inch waist not big enough to support a gun belt cartridges and gun(s) now about 44 inches and wouldn’t go round. Ref guns not the ones Rob was referring to in another post that he said you knew all about from Mary. Didn’t ask him how he knew. Oh, was in the discharge book post. Cheers JWS
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[Bengy Roberts]

Clay Allison
Known for his unpredictable personality and violent temper, Clay Allison was a gunfighter who is remembered as one of the deranged outlaws of the Old West. Allison fought in the Civil War, but was discharged after a blow to the head started causing erratic behavior in him. Historians believe this event explains some of his shockingly brutal actions. Despite surviving the civil war and being involved in a multitude of gunfights, Allison is most remembered for killing a suspected murder, cutting off his head and bringing it to his favorite bar to share a drink. He met an unimpressive death when he fell from his wagon and broke his neck in 1887. His gravestone is said to read: ”Clay Allison. Gentleman. Gun Fighter. He never killed a man that did not need killing.”
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