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On the night of Sept. 27, 1869, Sheriff Bill Hickok tried to restore order inside a Hays City, Kansas, saloon but a drunken teamster laughed at him. “WILD BILL’S QUICK GUN.” https://tomrizzo.com/last-laugh/ […] 
— LEGENDARY SHOWDOWN — In the late afternoon of July 21, 1865, a man wearing a pair of revolvers strapped to his waist, ivory handles turned forward, walked along a street in Springfield, Missouri, heading for the town square.
The flat, broad-brimmed hat he wore cast a shadow across the blue-gray eyes and long, droopy mustache that belonged to James Butler Hickok. Approaching the square from the south, he […] 
Hospitality isn’t something you would find in all Old West saloons. Some were downright cold, dark, and unfriendly. Many of them stayed open 24 hours a day to accommodate the public. “BOOZE AND BATWINGS.” Read more about frontier saloons here: https://tomrizzo.com/booze-batwings/ […] 
— A GUNMAN’S ADVICE — Wyatt Earp, involved in various shootouts during his career, once told an interviewer speed had nothing to do with success in a gun battle. Earp said “deliberation” was the key—taking the time to aim and pull the trigger once. In a 1928 interview with author Stuart N. Lake, for the book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, Earp also mocked the image of a man holding a gun in each hand, […] |
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