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#OSKETCH OF OLD WEST GUNFIGHT MOVIE#

“In spite of their extreme rarity, these fast-draw duels became a staple of all those movie scenes where the Hollywood emphasis was on speed alone,” says O’Neal. Hickok took a split second longer, steadied his gun with his left hand, carefully aimed, and hit Tutt in the chest. Tutt snapped off the first bullet and missed. “That’s one very difficult shot with a Civil War-era piece.” “They were about 75 yards from each other with cap-and-ball revolvers when Hickok said, ‘Dave, don’t come any closer,’ ” notes O’Neal. And Tutt into a body lying face down on the road. Either way, the short, decisive two-shot battle in the town square the following July evening at 6 p.m. Some say it was a dispute over a watch that prodded gambler Dave Tutt into this fatal mismatch with “Prince of Pistoleers” James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok. 'Wild Bill' Hickok “WILD BILL” HICKOK VERSUS DAVIS TUTT JR.Ī heated, drunken card table quarrel one fateful night at the Lyon House in Springfield, Missouri, led to the most famous - and one of the few - prearranged quick-draw duels in Western history.

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So feel free to set us straight, partner - after checking your six-gun at the door, please. Still others aren’t on the list and no doubt should be. Some of these Top 10 gunfights we all know - or think we do. “And when you place that life-and-death conflict in an Old West setting, it just makes the drama that much more compelling and irresistible to American audiences.” “There’s nothing as dramatic as life-and-death conflict,” says Western historian Bill O’Neal, author of Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, which logs about 600 of the biggest bullet skirmishes of the era. And they became an indelible part of America’s Western heritage, like it or not.Īnd, cringe at the violence or not, they definitely weren’t dull. 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. 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. 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. Gunfight at the O.K.Blood, bullets, and buckskin - the story of the Old West is revealed in some of its most infamous showdowns.Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight, April 14, 1881, El Paso, Texas.Variety Hall Shootout, January 22, 1880, Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory.Long Branch Saloon Gunfight, April 5, 1879, Dodge City, Kansas.Battle of Lincoln, July 15–19, 1878, Lincoln, New Mexico Territory.Battle of Blazer's Mill, April 4, 1878, Mescalero, New Mexico Territory.Goingsnake massacre, April 15, 1872, Tahlequah, Indian Territory.Gunfight at Hide Park, August 19, 1871, Newton, Kansas.Wild Bill Hickok–Davis Tutt shootout, July 21, 1865, Springfield, Missouri.Broderick–Terry duel, September 13, 1859, San Francisco, California.Bellevue War, April 1, 1840, Bellevue, Iowa Territory.Corral were the outcome of long-simmering feuds and rivalries but most were the result of a confrontation between outlaws and law enforcement. The most notable shootouts took place in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Gunfights have left a lasting impression on American frontier history many were retold and embellished by dime novels and magazines like Harper's Weekly during the late 19th and early 20th century.

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