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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 26, 2010 - 01:43pm PT
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The most famous gunfight in western history occurred in a narrow alley next to C.S. Fly's photography studio in Tombstone, AZ Territory.
(also my sister's and grandfather's birthday)
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Oct 26, 2010 - 02:49pm PT
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Had no idea. May have to go out to the range and pop a few off.
Thanks Ron.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2010 - 03:26pm PT
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Some say that the Cowboys was the first organized crime in the US.
I doubt it, but it is also fair to say that Earp wasn't exactly lilly white (not to mention Doc, who a few years later shot a deputy in Leadville CO).
I actually walked past the very spot 6 weeks ago.
I just saw a marvelous film that really captures the feel of the mid 1920s Oklahoma. It is a true story about the last days of a lawman who was reputedly once a partner of Wyatt Earp named Bill Tilghman.
It stars Sam Elliot along with Arliss Howard (who is always interesting) as a corrupt coke sniffing Fed, and Carolyn McCormick (looking far finer than in Law & Order) and is titled You Know My Name.
Check it out.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Oct 26, 2010 - 03:39pm PT
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There's an interesting take on the event in a novel called "Territory" by Emma Bull. (I think she lives in Tombstone now -- or maybe Tucson).
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2010 - 03:40pm PT
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Must be a Bull story.
Care to share?
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Oct 26, 2010 - 04:13pm PT
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Sam Eliot...got my attention. I'll watch anything with him in it. Happy birthday to your sister and grandpa.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2010 - 05:13pm PT
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My grandfather was often in loco parentis with my dad always on tour. Not a very good example I'm afraid. I used to meet him and his young mistresses for lunch.
Other times when more of the family went out (and lady friends not) he would show his mischievous side by flicking tiny wads of bread 40' across the restaurant aiming for some woman's cleavage.
But he was also a real sharp, forward thinking guy. He took his wife and young daughter to England and then America in 1939, leaving much behind in Amsterdam including his 6 siblings and their families, who had resisted his urgings to flee.
Half died in the camps.
He died when I was 19, but my little sis just turned 39, great job and 2 beautiful and smart kids.
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