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The book was part of a Time Life series about the Old West, with many stories from the era. It's mentioned as a source for the lore around John Wesley Harding shooting a man for snoring, and how that lore is perpetuated.
They rescued photographs you didn't know existed. Put it all down while you could still get the straight story about people like these two sons of a Baptist minister. They staged the first daylight ba...
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The book was part of a Time Life series about the Old West, with many stories from the era. It's mentioned as a source for the lore around John Wesley Harding shooting a man for snoring, and how that lore is perpetuated.
They rescued photographs you didn't know existed. Put it all down while you could still get the straight story about people like these two sons of a Baptist minister. They staged the first daylight bank robbery in U.S.A. Frank and Jesse James.
Here's Clay Allison. Call himself a shooter. Here's Drew Henderson. Here's Ricker Matt Masterson who wound up a New York sports writer.
And what kind of lady was wanted for horse stealing and bootlegging? That was no lady. That was Bell Star. John Wesley Harton. The Texas Rangers caught up with him. He shot 44 men, one of them just for snoring too loud. And that's in your first book alone, The Gun Fighters.
And much of the lore, many of the sayings that are attributed to Winston Churchill, he never said. And that's how history is written.
I'll give it 50-50 that he actually shot a man for snoring.