[williamlayton]

this is an encouragement for yall to join in and nominate someone you think of when you think of the old west---hey, you can't be wrong and besides it is to share thoughts and info--not to critize. yall got a right to your opinion---look i am wanting to learn and your thoughts are valuable too me.
blessings

 

[Capt Hamp Cox]

Bet he wouldn't reject a nomination even if it came from one of you GIRLS. This is bound to be an equal opportunity forum.

 

[kjeff50cal]

Wild Bill Hickok, because of the way he lived and died.

 

[williamlayton]

i'd have to agree with you, although i'm not sure about on the way he died- :wink: .
blessings

 

[Capt Hamp Cox]

Probably one of the most proficient gunfighters. Accounts I've read indicate he practiced with his handguns (1851 Navys for most of his career, one of which I saw at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, WY) religiously, and, until he got to Deadwood, was very careful about not providing his enemies an opportunity to blind side him. Don't think the manner in which he carved his first notches was anything to write home about.

 

[Dan Chamberlain]

Who do I think of?

Louis Lamour

Frederick Remington

John Wayne



Dan c

 

[williamlayton]

more encouragement--some good post and none that should be argued,but, how about when ya post ya give some insight into the person and why your puttin he/she up for honors. youse guys/gals from over the country--this aint only a texas thang--lets here it from some local color from all over.
blessings
ps-- really i'm interested.

 

[williamlayton]

Thisun died a mysterious death. I had hoped that we could get a greater interest, for myownself, than it received. We got some new folks aroud an maybe ya'll will pitch in on this.
Blessings

 

[IntrepidWizard]

Bill Tlgeman,the best of the shootists,Harding was mean,no good pyscho.

 

[williamlayton]

Bill Tilghman and the other two he rode with often are by no means the least of lawmen. Greatly unknown outside the state of Oklahoma, cept to us Texas boys. This is a great choice.
Who were the other two and what was their nickname.
Blessings

 

[Vance]

Howdy,

Heck Thomas and Chris Madsen were the other two. Their nickname
was "The Three Guardsmen". They worked under Marshal E.D. Nix who
was the U.S. Marshal from July 1893 to February 1896. If my memory
is correct.

Vance

 

[Win 73]

The first western character I think of is naturally my cousin, John Wesley Hardin. Yes, he killed all those people, but we in the family can forgive that minor little character flaw. However later in his life he did something that went beyond the pale, something that was just too much for us to forgive or overlook. He became a lawyer!!

 

[williamlayton]

WIN73--
Who are you and where are you from?
I ask because, when growing up, I learned most of what I know from a Manning, in Polk County who was a cousin to John Wesley. This is where John killed several of the Troopers sent to arrest him after an altercation with a freed slave of about his same age. This was on the old Israel road outside of Livingston.
I would be interested in more detail.
Blessings