Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Elmer McCurdy is not exactly a household name. Unlike Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jesse and Frank James, or Billy the Kid, his exploits as a train and bank robber never gained him much infamy. Neither did his status as one of the last real Wild West outlaws, killed in a shootout with the law. (He’d never be taken alive, he said.) No, Elmer McCurdy gained his fame more than 60 years after his death, in 1976, when memories of those wild days on the frontier were dying with the last people who’d lived them. That’s when the crew of The Six Million Dollar Man borrowed an amusement park fun-house to shoot an episode. As one of the crew members moved a dummy, its arm fell off—revealing that the dummy was actually a mummy. McCurdy, specifically, as an autopsy later revealed. It seems that after being shot, someone had gone to the funeral home and identified themselves as McCurdys' long-lost brother in order to take the body. In fact, he was a carnival owner. (Carnivals did a brisk trade in outlaw corpses to attract crowds in the early days of the 20th century.) McCurdys' body also spent time as repayment for a bad debt, playing a mummy in a freak show, and collecting dust in a wax museum storage space before he became a fun-house prop. McCurdy was finally laid to rest on Boot Hill in Guthrie, Oklahoma, 66 years after he was killed. Were it not for a clumsy prop crew member, who knows where he'd be today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: Were it not for a clumsy prop crew member, who knows where he'd be today. He could have been President…Oh, wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 It is possible that my eyes are not in focus yet. It is quite early in the morning. But I believe the picture is not quite in focus. Here's one of the tombstone where I could actually read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 7 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: He could have been President…Oh, wait! He could still vote for president. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 7 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said: He could can still vote for president. ...... fixed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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