Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 140 years ago today. How time flies !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 140 years ago today, one of the nation's first gun control laws was enforced... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: 140 years ago today, one of the nation's first gun control laws was enforced... “We re not saying you can’t own guns or even carry guns, you just can’t carry them in town” That’s not so bad is it” ( from the movie Tombstone) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 To quote Elmer Keith, "Hell, I was there!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 55 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: 140 years ago today. How time flies !! Ah yes, I remember it like it was yesterday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 54 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: 140 years ago today. How time flies !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 They say it lasted about one minute, give or take...140 years later we are still talking about it...Got to love history... Texas Lizard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 I think it was something like 30 rounds fired in roughly 30 seconds from start to finish. And to think kids these days fire that many rounds in less than 5 seconds at the gun range... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Wasn't even in the OK corral. Was in the alley next to C.S. Fly's photography shop. When I was there last week I genuflected on the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Well, you have to admit, the Gunfight at Fly's Photography Shop doesn't quite have the same ring to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 I just realized my Grandfather, was 8 years old when that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bob Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 20 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: Well, you have to admit, the Gunfight at Fly's Photography Shop doesn't quite have the same ring to it... I think there was probably a lot of truthfulnesses in the book writers character in Unforgiven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 My grand pappy was 31 ... But safely up here in Canada .... Ranching Jabez Cowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Grandpa was 22 years old and working on the railroad in Texas. Grandma, his second wife, was 8 years old, living on a cattle ranch in Texas. I wish I could ask them if they read about it in the newspapers. So many things I wish I could ask them about, now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Grandpa was just shy of five. October 29th, 1876. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 7 hours ago, Texas Lizard said: They say it lasted about one minute, give or take...140 years later we are still talking about it...Got to love history... Texas Lizard Would have faded from memory it if a hollywood screen writer hadn't needed a story for a script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 8 hours ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: I think it was something like 30 rounds fired in roughly 30 seconds from start to finish. And to think kids these days fire that many rounds in less than 5 seconds at the gun range... The gun range wasn't shooting back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 It is probably more accurate to say: "gunfight near the ok corral". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 "...140 years ago today, one of the nation's first gun control laws was enforced... “We re not saying you can’t own guns or even carry guns, you just can’t carry them in town” That’s not so bad is it” ( from the movie Tombstone) ---" so much truth in these statements that define today , not at all happy with that , does it make me a "cowboy" ? the one in the movie or an american ? i think the latter as ill not be rustling cattle or committing crimes seems we got a little carried away with settlin the west and forgot what we really are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Geez, you guys must be old, my great grandfather was but a wee lad then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 27, 2021 Author Share Posted October 27, 2021 My grandfathers were both born in the 1890's in Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 As I look through this I was envisioning a spoof, Val Kilmer could pull it off, “face slap at the OK Corral”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 20 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: I just realized my Grandfather, was 8 years old when that happened. My paternal grandfather was 6 years old at the time. I was 8 yrs old when the last surviving 7th Cavalry soldier who was at the Little Big Horn Battle died. He was Private Charles Windolph, later Sergeant Windolph. He was with Reno's command during the battle. All of a sudden, I feel old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 All of a sudden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Dago Dom Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Probably a lot of primers back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 19 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said: Grandpa was 22 years old and working on the railroad in Texas. Grandma, his second wife, was 8 years old, living on a cattle ranch in Texas. I wish I could ask them if they read about it in the newspapers. So many things I wish I could ask them about, now.... My grandmother said she remembered reading a newspaper article at the time, on the Dalton gang bank raid at Coffeyville, KS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 If I'm not mistaken the OK Corral gunfight was mostly just local news until Wyatt Earp's biography came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 On 10/26/2021 at 12:29 PM, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: Ah yes, I remember it like it was yesterday... I feel like it some days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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