Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 140 years ago today. How time flies !! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 140 years ago today, one of the nation's first gun control laws was enforced... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 26 Author Share Posted October 26 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) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 To quote Elmer Keith, "Hell, I was there!" 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 55 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: 140 years ago today. How time flies !! Ah yes, I remember it like it was yesterday... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 54 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: 140 years ago today. How time flies !! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 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... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 Well, you have to admit, the Gunfight at Fly's Photography Shop doesn't quite have the same ring to it... 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 I just realized my Grandfather, was 8 years old when that happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bob Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 My grand pappy was 31 ... But safely up here in Canada .... Ranching Jabez Cowboy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 Grandpa was just shy of five. October 29th, 1876. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 It is probably more accurate to say: "gunfight near the ok corral". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 "...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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 Geez, you guys must be old, my great grandfather was but a wee lad then. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 27 Author Share Posted October 27 My grandfathers were both born in the 1890's in Italy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 As I look through this I was envisioning a spoof, Val Kilmer could pull it off, “face slap at the OK Corral”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 All of a sudden? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Dago Dom Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 Probably a lot of primers back then. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 If I'm not mistaken the OK Corral gunfight was mostly just local news until Wyatt Earp's biography came out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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