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Special Interests - Groups & Societies => Cas City Historical Society => Topic started by: Capt. Hamp Cox on May 30, 2004, 10:14:00 AM
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"The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of the gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting - grandstand play - as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip."
Hint: "frontier peace officer" should suffice for now.
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Wyatt Earp
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Bill Tilgaman
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Wyatt Earp
Cheyenne has the correct answer.
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I believe that passage is printed word for word, or really close in Lake's book.
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I believe that passage is printed word for word, or really close in Lake's book.
My source for the "Who said this?" series is Bill O'Neal's Encyclopedia of Western Gunfightrers.