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Title: Who said this? #4
Post by: Capt. Hamp Cox on May 30, 2004, 10:14:00 AM
"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.
Title: Re: Who said this? #4
Post by: Cheyenne on May 30, 2004, 04:50:50 PM
Wyatt Earp
Title: Re: Who said this? #4
Post by: Brazos Bucky Smith on May 30, 2004, 06:34:32 PM
Bill Tilgaman
Title: Re: Who said this? #4
Post by: Capt. Hamp Cox on May 30, 2004, 07:28:32 PM
Wyatt Earp

Cheyenne has the correct answer.
Title: Re: Who said this? #4
Post by: Cheyenne on May 30, 2004, 10:10:45 PM
I believe that passage is printed word for word, or really close in Lake's book.
Title: Re: Who said this? #4
Post by: Capt. Hamp Cox on May 30, 2004, 10:30:32 PM
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.