Who is your favorite Wild West gunslinger?

I'm a Doc Holliday man myself, interesting cat. Plus I always thought Val Kilmer was entertaining as hell when he played him in Tombstone.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Holliday

Although I doubt that real gunslingers were able to function in such tight britches


...I'm surprised Robert Conrad was able to procreate

I NEVER missed an episode of "WWW"! Homework be darned!

He is why I remember where I was on November 22, 1963: Home sick, watching "Hawaiian Eye".

Guys with guns and hats...all the same to me.

Nice guy.

:)

pancho drank the wine

i even hear he did salted peanuts out the can

as well.

I'd like to see if the show is as I remember it.

craggy faced guy in black who reads Shakespeare and Byron...and shoots people!
I don't shoot people :)

Tombstone is a modern western that I enjoy watching over and over again. Perhaps tonight I will rewatch it on the big screen here at home.

That man had style.


edit: I hate it when sites don't let me hotlink. It takes a whole FIVE CLICKS to upload pics to my own server.

Although he was known as the deadliest man to fuck with.

The rifleman was a fictional character, as was most everyone mentioned in these replies.

Lighten up Francis we're just having fun. Take it to GD.

t.v. characters weren't mentioned in the OP. Know your history, ralph.

I think from now on I'll stick to the "Why does my leg itch?" or "What should I eat for lunch?" threads.

You know..... The interesting ones.

They obviously don't know Lounge etiquette.

Good grief, you'd think by his reaction, I called his mother a frog-fucking whore or something...:crazy:

complete you?

but whatever people want to mention is cool with me. It's all for fun, Joe. :)

if only because he is another distant relative. We are both descendants of William Hickok 1609 who came to the US in the 1640s.

I am pretty sure he was a gunslinger as the unabridged defines it - "a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the West."

before or since. Doc was just a perfect once in a lifetime role for him. Although, Val is underratedly great in "Spartan " which is a solid film. David Mamet wrote and directed it, I believe.

But he was chewing up the scenery in that one...

I think part of the reason is he is an unsufferable prick to work with, or so I've heard. :)

I can see how a difficult actor can deflate a director into not getting the performance out of the guy that he should be able to inspire. Val's brilliant, but after awhile I imagine a director just wants to move on with shit instead of dealing with the guy.

Calamity Jane

Robin Weigert's version in Deadwood.

Rude and crass warning...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeICWkB3V3o

:toast:

I love that show. I was trying to get season three at Blockbuster last night but the first few dvds were out. I plan on getting all five discs and burning through them in a few days. :)

on edit:

I've seen Robin Weigert on another tv show or movie, can't remember offhand. It's amazing how she transforms into Jane for Deadwood. Beautiful woman, well-spoken, but as Jane she is just foul-mouthed gold! :)

He began acting in films in 1944 as Al LaRue, appearing in two musicals and a serial before being given a role in a Western film that would result in him being cast in a cowboy persona for virtually the rest of his career. He was given the name Lash because of the 18-foot-long bullwhip he used to help bring down the bad guys. The popularity of his first role as the Cheyenne Kid, a sidekick of singing cowboy hero Eddie Dean, not just brandishing a whip but using it expertly to disarm villains, paved the way for La Rue to be featured in his own series of Western films.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lash_La_Rue

And I rode the bus with Lash LaRue!
When I was a kid back in the 50s.
The Alabama State Fair was in session in Birmingham.
He was featured at the grandstand show.

I caught the bus on the southside for the trip through downtown and then out to the fairgrounds.

We made a stop at the Tutwiler Hotel (THE hotel in B'ham then) and damned if Lash didn't get on.
In costume, WITH his bullwhip.
I was absolutely blown away.
So much so that I didn't even ask for his autograph.
He looked a lot like Humphrey Bogart.

Years later I figured he must have been on the skids.
Reduced to playing state fairs and riding the damned city bus to his gig.
And his manager obviously sucked.

With a derringer there's no need to sling.

:)

Ike:





Billy (far right, after the OK Corral gunfight):





Not gunslingers per se, but cattle rustlers and horse thieves, and accused of robbing a stagecoach, which is what led to the gunfight.

I'm related to 'em. :D

in all of this. He wants to know if you know anything about Phin Clanton. He's pretty interested in all of that stuff. That's cool that you're related to them.

Yeah I have no real rules for the thread, real or tv, horse thieves, whatever it all works. :)

No genealogists or historians in my family. :(

Other than the fact that I'm related to 'em (Clanton was my mom's maiden name), I got everything I know from here and here.

I'm related to a guy named Lewis Wetzel, a famed Indian killer. I'm an enrolled Blackfeet Indian. :) Genealogy is some wild stuff. :) I don't know much about mine, my brother tells me a few things from time to time. Researching history is his thing. :)

I've had 2 in mind of late: 1) John Wesley Hardin who never shot a man "who didn't deserve it."

2) Buffalo Bill, before he became the wild west show star. He is a compelling character. At age 14 signed on to be a wrangler for one of the early wagon trains from Kansas to California, ( a wrangler took care of all the horse stock; he had a wide reputation as a horseman). Once he arrived, he turned around and rode back to Kansas, the leavenworth area, by himself. The punchline to this story is that upon his return, a significant feat for anyone to do solo, let alone a young teen, his mom welcomed him home and informed him school was starting she expected him there the next day. Ho-hum. Actually his father was part of the free state movement and helped support the underground railroad. He came from good stock.

Seems like 10 years ago
Though today my mind is slow
Me and Mickey Craig were running west from Idaho
Robbed a bank to get some bread
Seems like 15 men lay dead
In a path that led us straight to Santa Rosa

Now and then ol' Mick'd say
Boy at home you should of stayed
Than to follow me and learn the life of looking back
But he'd spit and slap his side
Just to see if he's alive
Then he'd sing his banjo song of Santa Rosa

He said whoa-oh, singing oh Santa Rosa
Whoa-oh, high and low-oh-oo
Then one day, sang ol' Craig,
I'll be free to go my way
And be standing by the bay at Santa Rosa

Now one time late at night
Mickey lit no fire light
Cause he feared the posse close behind might flush us out
But he picked a bit 'fore sleep
To the tune of Cripple Creek
He was murdered by a man from Santa Rosa

And he sang whoa-oh, singing oh Santa Rosa
whoa-oh, singing oh Santa Rosa
whoa-oh, high and low-o-o
Til I come once again with my banjo pickin' friend
We'll be oh high and low in Santa Rosa

He was always a badass.

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Oh man, when did that happen?

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