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Friday, March 05, 2021

The Hickok–Tutt shootout

The Hickok–Tutt shootout was a gunfight that occurred on July 21, 1865 in the town square of Springfield, Missouri between Wild Bill Hickok and gambler Davis Tutt. It is one of the few recorded instances in the Old West of a one-on-one pistol quick-draw duel in a public place, in the manner later made iconic by countless dime novels, radio dramas, and Western films such as High Noon. The first story of the shootout was detailed in an article in Harper's Magazine in 1867, making Hickok a household name and folk hero. 
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  1. AnonymousMarch 5, 2021 at 3:56 AM

    Dumbfuck Hickock couldn't pay his gambling tab...

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    1. JeremyRMarch 5, 2021 at 8:01 AM

      You say that yet Hickock had just won about $200 of Tutt's money from his cohorts. The debt was old and from when they had been friends.

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  2. DarrellMarch 5, 2021 at 8:05 AM

    75 yards with a cap and ball pistol.

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    1. AnonymousMarch 6, 2021 at 12:32 AM

      That's 225 feet in American (not commie metric) (they didn't have metric back then) good shooting offhand.

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  3. robMarch 5, 2021 at 8:21 AM

    I don't think a situation where Hickock "steadied his pistol across his opposite forearm" at a range of 75 yards qualifies as a "quick-draw duel."

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  4. AnonymousMarch 5, 2021 at 9:24 AM

    "the judge was Sempronius H. Boyd."

    There is a name that I have never heard before.
    As I read this, I wondered who looks at their newborn child and decides to saddle him with a name like that....

    Tim in AK

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