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Pliney Gardner

Pliney Fisk Gardner (c. 1835 - 1893) was an Old West gunfighter and outlaw. Gardner was born during the 1830s and migrated to California during the 1850s where he made his living as a gambler, earning a reputation as a hard character. He shot a man to death in 1859 at Sonora, California and was indicted with a charge of murder, but released from custody. Gardner then made his living as a hired gun for a mining company being a member of a notorious Daly Gang that terrorized the goldfields between Aurora, Nevada and Carson City during the 1860s in the Nevada Territory.
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2023 at 12:39 AM

    Having read the article, I wonder how one lives off their reputation as a gunfighter. I reckon selling autographs and such. Pretty much a roustabout trading favors.

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    1. wirecutterSeptember 22, 2023 at 7:11 AM

      Well, the article you supposedly read said he owned the bar in Hill's Ferry, so.....

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    2. ElmoSeptember 22, 2023 at 8:57 AM

      Pliney's 'saloon' had as many as fifty 'girls' working in his 'dance hall'.

      Sounds like it was a right popular place to 'dance'.

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    3. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2023 at 1:50 PM

      Having a bad week? I did resd the article. And the timeline it portrays is he lived on his reputation before his tome as saloon owner.

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    4. wirecutterSeptember 22, 2023 at 4:10 PM

      Then surely you read the part about him being a gambler, then a hired gun and a member of the Daly Gang.
      Just because they were gunmen didn't mean that's all they did. Billy the Kid was a cowboy, John Wesley Hardin was a cowboy and a gambler, the Earps did anything they could for money, Doc Holliday was a dentist before he became a gambler, Clay Allison was a cattleman and farmer, and the list goes on and on.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2023 at 12:42 AM

    Also noted, while looking ip various place names, Wiki misappropriates Mexican land grants. Them MFs, there were no such things. It was Spanissh land grants. Them MFs are rewriting history.

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  3. Christopher GardnerSeptember 22, 2023 at 10:21 AM

    Might explain why I am a better shot with my side arm than my AR. Cool!

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2023 at 1:39 PM

    With a name like that you have to be hard.... Pliney was the original Boy named Sue
    JD

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