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3 unusual facts about gunfighter


Gunfighter

Other western genre themed manga and anime includes Cowboy Bebop and Kino's Journey, both who incorporate knight-errant adventure themes.

Etymologist Barry Popik has traced the term "gun slinger" back to its use in the 1920 Western movie Drag Harlan.

Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James

Gunfighter: The Legend of Jesse James is a Shooter video game developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation.


Best of the West

The Old West spoof featured the misadventures of Sam Best, a Civil War veteran (played by Joel Higgins) who becomes a marshal in Copper Creek after accidentally scaring off an incompetent gunfighter called the Calico Kid.

Brian G. Hutton

In 1958, he played a young gunfighter, "The Kid", in the episode "Yampa Crossing" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins in the title role, with fellow guest stars Roger Smith and Harold J. Stone.

Dan Duryea

In 1959, Duryea appeared as an alcoholic gunfighter in third episode of The Twilight Zone, "Mr. Denton on Doomsday".

Daniel Boone May

Daniel Boone May (1852 – 1878), known as Boone May, was an American gunfighter, of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Deadlands

Players take on the role of various mundane or arcane character types, including Gunfighters, Lawmen (such as U.S. Marshals or local sheriffs), Hucksters (magic users), Shamans, Blessed (those of faith), and Mad Scientists in an attempt to learn about the Reckoning and the mysterious beings behind it.

Dehl Berti

One of his more recognized roles was as John Taylor on the 1988-1991 CBS western television series, Paradise, starring Lee Horsley as the reformed gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord.

Echo Burning

He also took inspiration from seeing the grave of the gunfighter Clay Allison who "never killed a man that did not need killing."

Graham Ingels

In 1948, Ingels was hired by Al Feldstein, the editor of EC Comics, to provide artwork for their titles which included Gunfighter, Saddle Justice, Saddle Romances, War Against Crime, Modern Love and A Moon, A Girl... Romance.

Gunfighter II: Revenge of Jesse James

Gunfighter II: Revenge of Jesse James is a First-Person Shooter video game developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 2.

Hec Ramsey

He still carried a firearm, but had traded his low-slung "gunfighter" rig for a Single Action Army-type revolver with a short barrel, carried in a Cavalry draw holster.

James Earp

Wyatt Earp and James' youngest brother, Warren—with gambler Doc Holliday and gunmen Sherman McMasters, "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson, and Texas Jack Vermillion—then hunted down those they held responsible for the attacks during the Earp Vendetta Ride.

Leon Claire Metz

Metz has penned 17 books, most notably John Selman: Texas Gunfighter and a biography of Old West lawman Pat Garrett.

Robert Allison

Robert Clay Allison (1840–1887), gunfighter and figure of the American Old West

Springfield Model 1870

Wild Bill Hickok, the famous gunfighter, used a variant of the Springfield Model 1870.

The Gunfighter

Bob Dylan referenced scenes from The Gunfighter in his song Brownsville Girl, co-written by playwright Sam Shepard.

The Master Gunfighter

The Master Gunfighter is mainly a remake of the 1969 Japanese film Goyokin, although the story revolves around a true incident in the early 1800s involving massacred Indians that occurred in the vicinity of Goleta, California.

Wild Bill Hickok – Davis Tutt shootout

Several weeks after the gunfight, on September 13, 1865, Colonel George Ward Nichols, a writer for Harper's, sought out Hickok and began the interviews that would eventually turn the then-unknown gunfighter into one of the great legends of the Old West.


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