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player ready...Sometimes the movies don`t tell the full story. With the continued success of Clint Eastwood`s ”Unforgiven,” consider:
– James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok: He was holding aces and eights when he was shot in the back in Deadwood Gulch, S.D., on Aug. 2, 1876, by a guy who said Wild Bill killed his brother.
What the movies don`t say: He was often arrested for vagrancy and among his lovers was Calamity Jane Cannary.
– William Clarke Quantrill, a schoolteacher turned leader of a homicidal gang; he was shot by Union soldiers in a barn yard in Louisville and died June 6, 1865.
What the movies don`t say: He was converted to Catholicism on his deathbed, his mistress used the money he left to open a bordello, and his mother sold his bones to a collector.
– Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, saloon keeper in Tombstone, Ariz., and one of eight guys involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral: He died on Jan. 13, 1929, quietly in bed in Los Angeles.
What the movies don`t say: He lied a lot and sneaked out of one town after an indictment for stealing horses.
– John Wesley Hardin, a psycho who killed his first man at 12 and who died Aug. 19, 1895, in El Paso, Texas, when a marshal shot him in the back in a poker game: His final words: ”Four sixes to beat.”
What the movies don`t say: He formed an alliance in Abilene, Kan., with Wild Bill Hickok that lasted until Hardin killed a man over a barroom comment. – William Barclay (Bat) Masterson, celebrated for his gunplay and gambling in Dodge City: He died in New York City on Oct. 21, 1921, where he was a columnist for the Morning Telegraph.
What the movies don`t say: He was shot and crippled in a Texas barroom fight over a woman and walked with a cane.
– Henry McCarty, alias William (”Billy the Kid”) Bonney, born on the Bowery and raised in the New Mexico territory after his mother remarried and moved West: Legend says he killed 21 men before he was shot dead July 15, 1881, by Pat Garrett while visiting a woman in Ft. Sumner.
What the movies don`t say: A rustler, he was once sentenced to hang, but escaped by killing his two guards.