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On January 7, 1874, Allison killed a gunman named Chunk Colbert, who was known to have already fought and killed seven men by this time. After first racing their horses, [ 13 ] Colbert and Allison entered the Clifton House, an inn located in Colfax County, New Mexico , where they sat down together for dinner. [ 8 ]
David Rudabaugh (July 14, 1854 – February 18, 1886) was a cowboy, outlaw and gunfighter in the American Old West.Modern writers often refer to him as "Dirty Dave" [1] because of his alleged aversion to water, though no evidence has emerged to show that he was ever referred to as such in his own lifetime.
Filming started in June 1955. [2]Female lead Karin Booth was married to the grandson of Allan Pinkerton—founder of the world-famous Pinkerton Detective Agency—and producer Edward Small announced plans to star her as a female Pinkerton detective, but no film seems to have resulted.
The Ballad of a Gunfighter is a 1963 [3] Western film starring Marty Robbins. The film has two characters from Robbins' western ballads – Felina from El Paso, and Secora from San Angelo. [4] The movie is set in 1800s San Angelo, Texas and premiered in that city on August 21, 1963. [1]
The gunfighter is also one of the most popular characters in the Western genre and has appeared in associated films, television shows, video games, and literature. A gunfighter could be a lawman , outlaw , cowboy , or shooting exhibitionist , but the professional gunfighter was a mercenary "hired gun" ( cf. freelancer ) who made a living with ...
However, on April 30, 1880, Dave Rudabaugh and a man named John Allen burst into the jail to free Webb. The jailbreak was unsuccessful, but Rudabaugh shot and killed the jailer, Antonio Lino Valdez. Rudabaugh escaped capture but was later arrested, while working with Billy the Kid , on December 23, 1880.
In 1878, a hardened American gunfighter arrives in a small town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a place that doesn't understand or appreciate the brutal code of the American Wild West. Gunslinger Sean Lafferty ( Paul Gross ), known as the Montana Kid, has a bounty on his head for killing eleven people across the western United States.
The Last of the Fast Guns is a 1958 American Western film directed by George Sherman and written by David P. Harmon.The film stars Jock Mahoney, Gilbert Roland, Linda Cristal, Eduard Franz, Lorne Greene and Carl Benton Reid.