Concerning the Talbot Gang cowboy shootout at Caldwell, Kansas...
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December 25, 1881
ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Dec. 25, 1881 The top of page 2 has a brief article headed: "Cowboys Corralled" which concerns the Talbot Gang cowboy shootout at Caldwell, Kansas (see below for details).
Sixteen pages, bit irregular at the spine, nice condition.
On December 17, 1881, yet another shoot-out occurred in one of Kansas’ many cowtowns – this time in Caldwell, Kansas. The gunfight, which lasted long enough for a hardware store to pass out guns and ammunition to townspeople, left two men dead.
The whole affair began the night before when a group of cowboys, led by Jim Talbot, made a ruckus at a presentation of the play "Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in the Opera House. Talbot, a Texas cowboy, and his friends who included Jim Martin, Bob Bigtree, Tom Love, Bob Munson, Dick Eddleman, and "Comanche Bill” Mankin, had been in Caldwell for about 30 days, gambling, drinking and hell-raising the entire time. See the website "Legends of America" for much more.
Sixteen pages, bit irregular at the spine, nice condition.
On December 17, 1881, yet another shoot-out occurred in one of Kansas’ many cowtowns – this time in Caldwell, Kansas. The gunfight, which lasted long enough for a hardware store to pass out guns and ammunition to townspeople, left two men dead.
The whole affair began the night before when a group of cowboys, led by Jim Talbot, made a ruckus at a presentation of the play "Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in the Opera House. Talbot, a Texas cowboy, and his friends who included Jim Martin, Bob Bigtree, Tom Love, Bob Munson, Dick Eddleman, and "Comanche Bill” Mankin, had been in Caldwell for about 30 days, gambling, drinking and hell-raising the entire time. See the website "Legends of America" for much more.
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