Tuesday, July 7, 2015

July 21, 1865---High Noon

JULY 21, 1865:                    
 
Once friends, Unionist Wild Bill Hickok and former Confederate Davis Tutt have a one-on-one shootout at midday in the town square of Springfield, Missouri over a bad hand in a card game. Tutt is shot to death yelling, “Boys, I’m killed!” 

 
The showdown at “High Noon” becomes a legendary staple of Westerns, though this incident is one of only very few documented “reach for it!” gunfights.

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