EAGLES DON'T CATCH FLIES (l. 'Aquila Non Captat Muscas')
Life is decorated with many myths & legends, and plenty of other bullshit - but there's real stuff around if you know where to look:
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-january-11-2019?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ActiveResponseTraining+%28Active+Response+Training%29
.. Another wee gem from Greg Ellifritz's Weekend Knowledge Dump. - via Claude Werner ..
THE MYTH OF THE TWO-GUN MAN .. From 'The American Mercury' of October 1937:
- well worth reading about our Western Heroes from page 33:
- I'd add that while there surely were plenty of silver back hard-men around the West - it's also notable that the saddle weary cowboys would squabble around the chuck wagon over who'd get the peppermint sweeties that came in the packs of roasted coffee beans.
"There were, however, real two gun men on the frontier - of a different stripe from the blazing figures on pulp-magazine covers. They carried two guns, but used only one at a time. The second gun involved a deadly trick employed against their adversaries. For example, a gambler in a Western faro hall would be fully dressed with his orthodox holster weapon: a large Colt revolver. He wore it outside where the world could see;"
"But gamblers, from habits engendered in following their profession, do not believe in giving the other fellow a break. So they evolved a way to kill him quickly with a minimum of risk to their own mortality chart. The second gun was small- perhaps a derringer. It was ingeniously concealed, in the left sleeve, in the crown of the hat, possibly in the top of a boot or even under a newspaper on the table. The hapless cowboy, probably a youngster and full of whisky, robbed of his earnings by crooked cards, would become angry. He would start, in his befuddled state, to go for his holster. But the gambler, by making a decisive movement toward his hat, his sleeve, or under the newspaper, would beat him to it by seconds. The cowboy hadn't a chance; he rarely managed even to draw his gun. A Western historian tells me that three out of four shooting deaths on the frontier were caused not by big-holster revolvers, but by the spiteful little second guns."
https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/american_mercury_october_1937_2.pdf
Page 33 is where this expose' starts - So tall stories are destroyed by facts ... who'd have guessed that? - Other interesting stuff in this PDF too.
Marty K.
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