For any of you history buffs out there. They always do it up big in Northfield with "The Defeat of Jesse James Days". I used to work with a guy who participated every year. Rode his horse into Northfield, six-guns blazing, got killed. Every year....
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I used to work with a guy who participated every year. Rode his horse into Northfield, six-guns blazing, got killed. Every year.... I'd like to do that. After a few years.. I would ride through town, steal the gold, and not get shot on the way out.
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05/15/2007 5:34:02 PM PDT by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
My great grandfather and his brother were sheriff and undersheriff in Sherman TX. The James brothers went there periodically to visit their sister. My gggrandfather Henry and his brother Frank never bothered them because there were “good southern boys.”
4 posted on
05/15/2007 5:45:38 PM PDT by
Mercat
6 posted on
05/16/2007 10:48:11 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 11, 2007.)
another group of slow learners, from 1892 -- the Dalton Gang, four dead, one later hanged (if memory serves), plus a couple of modern tourists:
7 posted on
05/16/2007 10:55:00 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 11, 2007.)
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