Posted on 10/12/2015 3:21:46 AM PDT by lowbridge
...speaking of the far away shot in post 12, even with modern digital technology, how could they possibly do such a well focused zoom-in to Billy and that other guy from that distant photo?
Recalls an episode of the Richard Boone series...
“Have Gun Will Travel Season 4 Episode 4 - Out at the Old Ball Park”
in which Paladin is the umpire for two fractious gangs. Has moments of hilarity.
available on youtube
Clearly a fairly prosperous place, everyone well dressed by the standards of the day, especially the young girls in their aprons as well as the woman on hirseback. Clearly not sod busters who had no time for leisure activity.
Interesting building. Seems to be one large room as you can see the window on the far side. Maybe a school or meeting house. Also the lack of any outbuildings, no wood stack, water pump, sheds, or fencing, so not a house.
I’ve always wondered....what did that hat look like before someone sat on it?
Hey thanks everybody! Great pictures!
Yes, it definitely looks like a public building of some sort. The gathering seems to be a family or two, plus the Regulators gang.
I like to play croquet. I could have played a game with Billy!
When I was a kid, all the kids on the block played croquet all the time.
I guess they don’t anymore.
English-born John Tunstall and his business partner Alexander McSween, with backing from established cattleman John Chisum, opened a competing store in 1876. The two sides gathered lawmen, businessmen, Tunstall’s ranch hands[1] and criminal gangs to their support. The Murphy-Dolan faction were allied with Lincoln County Sheriff Brady, and supported by the Jesse Evans Gang. The Tunstall-McSween faction organized their own posse of armed men, known as the Regulators, to defend their position, and had their own lawmen, town constable Richard M. Brewer[2] and Deputy US Marshal
That’s the version of the photo that lead to the idea tha Billy the Kid was left handed. Some where along the line, probably during newspaper publishing, the image was reversed.
Tip off is the apparent location of the rifle’s loading gate which was manufactured on the right hand side,
Button locations also support this, though only by means of convention.
Billy the Kid was not the Left Hand Gun.
—maybe the influence of John Tunstall——
article says it’s a wedding (reception?)
Were any of the kids named Billy?
Right handed military parade rest with weapon on the right
Hah, yes, one of them did have the name Billy.
Is that from Wikipedia?
He wasn’t military and the loading gate location is conclusive that the image has been flipped.
Winchester never made nor had need to make a left hand version of their lever action rifles, which by the lever’s central location make them ambidextrous in usage but for loading.
do a search on the issue.
I believe Bonney was part of the orphan train that sent impoverished children out west. Several of my family members in the early 20th were orphan train kids.
Americans play croquet.
I wonder if they picked that up from Tunstall, the Brit whom Billie briefly worked for.
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