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To: xsrdx
I can't wait to look this guy up!

Aside from Wikipedia and the other usual suspects, here's a real interesting starting place.

38 posted on 11/08/2007 9:56:48 AM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: archy
From Wikipedia:

"Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity.

In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent."

—Fitz Hugh Ludlow, 1870.

Sounds like he and Holliday could have had some interesting conversations.

43 posted on 11/08/2007 11:43:47 AM PST by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: archy
And it appears Rockwell is responsible for "I never killed anyone who didn't need killing."

Impressive resume, amazed I've never run across his name in the course of my casual interest in Western gunsligners and lawmen.

45 posted on 11/08/2007 11:52:52 AM PST by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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