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Thread #59418 Message #3727079
Posted By: Rapparee
29-Jul-15 - 09:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Amos, your acceptance of my apologies is humbly accepted. I shall continue to try to enhance my self-abasement so that I can someday be no longer worthy of self-abasing behavior.
A little known fact:
On Friday, August 30, 1889, Jeff's train made a scheduled stop at the Pocatello depot. During the wait, a man in railroad switchman clothes came up to the window of the railroad car where Jeff sat and fired at him five times, point blank. All but one bullet missed injuring him. It came so close that it mutilated half Jeff's mustache as it whizzed by. Jeff drew pistol and returned three shots, all striking their targets, two in one fleeing assailant and one in another. Next, railroad personnel "tried to mob" him, as Jeff put it, but "we stood them off," and Jeff and his party, with the aid of "a few good citizens," left Pocatello on a hasty, twenty-five-mile horseback ride north to Blackfoot (at that time the county seat).
With him was famed Earp gunman, "Texas Jack" Vermillion. Also with Soapy were Soap Gang members "Fatty Gray, " G. E. "Auctioneer" Roberts, J. W. Allen, and Soapy's younger, hot headed brother, Bascomb.
It's not the OK Corral, but it will do. Smith was acquitted on September 1,1889 and went on to be shot to death on a wharf in Skagway in 1898.