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Wanted:Dead Or Alive

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Gay Mathis commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wanted : Dead or Alive'
Pictorial Newspapers--(Link) Excerpt: The first true news pictorial weekly newspapers did not appear in America until 1851. They were made possible by rapid advances in news gathering which resulted in an unprecedented demand for "the latest". The…
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Janet Erwin commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wanted : Dead or Alive'
The poster looked just like the ad, IIRC, so apparently Wallace placed a notice in the newspaper(s) and had posters printed up as well, although as I said earlier, most of them weren't distributed and a box or boxes of them were found fairly recentl…
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Jeff Smith commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wanted : Dead or Alive'
The only thing I could find online was this ad (see below) placed in the newspaper by the governor. You would think if even a few posters had been found that someone by now would have placed a picture of one online. The technology for reproducing p…
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Janet Erwin commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wanted : Dead or Alive'
Nope, there was a poster. Most of them apparently didn't get distributed, and a whole cache of them was found fairly recently in Santa Fe. I think they'd been printed up by the Santa Fe New Mexican, which may be where you all got the idea it was a n…
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Augustus McCrae commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wanted : Dead or Alive'
I back you on that one Wolfgang. The governor had it printed in the Las Vegas Gazette in 1880 and it had no photo. Also it did not state DEAD or ALIVE.
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Wolfgang commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wanted : Dead or Alive'
I've seen on good authority ( if ya call "True West Magazine" a good authority? ) that there was never a wanted "poster" for Billy the Kid. There was a newspaper advertizement. And that text had been used repeatedly for the making of "posters" that…
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Augustus McCrae commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wanted : Dead or Alive'
I read somewhere that it was seldom that the persons mugshot was actually on the earlier wanted posters.
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Janet Erwin commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wanted : Dead or Alive'
I don't know about the others you named, but there was only one wanted poster ever for the "real" Billy the Kid, issued by NM Territorial governor Lew Wallace in late 1880 (I think it was): BILLY THE KID $500 Reward I will pay $500 to any person or…
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Wild Bill commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wild Bill Hickok Revolvers'
Hickok was documented to carry different caliber pistols thru his life but the '51 Navy in .36 cap and ball is the one he's known best for. The only documented (that i know of) reference to him having cartridge pistols is by White Eye Anderson in hi…
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Wolfgang commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Wild Bill Hickok Revolvers'
Lots of infomation . . . . ( and / or mis-information ? ) about this appears regularly. He probably owned a number of revolvers. In the early days he undoublably carried cap & ball '51s. And I don't doubt that the engraved fancy ones at the "Autry"…
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Wanted:Dead Or Alive
When Bounty Hunters went after fugitives in the west, the posters that stated rewards for these fugitives: Were they posted as dead or alive for the general population of fugitives or just mostly for the most extreme of cases such as Billy The Kid,…
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Jim Holden commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Shooting from the back of a moving horse'
When "Bloody Bill Anderson" was killed on October 26, 1864, as he charged dismounted Union Cavalry, he was found to have had 8 loaded pistols available, either on his person or on his horse, giving him 48 shots he could fire without reloading. He wo…
October 16
George D Rodriguez commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Shooting from the back of a moving horse'
The difference between the Navy model and the Army model was one of caliber. All 36 calibers were considered Navy, all 44 calibers were considered Army. It didn't matter who the manufacture was.
October 16
Reb commented on James Bearde's blog post 'Shooting from the back of a moving horse'
I can't type for squat today... : (
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Wild Bill Hickok Revolvers

Where both of Bill Hickoks 1851 Colt Revolvers chambered for .36 cal Black Powder or where they chambered for .36 cal metallic cartridges?

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

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Wanted : Dead or Alive

When the bounty hunters of the west went after the fugitives whose vital info and cash rewards that were as posted, Were the Stamps on these wanted posters "Wanted : Dead or Alive" generally used for premoting the capture and dispatching of the general fugitive population or was it primarily used mostly for extreme cases such as those regarding the likes of Billy the Kid, John W. Hardin, Frank & Jesse James, Clay Allison ETC?
Or was it rarely stamped on these wanted posters at all?...

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 12:17am — 8 Comments

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Shooting from the back of a moving horse

Did cowboys actually shoot from the back of a moving horse in the Real old west like as in the hollywood westerns?
"If So" how could the horses stand all the noise made by the firearms without being spooked?
Did they have to actually get used to all that shooting noise?
How did they ever do all of that?..

Posted on October 15, 2009 at 11:26pm — 8 Comments

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Henry Firearms

Did Benjamin Henry Have a line of shotguns and sidearms or was it just the line of rifles & carbines that his company put out on the market?

Posted on October 15, 2009 at 11:18pm — 4 Comments

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The Art of the quick draw

Who developed these techniques of the Thumbing and the slap hammer techniques?..
were these techniques applied in various shootout incidents like the one at the ok corral and the incident in wounded knee?...were any of these ever recorded as to how they were used in actual historical gunfights in the west?...

Posted on September 21, 2009 at 7:50pm — 6 Comments

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