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55 Burglary was rare … Roger D. McGrath, Gunfighters, Highwaymen and Vigilantes (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1984), 248, 249; Hollon, Frontier Violence, 203.
56 Frank Prassel, an … Prassel, Western Peace Officer, 20.
57 One of the great … Hollon, Frontier Violence, 165.
58 Moments before … Abilene Chronicle, January 5, 1871.
59 According to historian … McGrath, Gunfighters, 88, 184, 199, 255.
60 Nonetheless, the homicide rate … Ibid., 268; Hollon, Frontier Violence, 201; Prassel, Western Peace Officer, 47; Elliott West, “Wicked Dodge City,” American History Illustrated (June 1982): 23–31.
61 On March 19, 1872 … Missouri Republican, March 19, 1872, 2.
62 Buffalo Bill Cody was … Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May, Buffalo Bill and His Wild West (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1989), 163.
63 The first book … Peter Lyon, The Wild, Wild West (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1969), 119.
64 After Jesse James … Robert Sherrill, The Saturday Night Special (New York: Charterhouse, 1973), 39.
65 After Jesse was murdered … Ibid., 39.
66 The Gazette described … Lyon, The Wild, 92.
67 Belle was a … Ibid., 89.
68 Billy the Kid, far … Ibid., 123.
69 In a rare act … Hollon, Frontier Violence, 189.
70 He was discharged … Deborah Berrier, “Clay Allison: Never Killed a Man Willingly,” American History Illustrated (June 1982): 38–39.
71 Fabled gunfighter … Elliott West, “Wicked”; Ralph Brauer, The Horse, the Gun and the Piece of Property (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1975), 200.
72 Contrary to popular … Prassel, Western Peace Officer, 110.
73 In Leadville … Ibid., 47.
74 The real marshal … Elliott West, “Wicked,” 30.
75 In that mythic realm … Ibid., 27.
76 They were known … Lyon, The Wild, 15, 18, 21.
77 Morgan Earp, one … Ibid., 20.
78 A thief named … Ibid., 83.
79 The police officer … Brian McGinty, “John Wesley Hardin: Gentleman of Guns,” American History Illustrated (June 1982): 32–36.
80 In one notorious … McGrath, Gunfighters, 90–91.
81 “Lawmen and …” Prassel, Western Peace Officer, 248.
82 The Colt Peacemaker … A. C. Gould, Modern American Pistols and Revolvers (Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1894), 203. See also Wall Street Journal, June 24, 1993, 1.
83 On one journey … Glenda Riley, “The Specter of a Savage: Rumors and Alarmism on the Overland Trail,” Western History Quarterly 15:4 (October 1984): 427–44.
84 In Bodie … McGrath, Gunfighters, 192.
85 Clay Allison shot … Berrier, “Clay Allison,” 38.
86 Wild Bill Hickok … Hollon, Frontier Violence, 200.
87 On January 9, 1876 … Nyle H. Miller and Joseph W. Snell, Great Gunfighters of the Texas Cowtowns, 1867–1886 (Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska, 1963), 83–84.
88 When Pat Garret … Prassel, Western Peace Officer, 104.
89 Jesse James’s brother … Albert Castel, “The James Brothers,” American History Illustrated (June 1982): 10–18.
90 Bill Tilghman … Prassel, Western Peace Officer, 247.
91 A former train robber … Jack Lewis, The Gun Digest Book of Single-Action Revolvers (Northbrook, Ill.: DBI Books Inc, 1982), 201; Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation (New York: Atheneum, 1992), 236.
92 Cody’s fame was … Slotkin, Ibid., 72–73.
93 As if to dispel … Ibid., 68.
94 Sitting Bull, the … Ibid., 74; Rosa and May, Buffalo Bill, 83.
95 Richard Slotkin, author … Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation, 87.
96 The proliferation of … Ibid., 77.
97 In 1903 … Ibid., 231; John G. Cawelti, The Six-Gun Mystique (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971), 3.
98 By 1925, William Hart … Lewis, Gun Digest Book, 199, 212, 214.
99 Fourteen feature-length … Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation, 347.
100 The underlying message … Ibid., 396.
101 In 1959, the networks … Brauer, The Horse, 54.
102 In 1959, eight … Cawelti, Six-Gun, 2.
103 An advertisement … American Sales & Manufacturing advertisement, July 1993.
104 In the “Wyatt Earp” … Lewis, Gun Digest Book, 27-28.
105 In 1982, Colt … Ibid., 31.
106 In 1992, Colt introduced