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Zitat von Rieslingrübe

-> Colt Single Action 45, Mod. 1873 *


...Fachliteratur..:

-> ´Triggernometry´ , Eugene Cunningham, 1941

...Ben Thompson ...

* Bekannt als ´Peacemaker´ und die bevorzugte Knarre vieler Gunslinger im alten Westen; auch der gefürchtete Ben Thompson vertraute diesem legendären Colt-Modell.

Da geht jetzt grad' meine Pistolero-Passion mit mir durch. Deshalb für alle ´Western-Fans´ hier mal ein ein kleiner Auszug aus dem Kapitel über Thompson in Cunninghams angesehenem Standardwerk:


" In the great Gallery of American Gunmen, there stand all sorts of man: Long-haired, buckskin-clad, frontiersmen walk arm in arm with booted and stetsoned Cowboys. Frock-coated, pallid and still-faced gamblers jostle others who are hardly to be distinguished from those ordinary citizens who walked the streets in their day.

In this last bracket fell that square-jawed, thickset Wizard of the Pistol; that black-haired, blue-eyed, typical Gunman of the great inky mustache - Ben Thompson. He was variously, printer, Confederate Soldier, professional gambler, peace officer, and a gunslinger second to none that Texas has ever produced.
Anything like a correct tabulation of Ben Thompson's killings is impossible to compile. For he was charged in some quarters with many murders that he, or his friends for him, vehemently denied; and like most gunmen of the '80s he doubtless committed several killings of which few but himself had knowledge, and of which he preferred not to talk..."


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