And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
After he closed his wild west show, at least some of the band instruments were donated to the Cody, Wyoming schools. As a result, the tuba my mother played in high school had a bullet hole in the bell.
They did not always use shotshells, at least once Wild Bill Hickok shot out the lights in the theatre when he was tired of touring with his friend Cody.
I'm sure that can not be the only incident an ornery cowboy used live ammo.
70 yrs old, a year before he passed.
ReplyDeleteAfter he closed his wild west show, at least some of the band instruments were donated to the Cody, Wyoming schools. As a result, the tuba my mother played in high school had a bullet hole in the bell.
ReplyDeleteI think they used shotshells
DeleteVery cool, and totally possible.
DeleteThey did not always use shotshells, at least once Wild Bill Hickok shot out the lights in the theatre when he was tired of touring with his friend Cody.
I'm sure that can not be the only incident an ornery cowboy used live ammo.