triggerfingeritis

Updated: May 20, 2025

Peace to his ashes, and repose to his dauntless spirit! Triggerfingeritis is an acute irritation of the sensory nerves of the index finger of habitual gun-packers; usually fatal to some one. This is the story of a man, a virile, strong, resourceful man, all of whose history from his youth to his untimely death thrills one at the reading and points lessons worth learning.

Edgar Beecher Bronson - The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

Then El Paso settled down to the humdrum but profitable task of laying the foundations for the great metropolis of the Farther Southwest. Since then, an occasional sporadic case of triggerfingeritis has developed in El Paso, usually in an acute form; but never once since the night Stoudenmayer turned the El Paso Street Portals into a shambles has it threatened as an epidemic.

Edgar Beecher Bronson - The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier