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Updated: June 19, 2025
There was a surge forward of some of the miners, and an inarticulate cry of pity and of anger; but a couple of the strangers emptied their six-shooters over the heads of the crowd, and they broke and scattered, some of them rushing wildly back to their homes in Vermissa.
We ain't ridin' up and down the trail, flourishin' our six-shooters and yellin' to the Sawtooth to come on and we'll clean 'em up!" "But you're fighting just the same, aren't you, dad? You're not letting them " "We're makin' out to live here and we've been doin' it for twenty-five year," Brit told her, with a certain grim dignity. "We've still got a few head uh stock left enough to live on.
Rand furnished them, and Ritter noted them down. The waitress wandered back to see if they wanted anything else; she gave a small squeak of surprise when she saw the two big six-shooters on the table. Rand and Ritter repeated their orders, and when she brought back the drinks, the Colt and the Leech & Rigdon were out of sight.
He 'd run right over stones and cactus and prairie dog holes and everything else in his way. And them fool people at Separ was all huddled up in the depot, and a company of men with Winchesters and six-shooters was there from Deming, and everybody was watchin' the country all 'round with spyglasses, for Injuns!
"Billy he's all straight. He doesn't know nothin' about me." He collected the six-shooters from the floor. "I jest takes these with me for a spell," he continued. "You'll find them, if you look hard enough, along on th' trail also yore broncs." He backed toward the door. "I'm layin' fer th' man that sticks his head out that door," he warned. "Stranger," said Black Hank as he neared the door.
The law against carrying arms while in the settlements was then just beginning to be enforced; and, although it was recognized as necessary for men to go armed while journeying across those wild and little settled plains, the danger of allowing six-shooters and whiskey to operate at the same time was generally recognized as well.
Knives or six-shooters implied a certain premeditation which was discountenanced. On the other hand, the code of fair fighting obtained hardly at all. The long spikes of river-boots made an admirable weapon in the straight kick. I have seen men whose faces were punctured as thickly as though by small-pox, where the steel points had penetrated.
Painting up large notices of 'Watch Us Grow, making money by farming with machinery, together with an occasional hold-up with six-shooters and photographs of a beautiful murderess or divorcée, fill up the round of their good and happy lives, and fleet the time carelessly as in the golden age.
Pete gazed at the familiar shelves, boxes and barrels, the new saddles and rigs, and in fact at everything in the store save the showcase which contained the cheap watches, trinkets, and six-shooters. "I got a couple o' skins here," he said presently. "Mebby you could buy 'em." "Let's see 'em, Pete." Pete unfolded the stiff skins on the counter. "Why, I'll give you two dollars for the lot.
Ware selected another target one intended for the six-shooters that had not been used. This he tacked up in place of the one already disfigured by many shots. Then he paced off twelve yards. "That looks easier than the other," Thorne commented. "Mebbe," agreed Ware, non-committally, "but you may change your mind.
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