Here is the Northfield Minnesota Raid by the James Younger gang as depicted in the Long Riders.
No HIgh Noon bullshit. All of those square heads just got a gat and started blasting. Many of them were Union veterans of the Civil Way and were not going to cower in fear of a bunch of thieves.
I wonder what would happen today? Would the read them their rights? Search out the root causes of their criminal behavior? Have empathy?
Where have you gone Wyatt Earp, a loney nation turns it eyes to you?
Saturday, June 6, 2009
This is how it really happend!
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This is how it really happened?
And this how it really ended up for another fraternal bunch, the Dalton boys.
I went looking for that photo, misremembering that it was of the Daltons, not the Youngers (I once had a book with stories and photos of both gangs).
Glad you're back!
Walter Hill made it as close to the historical record as possible.
You should check out the moive. It has the flavor of the West as I thought it really was.
And you can feel the resemblance to "Deadwood" since Walter Hill directed the first few episodes especially the ones with Keith Carridine as Wild Bill.
And thanks, it's great to be back.
I'll tell you what sucks, dude. Nick Swisher sucks. Really
Only at the stadium.
Sometimes a good backup guy gets exposed when he gets too many at bats. We expected to have Nady to adsorb a lot more plate appearances and they wanted Swisher as a fill in for left/right and 1st base.
Actually, he sucked in May. In june he blows. But damn, he carried the boys in April.
I just want to say I can't correct the spelling without losing the video.
So it's Lonely eyes not Loney.
I thought you meant to spell it as "looney" which also makes sense in our current weird political environment.
I love that movie. It's so...American. The soundtrack is excellent.
Ah, Walter Hill. Another guy, like, Carpenter who I think would prefer just to make Westerns.
Interesting clip. Gotta see the movie now.
One problem. Doesn't anybody reload?
They're all blasting away like the bullets are the ones my 14-year-old uses in "Call of Duty" on the X-Box or whatever.
As someone with a fair bit of experience with black powder weapons, I can tell you that reloading a cap-and-ball revolver isn't anything you'd want to do on either a horse or in the middle of a gunfight.
Maybe you could pull out a loaded spare cylinder to save time, and hope it fit the revolver frame well enough to keep bits of lead from being skived off into your right hand, because some chambers don't quite line up with the barrel.
Certainly there were plenty of fixed-ammunition weapons, but they all would have used black powder, and, believe me, black powder lever-action Henrys and Winchesters do not so easily blast away without failure. Black-powder repeating weapons foul and jam at an alarming rate. There was a reason for all those muzzle-loading, single-shot muskets in the 17th and 18th centuries. Inaccurate and slow as they were: They tended to work.
Well, that's my gun-nut comment for the evening. And if someone can tell me where to get good 45/70 rimfire cartridges, I'd be very grateful
Who was it who said: "We had a great court here until the pettifoggin' lawyers showed up"?
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