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The archetypal Old West gunfight was largely the product of pulp fiction writers\u2019 vivid imaginations. However, there were a few frontier shootings and a few frontier shootists that were legitimately larger than life. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The US\/Mexican border in\n1881 was a raucous place. Civilization was but a thin veneer across this\notherwise lawless landscape. Theft, graft, and murder were commonplace, and\nfrontier justice came from the barrel of a gun. On April 14th<\/sup>, a\ntruly epic gunfight played out in El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nArt of the Gunslinger<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Many of the most famous Old West characters were deeply flawed and tormented souls. Life in that place at that time was frequently both brutish and short. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The term gunslinger is a fairly\nmodern contrivance. I\u2019m told that men who lived by their guns were most\ncommonly called shootists if anything. While most of the big names were either\ndrunks, petty thieves, psychopaths, or some toxic combination, a precious few\nwere actually truly good at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modern Tier 1 operators like these Army CAG shooters are phenomenal gunfighters. However, these skills stem from literally countless iterations behind their weapons. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m no great shakes\nmyself, but I have had the privilege of working alongside some of the finest\nshooters in the world. SEALs and CAG guys are legendarily competent. Speed\nshooter Jerry Miculek is a freak of nature. However, professional gunmen in the\nmodern era typically do what they do because of countless hours of concentrated\ntrigger time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jerry Miculek is a legendary speed shooter. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some folks, however, like\nJerry and an 1881-era Marshal named Dallas Stoudenmire, just have the gift. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Setting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This whole sordid tale began when a group of American cattle rustlers stole thirty head of cows from Mexican vaqueros just South of the border. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 1881 an American rancher named Johnny Hale arrived in El Paso with thirty stolen cows from northern Mexico. A pair of Mexican vaqueros named Juaregui and Sanchez gave chase into the Southern United States but never returned. In response, a mob of heavily-armed Mexican cowboys rode into town on April 14, with vengeance on their minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In South Texas in 1881 the men were hard and everybody was armed. Trouble was easy to find. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Constable Gus Krempkau\nspoke fluent Spanish and accompanied the men out to the Hale ranch. Enroute they\ndiscovered the cooling corpses of Sanchez and Juaregui. A pair of local cowboys\npurportedly named Peveler and Stevenson were overheard bragging about the\nmurders and were arrested. The ranch owner Johnny Hale was presumed to have\nbeen complicit throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the two killers were remanded into custody by all accounts the Mexican cowboys took the bodies of their two comrades and returned home peacefully. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was an inquest wherein Constable Krempkau served as an interpreter for the aggrieved Mexicans. The two American cattle rustlers were subsequently remanded into custody for formal trial at a later date. Their thirst for justice slated, the Mexican posse returned home with the bodies of their deceased friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shootist<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Dallas Stoudenmire is shown here in the center along with Deputy Marshals Neal Nuland and Walt Jones. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dallas Stoudenmire had\nbeen sworn in as town Marshal a mere three days prior. He was the sixth El Paso\ntown Marshal in eight months. A native of Alabama and one of nine children,\nStoudenmire lied about his age and enlisted in the Confederate Army at age fifteen.\nDespite being more than six feet tall his commanders discovered his true age\nand discharged him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dallas Stoudenmire saw heavy combat with the 45th<\/sup> Alabama Infantry during the American Civil War. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stoudenmire reenlisted\ntwice more and ended the war an adult standing six foot four. He was a\nnotoriously hard man who carried a pair of Union bullets in his body until the\nday he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By all accounts, Dallas Stoudenmire rendered superlative service during his time with the Texas Rangers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stoudenmire spent three\nyears as a Texas Ranger. By 1881 he was an experienced lawman with a deadly\nreputation. Though he was known to be a gentleman around the ladies, he was an\ninveterate brute when drunk. He carried a pair of revolvers and was rumored to\nbe comparably facile with either hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shootout<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The toxic combination of alcohol and testosterone claimed many a life on the American Western frontier. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The day after the inquest, Constable Krempkau entered a local El Paso saloon to retrieve his rifle and pistol. Inside the rustler, Johnny Hale was unarmed, intoxicated, and despondent. An armed friend of Hale\u2019s named George Campbell made a disparaging comment about Krempkau\u2019s performance as an interpreter at the hearing the previous day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stoudenmire left the Globe restaurant at a trot, guns ablazing. His first casualty was an innocent Mexican. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Johnny Hale then snatched\nup one of Campbell\u2019s two handguns and shot Krempkau. Marshal Stoudenmire was\neating at the Globe restaurant across the street and rose to investigate. He came\nout shooting and killed an innocent Mexican bystander named Ochoa in short\norder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Four
We have a stylized mental image of the nature of Old West gunfights. The reality was a frenetic, bloody, pitiless, chaotic thing. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Johnny Hale took cover\nbehind a thick adobe pillar. Stoudenmire spotted him peering around the edge\nand shot him in the face. Campbell, for his part, wanted nothing to do with\nthese proceedings and shouted his innocence to Stoudenmire. Krempkau, now\nrapidly bleeding out, mistakenly thought Campbell had been the one to initially\nattack him and shot Campbell twice before losing consciousness. One round\nstruck Campbell\u2019s handgun and broke the man\u2019s wrist. The other round passed\nthrough Campbell\u2019s foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dallas Stoudenmire was moving and shooting as he engaged targets of opportunity with his brace of .44 revolvers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Campbell shrieked in pain\nand reached for his dropped gun with his uninjured left hand. Stoudenmire\nwhirled reflexively, saw the man go for his gun, and shot Campbell through the\nbelly. Now hit three times, Campbell shouted, \u201cYou big SOB! You\u2019ve murdered me!\u201d\nBoth Campbell and Krempkau bled out within minutes. Witnesses attested that the\nentire exchange took some five seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is what El Paso looked like at the time of the shooting. Note the power lines. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stoudenmire purportedly\nstood over the cooling corpses with his guns smoking. There were three Texas\nRangers nearby. When queried later as to why they had not intervened they\nanswered that they felt that Marshal Stoudenmire had things well in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stoudenmire\u2019s Weapons<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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We presume that all Old West gunslingers carried Colt Peacemakers. In reality, there was a wide variety of guns used on the American frontier. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If Hollywood is to be believed then every cowboy packed an 1873 Colt Peacemaker on his belt and a lever-action Winchester on his saddle. In reality, there were scads of other popular firearms in circulation during these turbulent times. The shootist, Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire carried at least one Smith and Wesson Model 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The top-break Smith and Wesson Model 3 was a heavy but effective defensive handgun. The tip open design could be activated one-handed if needed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The S&W Model 3 was a\ntop-break, single-action, cartridge-firing revolver produced between 1870 and\n1915. The Model 3 saw widespread military use around the globe. The Russian\nTsarist Empire ordered thousands of the guns but reverse engineered the design\nfor production in their domestic arsenals. These copies were generally of high\nquality yet sold markedly cheaper than the S&W originals. The resulting\nmarket saturation nearly put Smith and Wesson out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Major, later LTC, George Schofield upgraded the design. Those are some truly epic whiskers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These guns were eventually\nproduced in a wide variety of calibers, but most of the early sort were\nchambered in either .44 S&W American or .44 Russian. An upgraded version of\nthe Model 3 became known as the \u201cSchofield\u201d after Major George Schofield who\nrevamped the gun for cavalry use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The top-break design made the S&W Model 3 fast in action. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Though not so elegant as the Colt Peacemaker, the Model 3 benefitted from its top-break design. The single action trigger was smooth and accurate, but the rapidity of reloading was its strongest suit. With practice, the Model 3 could produce an impressive volume of sustained fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teddy Roosevelt was a proponent of the S&W Model 3. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jesse James and his killer\nBob Ford, Teddy Roosevelt, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, John Wesley Hardin,\nAnnie Oakley, and Virgil Earp used Model 3 revolvers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Wells Fargo Company repurposed large numbers of military surplus S&W Model 3 revolvers to defend their agents operating in the wilderness. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Wells Fargo Company\nbought up hundreds of government-surplus Schofields, shortened their seven-inch\nbarrels to five, and issued them widely to their road agents. LTC Schofield\nsuffered badly from depression and shot himself to death with a Schofield\nrevolver in 1882.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rest of the Story<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Dallas Stoudenmire was an intimidating personality even without his guns. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dallas Stoudenmire was terrifying up close, particularly when drunk. In his first week as El Paso town Marshal he killed six men, one of them accidentally. By the following February, he had killed another six in the performance of his official duties. His larger-than-life reputation made him an exceptionally effective frontier lawman. However, it also made him a great many enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Four
Bill Johnson wielded a side-by-side short-barreled 12 gauge during his ill-fated effort to kill the gunfighter, Dallas Stoudenmire. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Three days after his introductory El Paso bloodbath a friend of Johnny Hale\u2019s convinced a local Deputy Marshal named Bill Johnson to assassinate Stoudenmire. Johnson got himself liquored up in anticipation and took up a double-barreled twelve bore. When the time came to do the deed, Johnson lost his balance in his drunken stupor and fell backward, discharging his shotgun into the air above Stoudenmire\u2019s head. Stoudenmire responded reflexively, drew both his heavy pistols, and shot Johnson eight times, blowing off his testicles in the process. Johnson bled to death on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Four
Word of Dallas Stoudenmire having castrated Bill Johnson with his Smith and Wesson .44 revolver cemented his reputation as a man with whom one should not trifle. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shooting Bill Johnson\u2019s balls off further enhanced the Stoudenmire legend, and he eventually found himself wearing a federal Marshal\u2019s star. Throughout it all, a pair of brothers named James and Felix \u201cDoc\u201d Manning looked for an opportunity to exact revenge for friends who had fallen to Stoudenmire\u2019s guns. This feud smoldered on until one fateful day in September of 1882.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guys like these did not suffer insults lightly. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stoudenmire and Doc met in\na local saloon ostensibly to iron out their protracted differences. Doc\u2019s\nbrother James, believing peace had been achieved, had already departed.\nHowever, tensions heated up between Doc and Dallas until somebody drew a\nweapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite their heft and bulk, handguns of the Old West were not nearly so powerful as they are today. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Doc\u2019s first round hit Stoudenmire in the arm. The second struck him in the chest. However, handgun cartridges were not as powerful then as now and this bullet was neutralized by a heavy stack of papers folded in his breast pocket. Regardless, the force of this shot did knock Stoudenmire backward through the door of the saloon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the gun and badge used by Dallas Stoudenmire. The document is the original warrant for the arrest of Felix \u201cDoc\u201d Manning. These three items last sold at auction for $142,000, $44,000, and $3,025 respectively. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stoudenmire then shot Doc\nManning in the arm. Amidst all this chaos Doc\u2019s brother James returned with his\nown weapon and fired twice. One round lodged in a nearby barber pole. His\nsecond caught Stoudenmire behind the left ear, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dallas Stoudenmire was buried as a Confederate soldier in Texas. He was 36 years old when he died. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dallas Stoudenmire is\nburied in the Alleyton Cemetery in Colorado County, Texas. Both Manning\nbrothers were tried for his murder, but they were popular figures thereabouts.\nA jury of their peers acquitted them both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was conflicting information concerning Dallas Stoudenmire\u2019s guns. All the references I found said they were .44\u2019s. One article claimed this stubby cut-down Colt was his second pistol, others asserted that he packed a pair of matching Smiths. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It took a hard man to thrive in the American Old West. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The following year their\nthird brother Frank Manning was appointed town Marshal himself after the\nsitting lawman was killed investigating a disagreement at a local brothel.\nFrank was fired in short order for failing to arrest his criminal friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The top-break Smith and Wesson Model 3 could be broken open for reloading one-handed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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