The Great Guthrie Gunfight
Six-shooters in Four Sixes Country
By Mike Cox
For a gunfight to be burned onto the rawhide of Old West lore, it is requisite that one or more participants end up in Boot Hill.
That explains why the wild shootout that interrupted the quietude of Guthrie one day in 1905 rates only nine paragraphs in a 465-page book on the history of King County, Texas. (King County Historical Society, King …
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