| "Perhaps I may yet die with my boots on." --
Wild Bill
Hickok, who did die with his boots on.
“You may hear of a
killing if everything works right...but it may be some time yet.” --Texas
Ranger Ira Aten to Capt. L. P. Sieker in 1888.
After a horse thief had been arrested and
tried, he was found innocent by a jury. When they filed back into the
courtroom and the foreman stated the verdict, he liked the sound of
his voice so much, it took him over an hour of fancy talking to tell
the court that the defendant had been found innocent of all charges.
When he was finally done pontificating, the judge shook his head and
said: "You'll have to reconsider, the defendant was hung a couple of
hours ago."
"Well, if there aint'
going to be any rules, let's get the fight started." --
Butch Cassidy
"But you won't be here to see any of 'em; not
by a damn sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to
the nearest tree and hanged by the neck til you're dead, dead, dead, you
olive-colored son of a billy goat." --
Judge Roy Bean
"I think it was the distinguishing trait of
Wyatt Earp,
the leader of the Earp brothers, that more than any man I have ever known,
he was devoid of physical fear. He feared the opinion of no one but
himself and his self respect was his creed." --
W. B. "Bat"
Masterson, Tombstone
Prospector, August 16, 1910
"I'm not afraid. I
never liked long last acts."
--
Lillie Langtry
"Nothing to fear. Any coward shooting from
night ambush will be too nervous to hit me." -
Elijah S.
Briant,
Sutton County, Texas, when he was warned he
might be shot.
Kathy Weiser/Legends
of America, updated June, 2008 |
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