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The Long Branch Saloon gunfight, on April 5, 1879, was an altercation that took place between Frank Loving and Levi Richardson at the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas. Both men were gamblers who frequented the saloon .
The Gunfight at Dodge City is a 1959 American DeLuxe Color Western CinemaScope film. It was produced by the Mirisch Company, directed by Joseph M. Newman, co-written by Martin Goldsmith and Daniel B. Ullman and starred Joel McCrea as Bat Masterson. [1]
This is a list of Old West gunfights.Gunfights have left a lasting impression on American frontier history; many were retold and embellished by dime novels and magazines like Harper's Weekly during the late 19th and early 20th century.
The shootout was dubbed the Long Branch Saloon Gunfight. Although numerous gunfights took place in that saloon, this is the most well known. [citation needed] Following the gunfight, Loving left Mattie and his children to travel the country as a gambler. By 1880, he had traveled to Trinidad, Colorado.
The resurgence of tourist interest in Route 66 combined with the town's picture-perfect Old West facades has helped it remain something more than a ghost town, featuring gunfight reenactments ...
Short left Tombstone in early 1881, arriving in Dodge City in April 1881. He remained in Dodge City until the final months of 1883, although he made frequent trips to pursue gambling opportunities. In February 1883, Chalk Beeson sold his interest in the Long Branch Saloon to Short. [17] In March, Harris was nominated to run for mayor of Dodge City.
4. Tombstone, Arizona. Tombstone became a boomtown after a silver-mining strike in the late 1870s. It's most infamous for a shootout at the O.K. Corral, a gunfight that involved Wyatt Earp, Earp's ...
On June 1, 1883, Mather was hired as an Assistant City Marshal in Dodge City. [20] He served only nine months and was replaced on April 10, 1884, by Tom Nixon, [21] [22] sparking a feud between the two. The feud was further stoked when Dodge City passed "Ordinance No. 83", which outlawed dance halls. The ordinance was enforced against Mather's ...