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A Deadly Card Game

by | Jan 29, 2018 | True West Blog

Ben Thorn True West Magazine
Long Haired Sam Brown led a gang in California’s Calaveras County in the 1850s.  He was dealing cards in 1855 when a Chilean miner grabbed someone else’s money.  Guns and knives were pulled; three Chileans ended up dead, and Brown and a pal hightailed it out.  Respected Sheriff Ben K. Thorn (photo) and a posse surrounded the cabin where the outlaws were entrenched—then the lawman put his gun down,


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