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Did cowboys really make tenderfeet “dance” by firing their pistols at their feet as is often shown in old Westerns?

by | Jul 1, 2004 | Inside History

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Did cowboys really make tenderfeet “dance” by firing their pistols at their feet as is often shown in old Westerns? Bill Ramsey Kansas City, Missouri A 20-year-old hellion, Martha Jane Canary, a.k.a. Calamity Jane, supposedly made cowboy crooner Darling Bob Mackay dance like a tenderfoot in a Dodge City, Kansas, saloon. It seems Mackay had the temerity to say something indelicate about her underwear. Marshall Trimble is Arizona’s official historian. His books include The Arizona Trilogy a


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