Gunfighter Marksmanship

Not all shootists were expert marksmen. In Dodge City, one night in 1880, a bunch of Texas drovers tangled in Sherman's Saloon. Hundreds of shots were fired and the only casualty was a stray cat. An 1884 gun battle in Frisco, New Mexico, lasted thirty-three hours, in Frisco, New Mexico; some eighty angry Texans reputedly fired 4,000 shots into a jacale where a young self-appointed deputy named Elfego Baca was holed up. They'd been hurrahing the Hispanic citizens of the town when Baca had the tem