Standing in front of the gallows at Fort Smith National Historic Site, I’m overcome by history.
Just up those steps, the Dalton brothers became “just a little bit dead” after they were “hung.”
I know that because that’s what John Wayne tells Michael Anderson Jr. in The Sons of Katie Elder. Maybe that’s my problem. I get too much history from movies.
Perhaps the Duke was wrong, and the Daltons weren’t hanged. After all, Randolph Scott watched the brothers shot to pieces in
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