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Special Classic Gunfights: Shoot-out at Stinking Springs

by | Mar 30, 2020 | Features & Gunfights

December 23, 1880 Riding at midnight through deep snow, Sheriff-elect Pat Garrett leads a 13-man posse eastward out of Fort Sumner, New Mexico. After questioning several people in Fort Sumner and ascertaining the Kid’s dress (“especially his hat,” which is said to be a Mexican sugarloaf with a green hatband), Garrett de


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