The Westerns often had it wrong. They made gunfights so neat and clean, even with all the blood and bullet holes. Most cinematic gunfights went like this: bad guys hurt or kill a friend of the good guy. In a showdown with the bad guys, the good guy wins, gunning most or all of them down. The good guy then rides off into the figurative sunset, with the pretty girl by his side. Reality was different. Take the attempted holdup of the Farmers and Merchant Bank in Delta, Colorado, on September


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