What famous Old West characters lived long enough to be filmed?
Greg Travis
Farmington, New York
More than you might think. Movies portray the real-life showman Buffalo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer’s widow, Libbie, famed lawman Bill Tilghman, and bad guys Emmett Dalton, Al Jennings and Henry Starr (see movie stills on opposite page). Some of them produced their own flicks.
Tilghman was filming his biographical story, Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, in 1915 when he heard that H
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