What is hanging around Keith Carradine’s neck in the June 2004 issue of True West?

Kent Martin Elkridge, Maryland Some suggest it’s a whiskey flask, while others say it’s a medicine pouch, but it’s a small knife in a scabbard. The shape of the scabbard is unmistakable. If it is supposed to be a defense weapon, a Derringer would have been more useful. The real Hickok would have had little use for a knife hanging around his neck outside his shirt. Everytime you bend over, it flops you on the kisser. But remember, this is Hollywood, the same outfit that used to give us bux