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   From: russell-watson@att.net   
      
   On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:39:44 GMT, "Linda Terrell"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >> > The last "classic" gunfight in America took place   
   >> > in Kissimmee, Florida in 1926.   
   >> >   
   >> > Florida was still "wild western" up until 30 years   
   >> > ago and parts of it still are.   
   >> >   
   >> > LT   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >>   I always thought florida was just a state for northern retirees,   
   >> please, tell me about this "classic" gunfight in Kissimmee in 1926.   
   >> Blue   
   >> >   
   >Florida was more West than the West, and did it first   
   >cattle country before and during Civil War  Was   
   >feeding the Confederacy at one point   
      
   The home of the chief commisary officer for the Confederate army is a   
   historic site just two blocks from my house here my little home town   
   20 miles west of Tallahassee. Tallahassee was the only capitol of a   
   Confederate State that never fell to the Yankees, largely because they   
   considered it frontier outpost not worth the trouble. They made two   
   token attempts on it, one by marching overland from the east, which wa   
   stopped at the Battle of Olustee (noteworthy because it was the first   
   engagement in which Rebs fought Negro Federal soldiers) and up the St.   
   Marks River, which was halted south of Tallahassee at the Battle of   
   Natural Bridge. Florida had ranching, farming, Indian wars and all the   
   other stuff associated with "the West" before "the West" was opened up   
   to anyone except the mountain men. The county I live in is named after   
   a man who was an adjutant to Andrew Jackson in the Indian wars, in   
   which one David Crockett served as a scout. As I recall, that   
   particular fellow  met his end somewhere in Texas in 1836...   
      
   >   
   >They ran cattle like the Australians -- with whips and   
   >dogs.  My husband did a bit of it when he was a kid   
   >   
   >The gunfight in Kissimmee was just that -- two men   
   >walking down the street toward each other and drawing and shooting.   
   >I'll have to ask my husband, but IIRC they managed to totally   
   >miss each other 'cause they was so drunk.   
   >   
   >LT   
      
      
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