Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Billy Brooks For Western Wednesday...!

Often in the old west, it wasn't unusual to find an outlaw or gunfighter switching sides and becoming a lawman. However, Mr. Brooks got it backwards. Here is his story.

Billy Brooks



Gunfighters were a unique Western frontier product and a breed of their own—neither outlaw nor lawman but often either or both during their lifetime. This photo of Billy Brooks depicts a typical gunfighter of the 1870s, and he fit the mold: he was a lawman in Newton and Ellsworth, Kansas, a gunfighter in Dodge City—before any of those towns became “cowtowns”—and he died at the end of a rope in 1874 as a horse thief. This photo was probably taken circa 1872.

Guess moving from lawman to gunfighter to horse thief wasn't such a good career move. Brooks should have stopped while he was ahead!

Coffee back out on the patio, where the temps are going back to the 80s.

7 comments:

linda m said...

Guess he just couldn't get the "hang" (no pun intended) of being a bad guy. Hahaha Another record warm day for us here. We are having late April and early May temps. Farmers are worried their crops will come in too soon and then will freeze when it does snow again. And it will. Have a good one.

JO said...

There were a few of them guys out there. Of course there are a few these days too.

Hope you enjoyed your day off missed though.

HermitJim said...

Hey Linda...
Maybe being a good guy just didn't pay enough.
Thanks for stopping by this morning!

Dizzy-Dick said...

Some people are just never satisfied and have to have and do more and more.

HermitJim said...

Hey Jo...
Sometimes I fear there are more bad guys out there than good guys. I hope that I'm wrong.
Thanks for dropping in today, sweetie!


Hey Dizzy...
Some wouldn't be happy even if they were hung with a new rope!
Thanks, buddy, for the visit today!

Dizzy-Dick said...

If I ever get hung, I want them to use an old rotten rope and hopefully it would break before my neck did.

HermitJim said...

Hey Dizzy...
I hear ya on that!
Thanks again, my friend!