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Historically Speaking: The Long Branch Saloon

The Truth About Wild West Gunfights Shutterstock By Joseph A. Williams/Jan. 22, 2021 11:53 am EDT Shootouts in the Wild West are, in the popular imagination, full of stereotypes. Many movie-goers have seen Clint Eastwood as a lone drifter coming to mete out justice through the barrel of a gun or an all star team of gunslingers defending a village ravaged by bandits. The Wild West, and in particular its shootouts, are engraved into popular culture. But are these shootouts true? The violence of Wild West shootouts has many surprising historic kernels of truth. Where it differs ...

True West Magazine Dodge City   Frank Loving and Levi Richardson were friends, often gambling together in Dodge City’s Long Branch Saloon in 1879. But then a woman came between them and the relationship turned frosty. Violence threatened—and broke out on April 5. The two ran into each other that night at the Long Branch and both went for their guns. By the time the law interrupted the fight, Loving had emptied his pistol and Richardson had fired five times. Richardson dropped dead from a chest wound; Loving had a scratch on his hand and was released on self-defense. Post Views: