[Candor7]

Today, everyone would hit the floor , and tremble. But in those days we still were active in defending and living by the Constitution.

[TEXOKIE]

Pretty good story. I enjoyed hearing the speaker’s points. Thanks for posting it.

[driftless2]

Like what happened to the Daltons in Coffeyville also happened to the James-Younger gang in Northfield, Minnesota. Many movies have been made about the James-Younger gang and the shootout in Northfield, but I can't recall any flicks about the Daltons getting shot full of holes in Coffeyville. There's got to be a movie out there somewhere.

Another little thing that irks me are the countless westerns where the townspeople are depicted as meek lambs who cower whenever a gang of bad guys show up. The incidents at Northfield and Coffeyville make it sound like Hollyweird might have been serving up a lot of bs concerning timid townfolk and tough gunmen. I would think many residents of western towns were Civil War vets. Just going out west at that time would mark you as a person with a lot of spunk. I doubt many westerners were shaking in their boots when the bad guys rode into town. They probably did what the people of Coffeyville and Northfield did: shoot the bad guys full of holes.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks for posting that. I knew which event he was describing almost immediately, but he does a super job of putting it in historical context and comparing that to today.