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...By any chance, did he live and die in Texas?
Posted by: Wes S. | April 27, 2009 at 03:10 PM
Died young. Might anyone know why?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | April 27, 2009 at 03:14 PM
Indeed, he was a whimsical young scamp! I cut the following from his entry in the Wikipedia:
In the Fall of 1870, a man named Charles Kennedy was being held in the local jail in Elizabethtown, suspected of robbery and murder. Allison and other men broke into the jail, pulled Kennedy from his cell, tied a rope around his neck and dragged him behind a horse down the main street until he was dead. Allison then cut off the man's head and carried it in a sack 29 miles to Cimarron, New Mexico, where he demanded it be placed on display in front of the Lambert Inn.
Posted by: Elmo | April 27, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Well, that seems a little extreme.
I guess this Allison guy was pretty pissed.
Posted by: Telecomdropout | April 27, 2009 at 03:24 PM
Now you will have Dave singing the theme song from Bat Masterson all day.
"Back when the West was very young
There lived a man named Masterson
He wore a cane and derby hat
They called him Bat, Bat Masterson."
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | April 27, 2009 at 03:28 PM
Pissed? Nope, he was having a good day and was in an extra pleasant humor because he had just sold some green lumber to an elderly widow.....
Posted by: e | April 27, 2009 at 03:46 PM
He lies Jack Bauer
He never shot a thigh
That didn't need shooting.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | April 27, 2009 at 04:03 PM
I like
Posted by: Siouxie | April 27, 2009 at 04:33 PM
I wonder what's on the tombstone of the guy who killed Allison?
Posted by: Lairbo | April 27, 2009 at 04:34 PM
HERE LIES MARTINI SHARK - HE NEVER KILLED A BOTTLE OF VODKA THAT WAS NOT ASKING FOR IT
Posted by: MartiniShark | April 27, 2009 at 05:00 PM
Lairbo, Allison reportedly died in a wagon accident.
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | April 27, 2009 at 05:06 PM
>>... where he demanded it be placed on display in front of the Lambert Inn.<<
I'll bet that did wonders for bookings.
Posted by: Clankazoid | April 27, 2009 at 05:17 PM
But The Shootist got on so well with Betty Bacall, Ron Howard, and Jimmy Stewart.
Like fellow Tennessean Nathan Bedford Forrest, Allison was one of the early members of those fun-loving, good ol' boys of the Ku Klux Klan.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | April 27, 2009 at 05:41 PM
Gee, the guy was my age. Makes one ponder their own AAAFFFFGGGHHHHHHHHH.............*thud*
Posted by: Punkin | April 27, 2009 at 09:02 PM
Apparently, anger management wasn't an option then.
Also, xanax.
Posted by: Account Deleted | April 27, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Mister Language Person, shouldn't that be who did not need killing?
(or in some parts, who did not need kilt)
Posted by: oneblankspace | April 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM