Billy Dixon's Long Shot

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Latest article about the 2nd battle of Adobe Walls, from True West Magazine

https://truewestmagazine.com/article/a-long-shot-buffalo-hunters-vs-quanah-parkers-warrior/



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On the third day, 15 Indian warriors ride out on a bluff nearly a mile away to survey the situation. At the behest of one of the hunters, William "Billy" Dixon, a crack shot, takes aim with a borrowed .50-90 "Big Fifty" Sharps rifle. After calculating the drop and the wind factor, he fires and cleanly drops a warrior from atop his horse. Dixon later says, "I was admittedly a good marksman, yet this was what might be called a 'scratch' shot."
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Well, I think we know where this scene came from.

CanyonAg77
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McMurty based all the Lonesome Dove story on true accounts of the Panhandle and the Red River Wars. "Gus" was Oliver Loving, "Captain Call" was Charles Goodnight.
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