“Why, those yahoos could kill half the decent citizens of Abilene in the time it would take us to derive our pleasure, Alice. “Couldn’t it wait just a little until you and me finished our business, honey?” “I’ll have to go down and tame them before they kill some innocent.” “It’s a bunch of knothead cowboys shooting off their pistols,” Bill said. Bill was her favorite customer, and she only charged him half the going rate because he was the most famous man in all of Kansas, and because he was handsome as a racehorse, and because he was the city marshal. One of the thorns pricked her lip, and a drop of blood bright red as a ruby formed upon the small sweet mouth Bill had intended on kissing.īill went to the window and looked down onto Main Street, his bare hams pale in the glow of a dozen candles Alice had lighted to set the mood. “Lord God almighty,” said Squirrel Tooth Alice, who was lying on the bed with a rose between her teeth. Wild Bill was down to just his socks when the commotion started. Some…Ĭharley went to pick up his and Bill’s mail the… Jeff Carr got himself plenty drunk after the funeral. Jeff Carr thought what a cruel joke it was that… They drank until the dice quit rolling, until the roulette…īill was picking out Charley a horse among a corral… The bullet whistled through the twilight and struck Charley’s horse… Teddy was in the courtroom when the deputies brought William… Teddy was having coffee alone with his thoughts there in…
Two days of domesticity and Charley was feeling as restless… Teddy found Hickok easily enough-he was sitting at a table… Nearly two months had expired since Paris Bass had left… Temptation comes in its many forms, and Bill wasn’t sure…Ī cardinal, its blaze of red feathers, stood perched on…īill awoke with his eyes aching him fiercely. Paris Bass arrived in Abilene on such a blustery day…Ĭharley shook Bill by the boots until his eyes popped… Teddy watched the dove take half a dozen more miners…Ĭharley rejoined Bill, said, “That young lady knows how to… Teddy paused briefly before heading toward town. He found her there in the kitchen, the morning light… “I am the woman who loved Phil Coe,” she said. She had…Ĭheyenne seemed like a cruel place flung up at the… It was near evening and snowing when the train pulled…īill went to see the fortune-teller, Madam Moustache. It had risen from the ashes of a terrible fire…Ĭolorado Charley Utter felt fateful the day he met Wild… With a worried hand she wrote the letter: His name was Teddy Blue and he was cut from… Wild Bill was down to just his socks when the…
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