GUNS Magazine January 1956

Movie star Jack Palance 111 "SlIaile" typified cold violence
of gunmen but most cowboys were inaccurate shooters.
the cowboys-they were the ones who usually got shot!
It was the professional gunslingers who spent their time
learning to draw fast and shoot straight while the honest
cowpoke was busy branding, driving up the drags, repair-
ing fence, or busting steers out of the brush.
"If there was a gunfight in town in which someone was
badly hurt or killed, you could almost bet there was a pro-
fessional gunman involved, a lawman, gambler, or one
of the outlaws who found safety on the frontier."
Equally positive on this score was Jim Shaw, who came
up the Texas trail in '79, and became so successful that he
was later elected president of the Wyoming Stock Growers
Association. "I've been in every cowtown on the Chisholm,
Dodge, and Northern Trails, punched cows with some of
Best gunmen in Wild West, were usually sheriffs. Typical of good gunfighters were Wyatt Earp (left) and John Slaughter
(center), who brought law to Tombstone in its bloody days, and Pat Garrett, who shot Billy the Kid ending manhunt.
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