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Every time I drive through there... (reply)

Creeker — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 02:13:04 +0000

Been through there a couple times myself.

THE FIGHTING BUNCH (reply)

Catoosa — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:32:55 +0000

Just a few miles up the road from where I grew up. My uncle Jack knew some of those fellows.

Politics sometimes gets serious in East Tennessee!

the Jungian thing...or whatever. (reply)

Miles — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:56:50 +0000

1 My last living Uncle lives in Coffeyville. Nice town.
2 One of yesterday's episodes of 'Tales of Wells Fargo' was about Agent Hardie and the Coffeyville shootout

I've always wonder what the deal was in the pictures of the dead that their boots had been removed and either their pant legs cut or pulled up.

Every time I drive through there... (reply)

Paul — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:30:20 +0000

I think about that incident. Coffeyville, KS is STILL a quiet little backwater town in SE Kansas. It's right on the way to various places we visit while up north so we get through there relatively frequently. I don't know how much gumption the current residents have, but judging by the area in general I'd not want to "try that in a small town" like Coffeyville.

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A K Church — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:02:14 +0000

My father was one. We had a pretty bad relationship, but that is a thing about him I cannot help but admire.

In his case it was the Democratic machine out of Fort Smith AR.

A Great Read, thanks Jim....NT (reply)

Creeker — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:46:32 +0000

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JimT — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:29:37 +0000

The true story of the WWII vets who fought one last battle — in their own hometown — for the right to vote ... When a corrupt political machine denied them their right to vote, these World War II veterans took the battlefield one last time, winning the only successful armed rebellion since the American Revolution.

https://taskandpurpose.com/history/the-fighting-bunch-book-excerpt/

The Armed Citizen

Creeker — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:32:50 +0000

On October 5, 1892 Coffeyville, Kansas became a very unfriendly place for the Dalton Gang. These guys were a murderous bunch. They robbed & killed anyone who got in the way. They decided to rob 2 banks in Coffeyville but while inside the banks the residents of Coffeyville gathered their guns & challenged the outlaws with gun fire. When the shooting was done all the Dalton Gang were dead except for Emmett Dalton who survived 23 gunshot wounds. Four of the townspeople were also killed.

Law Enforcement tried to stop these guys over the years but in the end it was the "armed citizen" that prevailed over evil.