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Richard Hart's real name: A good old-fashioned American mystery
Omaha World Herald ^

Posted on 03/26/2017 5:49:14 PM PDT by Mean Daddy

He entered the Chicago courtroom on Sept. 21, 1951, wearing his signature white 10-gallon hat, looking like a cowboy from another time, which he was, and also was not.

Ever since anybody could remember, the man in the white hat had been an outsized character in his corner of northeast Nebraska, a lawman whose real-life story seemed ripped from the yellowed script of an old Hollywood Western.

He had busted bootleggers during Prohibition, gotten into gunfights with killers, and saddled up his prized horse, Buckskin Betty, and tracked thieves and fraudsters across the vast prairies of the half-tamed Great Plains.

He had forged friendships with the Omaha and Winnebago Tribes. He had made powerful enemies. He had met and protected the president of the United States.

He had shot well, punched first, posed for countless newsmen, strummed the mandolin and said precious little. He refused to talk about where he had come from, how he appeared one day in tiny Homer, Nebraska, why his own wife had never met a single relative of his.

(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...


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Excellent and surprising article. Read the article to find out who Two Gun Hart was related too.
1 posted on 03/26/2017 5:49:14 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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2 posted on 03/26/2017 5:52:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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hey thanks. great story


3 posted on 03/26/2017 6:05:09 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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Must have a subscription to read


4 posted on 03/26/2017 6:07:20 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
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I just read it for free. Maybe it is one of those 10 stories free a month papers.


5 posted on 03/26/2017 6:11:57 PM PDT by PAR35
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That was one interesting story. Makes one wonder if the Clint Eastwood movie Bronco Billy was based on it.
6 posted on 03/26/2017 6:13:54 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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I am on cell Maybe that’s the problem.
Going straight to chase. Who is his relative ?


7 posted on 03/26/2017 6:14:04 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
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Buckskin Betty.

I think I dated her a few times.


8 posted on 03/26/2017 6:20:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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Brother of Al Capone.


9 posted on 03/26/2017 6:24:05 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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Fascinating. Thank you for posting the link.


10 posted on 03/26/2017 6:26:14 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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Thank you


11 posted on 03/26/2017 6:28:25 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
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Al Capone.

Makes sense. Both were intelligent, talented men.

12 posted on 03/26/2017 6:28:33 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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It also make sense why he hid the relationship !


13 posted on 03/26/2017 6:29:57 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
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That was well done - thanks for posting!


14 posted on 03/26/2017 6:31:01 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Scarface Al Capone was his brother.


15 posted on 03/26/2017 6:40:00 PM PDT by PAR35
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By the way - sorry for the slow response. I was watching a tornado track that was headed this way about 15 minuets ago, but now it has curved away, and looks like it will miss us by 10 or 15 miles if it doesn’t dissipate. (Small one that’s been popping up and down, not one of those big ones).


16 posted on 03/26/2017 6:44:12 PM PDT by PAR35
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So the analogy would be Clark’s lost brother is Jesse Jackson?


17 posted on 03/26/2017 6:50:48 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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Nice read, thanks! Sometime someone should tell of Elmer Keith...


18 posted on 03/26/2017 6:58:05 PM PDT by W. (Bock, bock, bock!)
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Read it for free.


19 posted on 03/26/2017 6:58:41 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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Oh my! Stay safe!


20 posted on 03/26/2017 6:59:59 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
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