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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.
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Excellent and surprising article. Read the article to find out who Two Gun Hart was related too.
To: Mean Daddy
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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.)
To: Mean Daddy
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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")
To: Mean Daddy
Must have a subscription to read
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:07:20 PM PDT
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hoosiermama
(When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
To: hoosiermama
I just read it for free. Maybe it is one of those 10 stories free a month papers.
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:11:57 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Mean Daddy
That was one interesting story. Makes one wonder if the Clint Eastwood movie Bronco Billy was based on it.
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:13:54 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
To: PAR35
I am on cell Maybe that’s the problem.
Going straight to chase. Who is his relative ?
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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)
To: Mean Daddy
Buckskin Betty.
I think I dated her a few times.
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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)
To: hoosiermama
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:24:05 PM PDT
by
Mean Daddy
(Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
To: Mean Daddy
Fascinating. Thank you for posting the link.
To: Mean Daddy
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:28:25 PM PDT
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hoosiermama
(When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
To: hoosiermama
Al Capone.
Makes sense. Both were intelligent, talented men.
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:28:33 PM PDT
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marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: marktwain
It also make sense why he hid the relationship !
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03/26/2017 6:29:57 PM PDT
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hoosiermama
(When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
To: Mean Daddy
That was well done - thanks for posting!
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:31:01 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: hoosiermama
Scarface Al Capone was his brother.
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03/26/2017 6:40:00 PM PDT
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PAR35
To: hoosiermama
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).
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03/26/2017 6:44:12 PM PDT
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PAR35
To: Paladin2
So the analogy would be Clark’s lost brother is Jesse Jackson?
To: Mean Daddy
Nice read, thanks! Sometime someone should tell of Elmer Keith...
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:58:05 PM PDT
by
W.
(Bock, bock, bock!)
To: hoosiermama
To: PAR35
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posted on
03/26/2017 6:59:59 PM PDT
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hoosiermama
(When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT A)
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