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You have me thinking of Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill... I think you might be thinking of Ned Buntline, the dime novelist who helped make them famous...and whom the Buntline revolver is named after???????
Then I have you thinking correctly. Ned Buntline was my fellow.
The first subject pursued by Buntline was Wild Bill Hickock, the one who ran him out of town.
May I horn in here, please? I have a "current events" trivia question. Since yesterday was the anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald and there is an interesting discussion in the Michigan thread about it and other notable shipwrecks, it got me to wondering if anyone here could name the first Great Lakes shipwreck, the date and location.
Thats a tuffee!!!! looked up info and there is a claim of over 8000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Some credited to the entrance of the St Lawrence etc...many sunk/salvaged etc...definition of sunk has a wide definition in terminalogy...as I saw a ship at the bottom of canal while tied to the pier with its upper decks above water due to the shallow canal. Would love to read up...too much history info...did you find a name?. Steve
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I was born in 1903 to a South Carolina Tobacco Farmer. I recieved a Law Degree from the University of South Carolina, but practiced law only a short time, I prefered enforcing the law. My boss got jealous of my fame and forced me out of a job.
I went back to being a lawyer, and served as a colonel in the US Army during WWII....
May I horn in here, please? I have a "current events" trivia question. Since yesterday was the anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald and there is an interesting discussion in the Michigan thread about it and other notable shipwrecks, it got me to wondering if anyone here could name the first Great Lakes shipwreck, the date and location.
You would have to quality this somehow---there must have been canoes lost by fur trappers long before there was any cargo shipping on the laies. First steel ship, be before that there were wooden ships, so first powered ship, but before that there were sailling ships, and on and on until you have Pere Marquette saying "Sacre Bleu" when his canoe foundered.
Yes, I just found Melvin Purvis, too, but I don't think he was very famous.
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