Bryan Burrough
speaker
583 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 4d ago
Bryan Burrough’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 2.
Appearances
An awful lot of the time, in fact, both shots miss.
It's always more interesting though, to me at least, to hear about all the times when the rules broke down, which was like all the time.
There was a duel where one of the duelists claimed he was nearsighted, so the two guys faced off just five feet apart.
When they reached out to fire, their guns actually overlapped.
As you can imagine, in that case, nobody missed.
Both men died instantly.
Seriously.
You cannot make this stuff up.
The lower social classes got into fights over honor too, of course, but here things tended to be a little less, shall we say, genteel.
Formal duels among poor folks were rare.
Instead, what you got was hand to hand fighting of the nastiest kind, crotch kicking, arm breaking, leg breaking, mouth tearing.
Men got their ears and noses bitten off.
Some lost their eyeballs.
Eye gouging actually got so out of hand they had to pass laws against it in Virginia and Kentucky.
Georgians especially were renowned for this kind of thing, like for growing out their fingernails and sharpening them.
Some in Tennessee took a bit of a shortcut and just clipped on metal devil's claws, which were said to take off half a man's face in a single swipe.
The nature of all this changed as the South began to grow toward the West.
Dueling spread with the frontier, and it was usually this scrapping, ultraviolet flavor of duel that took hold.
The type of folks who'd risked it all in the fringes of the new country did not tend to be overly concerned with formality.
It's here in early Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, early Tennessee, early Missouri, that you can begin to see dueling evolve into gunfighting.
Showing 201–220 of 583 · page 11 of 30
← Previous
Next →