Bryan Burrough
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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.
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The duel itself was no big deal.
Both guys fired, both missed.
But afterward, a brawl broke out.
Bowie was there as a second.
The job of a second, you'll recall is to keep cool.
In the post duel brawling, though, Bowie was repeatedly shot and stabbed.
He got the better of his attacker with a
Help of a massive knife, more like a short sword.
Somehow the papers back east heard about all this, and overnight Bowie and his giant knife became celebrities.
The Bowie knife became a popular weapon in duels in the Frontier South and further west.
There are entire books you can read just about buoy knife duels.
Along with many more debt written and distressed Southerners, and in his case, eager to avoid federal investigations of his land fraud, Bowie went west himself into Texas.
And there, after surviving gun battles with Native American tribes, he became a leader of the revolt against Mexico and famously died at the Alamo.
With the rise of the legal system and the beginnings of actual law enforcement, dueling began to tail off during the eighteen fifties.
By the end of the Civil War, it was actually pretty rare.
As you heard in the last episode though, the duel that marks the beginning of the gunfighter era is While Bill Hiccock's face-off with Davis Tut in 1865.
It was in almost every respect a classic Southern duel.
Only this time the two men used revolvers.
Hickok might not have taken out a newspaper ad or posted his challenge at the tavern, but he clearly did announce his challenge.
The run up to the fight was all very public.
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