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
Davis Tutt staggered forward, shouted, Boys, I'm killed, and keeled over dead.
What's long been considered the very first gunfight of the old Western frontier took place three months after Appomattox, that is, three months after the end of the Civil War, on July 21, 1865.
It happened in the scraggly village of Springfield, Missouri, down toward the state's southwest corner, just before six o'clock at the beginning of a warm Friday evening.
Around the town square, a crowd had formed.
As everyone watched, two men stepped out into the open.
Both were gamblers in town.
They had argued over a pocket watch one of them seized from the other to satisfy a poker debt.
The man who took the watch was a tough character named Davis Tutt.
The other gentleman, the one who wanted his watch back, had greasy shoulder length hair and a nose so long it almost reached his upper lip.
His name was James Hiccock.
Later, once he got famous, he acquired the nickname you might know him by, Wild Bill.
Wild Bill Hiccock.
They stood maybe 75 yards apart.
Hickok hollered for Tut to return his watch.
History doesn't record Tut's reply, but the watch, shall we say, was not forthcoming.
The two men, both wearing holstered pistols, Tut in a leather duster, stood frozen for a long moment.
Suddenly, without a further word or exchange between them,
Both drew their guns and fired.
This is Gunfighters, brought to you by Tacovas, good boats for good times.
My name is Brian Burrah, and I'll tell you how this all ended in just a second.
Showing 281–300 of 583 · page 15 of 30
← Previous
Next →