Showdown At High Noon: Difference between revisions

*More often averted then played straight. Dueling tended to follow [[Ten Paces and Turn|the same rules]] as the East while random mayhem could be any way to do a man to death. Obviously criminals would not fight like gentlemen and lawmen would not waste their lives fighting mere criminals without backup so occasions for this trope were uncommon. In point of fact the favorite tool of gunslingers was the shotgun.

**The [[Knife Fight|Bowie]] was closer to being the [[National Weapon|regional innovation]] in dueling for the West then the "Highnoon quick draw". Westerners were in general less formal about how they killed each other then Easterners. However the Eastern methods never really lost favor until dueling itself had lost favor. They had a [[Good Old Ways|tradition behind them]] after all. In any case it would be absurd for a lawman to want to give an outlaw a fair chance as if he was a gentleman; for one thing it would be imprudent; more to the point it would imply that the outlaw stands equal in respectability.

 

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