Showdown At High Noon: Difference between revisions

**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.

**What did often happen was that an angry person would spontaneously reach for his gun forcing would-be target to do so. This does not really qualify as dueling as it is not prearranged according to tradition. It is better called mayhem. The movie version is basically a merging of this kind of street fight, and the real life traditional Western duel which is just the [[Ten Paces and Turn|Eastern duel]] with some of the ceremony streamlined out.

 

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