New Skits at Sixgun City
This is actually old news but since I have been so dang busy I just have not had time to post any of the things I have been meaning to for some time now. Heck, I still have not even made a logo for the blog yet!
If you have ever been to Six Gun City in the past then you know we do a 35-40 minute show. This is not counting the 10-15 minutes or so of narrative stories about the history of Tombstone, the people who lived there and events that took place there. Up until recently the skits in the show were:
- Luke Short and Charlie Storms
- T.J. Walker and E.L. Bradshaw
- The Breakfast Cowboy
- Buckskin Frank Leslie and the Shooting of Billy Claiborne
- The Commancheros
Well about a month or so ago now the show was changed slightly. The Breakfast Cowboy skit was dropped and two new skits were added in its place:
- The Shooting of Marshal White
- The Shooting of Lester Moore
The Marshal White skit was added because the cabin he lived in used to sit on what is now part of Six Gun City’s grounds. It was located approximately where the kitchen is now.
On the night of October 28 1880, just two days short of a year before the Gunfight at the OK Corral, Marshal White left that cabin to investigate a ruckus in an empty lot just up Allen Street. When he got there he found five cowboys and among them was Curly Bill Brocius. Marshal White tried to relieve Curly Bill of his six shooter and was accidently shot in the process.
The Bird Cage Theater, which was opened by one William Hutchinson on December 25, 1881 (almost exactly three months to the day after the Gunfight at the OK Corral), was later built on that lot.
Our skit starts with Curly Bill Brocius ‘treeing’ the town and ends, of course, with Marshal White being shot.
The other new skit is of the events surrounding the death of Lester Moore who was forever immortalized by the epitaph on his tombstone which reads “Hear lies Less Moore. 4 Shots from a 44. No Less. No More.”
I actually had never known what caused that shooting to take place until we stated doing this skit. Apparently ol’ Lester was making some deliveries for the Wells Fargo company and the recipient of one of the packages he was carrying was quite upset about the condition in which it arrived. It was in particularly bad shape having been badly damaged in a stage coach accident before being delivered. Words were exchanged and a gun battle, which left both participants dead in the streets of Tombstone, ensued.
If you have not been to Six Gun City recently then the next time you visit you should swing by Six Gun City and see the show again so you can catch the new skits.
