September 30, 2024
There is a certain Old West story that has always kind of repulsed me, but I have to admit, those crazy brothers were not to be trifled with. Hell, they are the only prisoners I have ever heard of where a mob stormed the jail to kill them and the brothers killed the armed attackers! Whoa! The Marlow brothers were not to be messed with, period!
Wanted to finish this today, but still have an hour more to go.
As the story goes, William H. Wright picked up a copy of Life of the Marlows by Glenn Shirley in a Los Angeles bookstore in 1953. Thinking that it would make the basis of a good Western, he paid members of the Marlow family $1,000 (about $11388.06 when adjusted for inflation several decades later) each for the rights to make it into a screenplay. But when the movie was made 12 years later, the film's plot had been drastically changed and apparently the Reno brothers were the ultimate inspiration for the revised story. Also, Kate Elder, is Doc Holliday's old lady's handle and so we have that connection as well. If any of this story sounds vaguely familiar you might remember a movie called The Sons of Katie Elder.
What was I working on
Five Years Ago Today?
Daily Flashback Scratchboard Whip Out:
"Four Stars Over Apacheland"
Four is a magic number among the White Mountain people an it shows up in all their myths and stories.
Meanwhile, I have a friend who is almost as crazy as I am for good hats.
He is also a pretty decent reference for a certain old vaquero.
"If you realize you are a fool, you are halfway to not being a fool."
—Old Vaquero Saying
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