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In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West's first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernhard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what could the two events possibly have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights like Hickok's. When faced with a deadly thre
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- Author
- Richard Maxwell Brown
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429407366
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Law, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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