Frank James - The Old Shoe Salesman

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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It’s safe to say that a career as an outlaw doesn’t lend itself to a long life. Billy the Kid was only twenty-one years old when he was killed. Cherokee Bill a year younger. The notorious Bloody Bill Anderson not yet twenty-five. Jesse James, Joaquin Murrieta, Rube Burrow, Bill Longley, the list goes on. Not a one of them over the age of forty. But of course, there are exceptions. Not ALL of the west’s most dangerous men died young. Nor did they simply disappear at the turn of the 20th century. Some of ‘em stuck around and tried to adapt. This is one such story - someone you have most definitely heard of. A true legend of the old west; a killer. And yes, a shoe salesman. Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Become a YouTube Paid Member for bonus content! https://www.youtube.com/c/WildWestExtravaganza Join FREE Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	The old shoe salesman wasn't his surprise he used to be. A fact, his aching and cracking joints
0:35.8	made abundantly clear each and every morning as he climbed out of bed.
0:39.6	But he found that once he got a few cups of strong coffee in him, he didn't feel all that bad.
0:44.9	Real coffee. Not chickery.
0:47.5	Morning cup of Joe, notwithstanding, the old shoe salesman still wasn't moving briskly enough to suit the loudmouthed customer he was currently
0:54.3	attending.
0:55.5	Don't you know who I am?
0:56.9	The blowhard bellowed.
0:58.4	I'm Bill Dugans, and I got a mind to bust you upside the head you don't find me the boots I want.
1:03.7	Yikes.
1:05.2	Obviously, whoever said that the customer is always right never worked retail, and they certainly
1:09.8	never encountered the likes of
1:11.2	Bill Dugans.
1:12.8	Now, I don't know what this Dugan's character looked like, but I'd be willing to bet he was
1:16.6	on the bigger side.
1:18.2	Kind of man used to throwing his weight around and bullying those that were physically smaller
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