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The writer Brian Burrow says there is actually a moment you can point to in the history of the old West of the very first gunfight.

Now, it wasn't actually the first, but he says it was the moment when this infatuation would take hold of the country.

He told us it happened late in the afternoon of July 21st, 1865.

This was just three months after the end of the Civil War.

This was in the center of the Scragly Village of Springfield, Missouri.

The two men who stepped into the square just before 6 p.m.

was a young man who had been a Confederate scout named Davis Tut,

and a man who had been a union scout named James Butler Hickok,

more commonly known later in life as Wild Bill Hickok,

and they were there because they had had a disagreement over a gambling debt.

In a photograph, Tut has cat eyes and a goatee.

That day, by one account, he wore a long-weathered duster. By all accounts, he was carrying a pistol and also faithfully a gold pocket watch, a Waltham model. When they met there in the

square that day, Hickok had warned Tut that he had to give him back his watch.

That day, by most accounts, Hickok had a cold navy revolver in his hands.

By all accounts, he wanted his watch back.

And everybody around town understood what that meant because the crowd had formed, right

there and from the courthouse.

Everyone, it appears, understood what had to happen.

Some versions say the two men turned and stood sideways, cutting their eyes toward the other

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