Richard "Two Gun" Hart (ENCORE)
The Wild West Extravaganza
Wild West Josh
4.8 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | By the mid-1920s, Al Capone was the undisputed kingpin of Chicago, which at that time was one of the most powerful crime syndicates on planet Earth. |
| 0:41.4 | And what's more, he was expanding operations. |
| 0:44.5 | Not only did Capone install a satellite crew in Sioux City, Iowa, but he also took control the rackets down in Omaha and Kansas City. |
| 0:51.6 | To paraphrase historian, Jeff McArthur, the only thing truly standing in the |
| 0:55.4 | way of Al Capone's Midwest ambitions, was an overzealous Nebraska lawman known as Richard |
| 1:00.5 | Two-Gunhart. A man said to be both fearless and incorruptible. The mysterious heart had cut |
| 1:06.9 | his teeth working cattle down in Oklahoma, where he claimed to be half Native American. |
| 1:11.3 | He served with Fowler during the Great War, and once back stateside, he pinned on a |
| 1:15.0 | marshal's badge in the tiny town of Homer, Nebraska. |
| 1:19.2 | And even in Nebraska, Hart stood out like a sore thumb, like something straight out of a |
| 1:23.8 | Hollywood Western. Rather than dress in fedoras and polished shoes, Hart instead opted for a |
| 1:29.2 | 10-gallon cowboy hat and riding boots. He preferred traveling via horseback as opposed to automobiles, |
| 1:35.2 | and even his weapons of choice for throwbacks to the old days. A pair of well-oiled single-action |
| 1:40.6 | revolvers slung low around his hip. And when the Volstead Act made the production of alcohol illegal, Hart began hunting down |
| 1:47.4 | bootleggers with a wild abandon, so much so that he'd go down in history is one of the |
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