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The Wild West Extravaganza

The Shootout at Hide Park

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8667 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There are two things you just don’t discuss in a beer joint: politics and religion. The reason being these topics tend to be a bit divisive. You add alcohol to the mix and things could get downright ugly. As was the case one sweltering August evening in Newton, Kansas. 1871. Two lawmen named Mike McCluskie and Billy Bailey got into a heated argument that turned physical and – ultimately – deadly. What followed was a quest for revenge that led to one of the deadliest gunfights of the Old West – the Newton Massacre, also known as the Shootout at Hide Park. Also discussed: John Wesley Hardin and Doc Middleton.   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Newton, Kansas | Hide Park - https://hchm.org/author/hchm-curator/   Newton’s General Massacre - https://hchm.org/newtons-general-massacre-truth-myth/   A Boy Named Riley - https://hchm.org/fact-fiction/   Who Was Allegro? - https://hchm.org/many-of-our-readers-will-remember-allegro-the-bloody-duel/   What Happened to Hugh Anderson? - https://hchm.org/texas-cowboy-desperado-businessman-hugh-anderson/   Fiction Book Recommendations - https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza?listId=2H6WTE0CNW87P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There's two things you just don't discuss in a beer joint, politics and religion. Reason being,

0:35.3

these topics tend to be a bit divisive. You add alcohol to the mix

0:39.0

and things could get downright ugly, as was the case once sweltering August evening in Newton,

0:44.0

Kansas, 1871. Two kind of sort of lawmen by the names of Mike McCluskey and Billy Bailey

0:49.8

got into a hated argument over, you know what, Politics. One thing led to another and the pair

0:55.0

took the throwing hands. It wasn't long before both men tumbled out of the red front saloon

0:59.4

and commenced the fighting, dropped there in the thoroughfare. By this point, the Ohio-born

1:03.7

McCluskey, a former night watchman for the railroad, had the upper hand on Bailey. And well,

1:08.8

I guess he decided to keep it that way. Not leaving anything

1:11.4

up to chance, McCluskey pulled his revolver and fired twice, one of the rounds striking Billy

1:16.0

in the chest. The wounded man leered, but not for long. The following day, Bill Bailey would make

1:21.2

his final pilgrimage through death store. We'll likely never know the specifics as what Mike and

1:26.4

Bill were arguing about. And I guess it doesn't really matter.

1:29.4

Just one of the countless drunken saloon killings that took place across the American frontier in the latter part of the 19th century.

1:35.9

But what makes this fight so interesting is what would follow, a quest for revenge that led to one of the deadliest and most mysterious gunfights of the Old West.

1:45.4

My name's Josh, and this is the Wild West extravaganza.

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