LUKE SHORT - GUNMAN & GAMBLER

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Luke Short is best remembered as an Old West gunman & gambler. Short was at one time half ownwer of the famed Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City where he was a major participant in what has become known as the Dodge City War. Later, in Tombstone Arizona, Short killed Charlie Storms in a gunfight outside the Oriental Saloon. The killing of Storms was later ruled as self defense. Luke Short, a close friend of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson & Doc Holliday, occupies a major place in Cochise County history. Like his friend Doc Holliday, Short died with his boots off, succumbing to congestive heart failure at the age of thirty nine.

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