Primetime Cuppa

 

1980’s TV remembered.

Programme i have been watching recently – available through Amazon Prime – The Young Riders.

Late 80’s early 90’s Western series based on the Pony Express – with some great portrayals.  Young stars Stephen Baldwin and Josh Brolin playing real life Pony Express Riders and Wild West legends Bill Cody and James Hickok (Buffalo and Wild Bill) Great characters and great story lines.  There is even a female rider (albeit pretending to be a boy

Truths –

The have timelines right – Teaspoon having been at the Alamo (25 anniversary) and being a Texas Ranger tie into the time frame of the programme.

The Pony Express did favour employing orphan boys as riders, there was, however, no known female rider.  Women did play a big role, as shown, in running the stations.

 

The looming civil war and the factors causing friction, even among the friends, is again correct.

Both Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill did ride for the Pony Express and were friends.  Cody was would become a famous showman (his love of books, writing, showmanship is often shown) and Hickok would become a famous gunman (again shown in the series) some say the best of them all and one of the few to have a recorded fast draw gunfight.

Wild Bill Hickok had a famous quick-draw duel with Davis Tutt on July 21, 1865, in Springfield, Missouri. Considered by many historians as the first true, one-on-one "quick-draw" showdown in the West, they faced off at about 75 yards in the town square over a gambling debt, with Hickok killing Tutt in one shot.

 

 

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Quote to ponder    Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall

Confucius