Gun Slinger (1920)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> 28 November 1920, Indianapolis  Star, pg. 8, col. 4:
> William Farnum will be the attraction at the  Keystone this week in “Drag
> Harlan,” filmed from the story by Charles Alden  Seltzer. Farnum is seen as “the
> two-gun man from Pardo,” a feared and notorious  gunfighter. That his title
> as an outlaw is undeserved, but that his skill as a  “gun slinger” is by no
> means overrated, is developed in the story.

Here's slightly earlier:

1920 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 14 Nov. (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
He was a "gun slinger," bearing close relationship to the type of cowboy 
that existed in the old days of the far west, but who now is extinct save 
for pictorial perpetuation on the moving picture screens.

Fred Shapiro


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