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Thank you for that link, I lost my copy in the hurricane and miss it.
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I picked up this autographed copy at a gun show in Kalispell for $35.00... ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/gun%20related%20items%20and%20articles/IMG_4052_zps0f751db3.jpg) I think Elmer charged me $20 for mine. ![[Linked Image]](http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p262/DocFoster49/042_zps59fd3570.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p262/DocFoster49/039_zpsbf9f959f.jpg)
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Just wanted to post and say thanks to Bristoe for posting the link to this book.
I have spent the weekend reading it, and it is so much better than the copy of Sixguns that I downloaded to my kindle.
I had no idea that Keith was older than my grandfather, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
Thanks again,
Joel
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I apologize up front for reviving this older thread however, it appears that the link in the OP is no longer working. I have looked high and low to find a .pdf of "Hell, I was There" and I figured that if anyone could help, it would be you all...
If someone has it downloaded and would be willing to email a copy to me, please let me know and I'll shoot you my address by pm.
Thank you all in advance and have a great day.
John
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I have no use for the blowhard. I'll give him the shrewd businessman wink though. Same here. Painful to read in my opinion. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I have no use for the blowhard. I'll give him the shrewd businessman wink though. Same here. Painful to read in my opinion. Travis If you'd known him, you'd have liked him. He was quite a man.
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I have no use for the blowhard. I'll give him the shrewd businessman wink though. Same here. Painful to read in my opinion. Travis If you'd known him, you'd have liked him. He was quite a man. I wondered if I would have liked EK in person, and I doubt it. the books of his that i've tried to read are almost to the point of being moronic.
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Captbutch, thank you for the links to the Gun Notes excerpts. Do you know of a full .pdf for "Hell, I was There?"
Thank you in advance,
John
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I met Elmer Keith in the Peterson's Magazine booth at the SHOT Show in St. Louis many years ago. Up till that point I believed like others that he was a loud raucous blow hard. I couldn't have been more wrong, he was rather quiet and soft spoken, a true gentleman from an earlier age. I have read and enjoyed several of his books and own a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum manufactured just a few months later than the first one that S&W sent him. Great man, great gun, great cartridge.
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The link didn't work for me.
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I own his book "Sixguns" and that's about all the bloviation I can handle.
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Just found this. I've read it a few times many years ago. My copy got ruined when my apartment flooded. Anyway, it's a very good read. https://archive.org/stream/Hell_I_W...There_Elemer_Keith_Autobigraphy_djvu.txtHere is one of my favorite passages from Elmer Keith talking about his childhood. It gives me a good laugh every time. One evening Si and I had herded the
cattle through town, put them in the stock-
yard, and we had just shut the gate when a
big Negro came running towards us. He
scared us. My brother could run like the
wind, and I never could run good, so Si soon
left me. Well, the big black man kept right
after me. I seen that I couldn't outrun him,
and I had a slingshot in my hip pocket with
some good dime rubbers I'd bought at the
drugstore. In another pocket I had a bunch of
.36 caliber Colt round balls. To get them, we
had dug the babbitt metal out of the boxes on
the axles of the Santa Fe freight cars and run
it in this old .36 Colt mold.
Those .36 Colt round ball molds made very
good ammunition for the slingshot. One day I
killed three cottontails and a quail with this
outfit. Seeing that the man was going to catch
me, I jerked the slingshot out of my pocket,
unwound it and put a bunch of .36 balls in
my mouth, put one in the bed and just as I
figured he was going to get me, I whirled
around, pulled it to my ear and let him have
it, right in the face.
I saw his two front upper teeth go. They
clicked quite loud. He grabbed his face with
both hands hollering, "Oh, lawdy" and stag-
gered around behind a spring wagon. THAT's gonna leave a mark!!!
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I've read that when O'Connor saw him coming at a gun show he'd nudge people and say, "Look, here comes Mr. Bullshit."
But if you actually enjoy reading poorly written tall tales.....by all means, BUY his book, don't look for ways to get it free.
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Mr. Gutshot.
Whilst I am a firm believer in paying for what I get, this book is long out of print with (as far as I am aware), no plans of reprinting; hence, my search for a .pdf copy. Those points notwithstanding, if a copy were available for reasonable cost, I would gladly pay for it. Are you perchance aware of a copy at or near the original cover price?
Thank you in advance and have a great day.
John
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I picked up this autographed copy at a gun show in Kalispell for $35.00... been 20 yrs since i loaned my copy out and never got it back'
God bless Texas-----------------------
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I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
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It's offered on Amazon.
Plenty available.
What's the problem?
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The comparison between O'Connor and Keith was simple:
O'Connor was highly educated, Keith was not
O'Connor vacationed in rough country, Keith lived in it
O'Connor went on guided hunts, Keith guided hunts
O'Connor was a supercilious elitist, Keith was down to earth
Just my two cents, never met either man, although I saw Elmer once when he was old and frail. Read just about everything either one wrote.
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