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I actually worked with a guy that was related to him. He refused to say much but I would say the line of genes were different than most.

Sure took a long time to take care of, if all he's alleged to have done and the timeline is accurate.

That b**** ain't Missouri St Louis big difference

Dad lived outside of West Plains for several years as a boy/young man his dad was born in Mo. He lived in several other states and always said MO folks saw things somewhat different, never in a bad way just not like other places.

I remember when this happened and us talking about it, he wasn't surprised it had happened or that no one talked about it to outsiders

Same here. That's the point of my original post. That SOB would have simply disappeared earlier and for less, in most places in MO. You really piss off folks here, you got it coming, and what or who you are doesn't matter. If the lights went out here for long, we'd be back to Hatfields and McCoys in a flash. The mentality still exists, it's just under wraps with most folks.

Don't mess with my kinfolks my dogs for my dirt

The saying was that Skidmore had the largest pool table in the country, as every resident said they were hiding under the pool table when the shots rang out.

True story ...that was there story and they stuck to it...

Some reading this thread may think the Missouri attitudes described may be just bluster and baloney. I lived down in Dent County for eight years. I can assure you that the attitudes and descriptions in this thread have basis in fact. Treat folks right and with respect and they were.... for the most part....real good folks. Mess with them more than once or twice and real trouble can come your way.

Just one of dozens of stories.... I shot a snapping turtle down at my pond one morning.... an hour or two later, I had three kinda owly guys at my door asking about their recently gone missing coon dog. They were not happy and certainly accusatory. I was an outsider and they thought I might have shot the dog. Sure glad I wasn’t that guy.

The Skidmore incident fits right in with attitudes I observed.

One more comment: I was living in Missouri at that time. After the shooting, there was a certain amount of virtue-signaling outrage expressed in the St Louis news and also a fair bit on the national news.... “How could this happen? Taking the Law into their own hands? A killing?”

The FBI responded and I remember an FBI agent on television telling folks the fbi was going to camp in Skidmore and not leave until the apprehended the perpetrator. Said they would surely get to the bottom of it....Sure.....They lasted only 6 months and then left.

You know what they say about STL in the Ozark's? Sheeeeaattttt... (spit tobacco juice now).

There you go lumping everybody together down in this area we're not all alike.........
Some of us don't chew

SkidMark perhaps?

My Mom's family, a couple generations back, came from the Skidmore area. Grandfather was born in Burlington Junction, 2x great grandfather is buried in Quitman. Never met 1x or 2x great grandfathers, but if they were anything like my grandfather, they marched to the beat of a much different drum than most folks. Grandfather was a bitter, curmudgeon of a man and died in 1960. I was always told by grandmother he was that way after getting mustard gassed and returning from France in WWI. After reading some accounts of what went on in this area in this thread, I'm not so sure that was the whole story.

I moved to Missouri in 1960. History is never the whole story.

I had never heard of this before this thread. I've been doing some reading about it. Quite the interesting story.

Get the book. It is even better than online stuff.

I used to sell lots of firewood to a retired Mo State Trooper . wonderful old man .He was from over on the east side of the state and moved over to my side of Missouri . We were talking one time after I delivered him a load of oak and he said something about this area { The Burnt District ] and said , The history books sure were right --- theirs some hatred still left around here . Some of my best friends had family murdered by the Redlegs . An old woman in town , her Grandad was also shot in the back by them . Quintrell and Bill Anderson as well as the Younger brothers were very active within a mile or two frommy own farm as I write this . It's still dangerous to outside dickheads ! I sure love this place though . God Bless Missouri , the greatest state in the nation .

Another thing , there's an old graveyard a couple miles from me that has my old ancestors who have birthdates pre-1800 . Yep , I come from an old family around here .

Soooooo you're psychotic? lol