Thanks for the book links, Matthew.
After reading more I do not believe I would have called him friend nor approved of him at all.
ramblingbob has a very entertaining "palaver" about King Fisher:
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"One contemporary of Fisher described him thus “Fisher was the most perfect specimen of a frontier dandy and desperado that I ever met. He was tall, beautifully proportioned and exceedingly handsome. He wore the finest clothing procurable, the picturesque, border, dime novel kind. His broad-brimmed white Mexican sombrero was profusely ornamented with gold and silver lace. His fine buck-skin Mexican short jacket was heavily embroidered with gold. His shirt was the finest and thinnest linen and open at the throat, with a silk handkerchief knotted loosely about the wide collar. A brilliant crimson shah wound about his waist, and his legs were hidden by a wonderful pair of Chaparejos or chaps as the cowboys called them– leather britches to protect the legs while riding through the brush.”
As you can see the old boys had a flair for words back when. I would like to interject here the the chaps mentioned were made out of a tiger skin. This is from a second book, and I remember reading some 45 years ago that he acquired the hide when they way-laid a small traveling circus. King Fisher was intrigued by the caged tiger and shot it and had it skinned and a pair of chaps made for him from the hide."
After reading more I do not believe I would have called him friend nor approved of him at all.
ramblingbob has a very entertaining "palaver" about King Fisher:
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"One contemporary of Fisher described him thus “Fisher was the most perfect specimen of a frontier dandy and desperado that I ever met. He was tall, beautifully proportioned and exceedingly handsome. He wore the finest clothing procurable, the picturesque, border, dime novel kind. His broad-brimmed white Mexican sombrero was profusely ornamented with gold and silver lace. His fine buck-skin Mexican short jacket was heavily embroidered with gold. His shirt was the finest and thinnest linen and open at the throat, with a silk handkerchief knotted loosely about the wide collar. A brilliant crimson shah wound about his waist, and his legs were hidden by a wonderful pair of Chaparejos or chaps as the cowboys called them– leather britches to protect the legs while riding through the brush.”
As you can see the old boys had a flair for words back when. I would like to interject here the the chaps mentioned were made out of a tiger skin. This is from a second book, and I remember reading some 45 years ago that he acquired the hide when they way-laid a small traveling circus. King Fisher was intrigued by the caged tiger and shot it and had it skinned and a pair of chaps made for him from the hide."