Anyone who knows much about the Texas Rangers* knows that Capt. Hughes became a leftie when his right arm was badly damaged; and he became feared for his proficiency as a leftie with his SAA.
And anyone who knows much about the Myres buscadero belt knows that because of this, Capt. Hughes devised the belt with Sam.
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Can't be true.
A few days ago I'm perusing the now familiar story, this time in an autobiography by Sam's namesake son, Samuel Dale Myres, Jr., PhD. Oh, yeah, 1920s -- and the alarm bells started ringing. Pulling a copy of Lone Star Ranger by Parson about Hughes, this injury occurred 50 years earlier!
So the Myres legend would have us believe that Hughes waited a half century and some years after he retired in 1915 (forced out, actually) to create something to deal with his injury? He'd killed a lotta men by then and a story, perhaps apocryphal, in a period newspaper indicates the retired Hughes had to hide his SAA because men were no longer allowed to be armed in Texas cities.
And this image, which I have touted as being of Hughes in a buscadero? I finally parsed the words correctly, in the caption: the holster is hanging from the shoulder strap, for much the same reason as the Sam Browne was invented -- and the visible trousers belt is worn over the assembly; the holster is not attached to the belt at all! I do believe I owe Lobo a 'mea culpa' on that one.
* my own familiarity is very limited. JB was the big western fan and I'm a child of the James Bond era. It was researching the Threepersons holster that led me into such a large database of info about the Old West in general and the Rangers' contributions in particular, to gunleather holstory.
Capt. Hughes and the Buscadero belt
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