AS SEEN ON:'Stories Of The Century'
AS PLAYED BY:
Donald Curtis
John Peters Ringo (May 3, 1850 – July 13, 1882), better known as Johnny Ringo, was a cowboy who became a legend of the American Old West because of, among other things, his affiliation with the Clanton Gang in the era of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona. That group of outlaws was known commonly as "the cow-boys" around Tombstone, and Ringo himself was called "the King of the Cowboys". However, beyond verbal confrontations, he took no part in those events.
Ringo was occasionally erroneously referred to as "Ringgold" by the newspapers of the day, but this was not his name, and there is no evidence that he ever deliberately used it.
Ironically, despite his fame and notoriety, there are no records that he ever actually had a single classic gunfight, shooting unarmed men not counting. Even his violent death may have been at his own hand. By comparison, companions such as former Texas Ranger turned outlaw Scott Cooley, who is little known today, better fit the title of "gunfighter" than did Ringo.
(from Wikipedia)
BCnU!
I seem to remember that CBS had a series titled Johnny Ringo that ran in the '59-'60 season. Of course, I also seem to recall it had very little to do with the real Ringo.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Ringo was also featured in the Doctor Who episode "The Gunfighters," set in Tombstone around the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
ReplyDelete--Hugh