Elmer keith wiki

By John Taffin

Elmer was born right at the end of the frontier period on March 8, in Hardin, Missouri, and consequently knew many Civil War veterans and gunfighters in his early years.

In fact, he recounted learning to shoot a handgun from a former gunfighter turned barber, shooting at the patterns in the linoleum in the back of the barber shop.

In , Elmer was burned terribly in a hotel fire in Missoula, Montana, and carried scars for the rest of his life.

An ordinary man would have died from the fire.

Elmer keith wiki

His entire body was covered with burns and his chin was "welded" to his right shoulder with his left hand turned upside down on the back of his left wrist.

Elmer recounted this: "When we moved from Missoula back to Helena I was considerable of a wreck.

My left hand was just turned upside down and back on my wrist, just a claw extended from the top of my wrist. I used to wrap a towel around it when Father sent me to school so the girls wouldn’t cringe at the sight of