HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL/COULD'VE SHOT HORSE!

     A few of you may remember the TV western "Have Gun Will Travel." It was about a gunslinger named Paladin and played by Richard Boone. In one re-run I caught on TV this AM also featured a bad guy played by Charles Bronson in his younger career.

       There was a shoot-out at the end between Paladin and Bronson. They were careful to make sure the door was closed and that the family inside knew not to come out and get hit. However, right behind Paladin stood two horses hitched up to a rail. Paladin killed Bronson and Paladin was only grazed in the shoulder. 

        I don't know why I notice stuff like the two horses right behind Paladin, but, in most Westerns horses don't get killed even in the big chase scenes. Maybe later they did , but, it was like some kind of code. Ya don't kill women, children, dogs, and especially horses even if they are in the line of fire!