Red Umbrella Project #40:  Gunslinger

The gunslinger sculpture at the NRA Whittington Center was created by George Montgomery, who wa a painter, furniture maker and sculptor as well as a western actor.  Supposedly Ronald Reagan was the model for this one, but Montgomery also based work on John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and his wife Dinah Shore.

gunslinger

 

Gunfights are daily occurrences in Tombstone, the town "too tough to die."  Re-enactments of the days of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday happen in various saloons and the OK Corral.  The reason parking is free is because everything else charges admission!  Except Boot Hill - you can wander there without charge.  But the cemetery also appears as a re-enactment.

 

Tombstone, Arizona