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It was a short story by Samuel Wiggins, General Delivery, San Juan, California. It was called ‘Coldwater Gatling’, and it began like this: ‘Coldwater Gatling wasn’t looking for trouble but you never can tell about those Arizona rustlers. Pack your cannon high on the hip and lay low when you seen one of them babies. The trouble with trouble was that trouble was looking for Coldwater Gatling. They don’t like Texas Rangers down in Arizona, consequently Coldwater Gatling figured shoot first and find out who you killed afterwards. That’s how they did it in the Lone Star State where men were men and women didn’t mind cooking for hard-riding straight-shooting people like Coldwater Gatling, the toughest man in leather they had down there.’