Texas Billy and Squirrel Tooth Alice
Episode description
Wild West Podcast proudly presents "Texas Billy and Squirrel Tooth Alice." This true story begins in Abilene, Kansas, when Billy Thompson arrives after a long cattle drive from San Antonio, Texas. Billy Thompson, known as "Texas Billy," decides to take in an evening of entertainment and meets up with Elizabeth Haley, a young lady of 15 who has chosen a dancehall life. A relationship builds between them, and Billy helps run the Bull's Head Saloon, co-owned by his brother Ben Thompson and Phil Cole. However, after a gunfight ensues between Bill Hickok and Phil Cole leaving Cole, dead Billy leaves Abilene on a cattle drive back to Oklahoma. Elizabeth and Billy soon join up with Ben Thompson, Texas Billy's brother in Ellsworth, Kansas. However, the story spins out of control after Billy Thompson is arrested on June 30, 1873, by John Morco for carrying a weapon in town limits. Soon after Billy's arrest, a disagreement breaks out between Marco and Billy Thompson, leaving Sheriff Chancey Whitney dead in the streets of Ellsworth, Kansas.
The story written by Mike King provides the actual accounts of a twenty-five-year relationship between a gambler and a well-known prostitute as they travel through Dodge City and into a new settlement named Hide Town, Mobeetie, Texas, where Bat Masterson is shot.