COLOSSAL CAVE One of the saltiest gunmen who ever lived was a Jewish Irishman named James Levy. He was just an ordinary guy working as a miner up in Pioche, NV. On May 30, 1871 he witnessed the street shooting of Jim Gossan by Mike Casey. On his deathbed Gossan made a bequest of five thousand dollars to the man who avenged him by killing Casey. At the inquest Casey claimed self-defense, but Levy testified that Casey shot first. Casey challenged Levy to a fight and during the gunplay Levy grazed Casey in the skull, then shot him in the neck, and was busily bashing in his skull with his empty gun when a friend of Casey’s, Dave Neagle, ended the assault by shooting Levy in the jaw. Casey died, but Levy recovered, was
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