The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: Last night I posted a photo of a saloon in Helena, Texas. In the 1800s, Helena was known as the toughest town in the west. Helena town was the birthplace of the so-called Helena Duel, in which the left hands of two opponents are tied together with buckskin and each fighter is given a knife with a three-inch blade—too short to reach a vital organ or cause a single fatal stab. After the combatants are whirled around a few times, they slash away at each other until one bleeds to death from the accumulation of cuts and stabs. Crowds of spectators would view this gory, gruesome spectacle and even bet on the outcome.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:30:33 +0000
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