Wild West

KID KEEPS LAUGHIN’

didn’t look much like Paul Newman, Kris Kristofferson, Emilio Estevez or any of the other actors who portrayed him in film. For one thing he had those imperfect choppers. “The Kid used to have buckteeth that made him look like he was laughin’ when he wasn’t,” recalled Fort Sumner (N.M.) tour guide Old Man Charlie Foor in Walter Noble Burns’ popular 1926 book . “It kind o’ gives you

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