PotBelly Jim
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I agree that there's a lot that went on that didn't make it into print. I've always been ambivalent about what came out of the Holmes camp, and that ambivalence centers on what happened out at Tortilla Creek.
For me, the Tortilla Creek incident did happen- it is in the right place. It is on the way to the canyon that the Two Soldiers got lost in.
Ambivalence regarding any of these stories is something I totally get

Regarding stuff that doesn't make it into print...about 99.999% of human history, if I had to guess.
If the Holmes/Tortilla Creek incident was just a "little" off in the retelling, it could explain alot. For example, Waltz saying with exasperation: "Dick, don't you know men have been killed for what you did?" can easily become "Do that again and I'll kill you."