This is part 2 of 3 about the shootout between Hank Vaughan and a man named Charlie Long in Prineville, Oregon in 1881. Hank was an outlaw in his own right, albeit a widely known character in Oregon. He was pardoned by the Oregon governor at least once, fought a bear, bought, bread and sold monkeys in the wild west, and lived a hard driving, hard drinking kind of life.
Now who was Charlie Long?? There isn't s lot of information out there on this man. He was rough, sure. But his identity is still mysterious. Some have wrongly asserted he was a man who died in 1895 in Washington, but we have evidence otherwise.
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