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Think you know the true story of Sheriff Woody? Think again. Not the white-washed, "rootin' tootin" Disney version...Here now, is the true story of Sheriff Woody...*
The following is taken from Wikipedia.
Woodrow "Woody" Pride was born in the Dakota Territories in 1849. His father, Thomas, was a miner of dubious reputation (and who was afflicted with a cleft palate) and his mother was a half-breed Lakota, who may or may not have consented to the union that produced Woody.
Woody grew up in the shadows of the mining towns and shanties in the Dakota Territories. His father taught Woody how to swear and little else and left the family when he was 6, never to return. Woody's mother, Built-Like-A-Bear, contracted smallpox and died on his 7th birthday.
A distant uncle, Hanks, (who was a strict Lutheran) adopted Woody and brought him to Fargo, where he spent the remainder of his youth being beaten for blasphemy and impure thoughts.
Tired of getting the tar beaten out of him, Woody rebelled and upon his 14th birthday, ran away. Eventually, Woody fell into a lifestyle of robbery, whoring and thieving with a group called the "Round up gang." The leader of the gang, "Stinky Pete," was a former miner, (with a club foot) and confirmed psychopath who liked to use a pick axe on his victims.
Woody robbed and raised hell with the Round up gang until his beloved horse, Bullseye, was killed, when someone poisoned the waterhole that the gang used. Woody accused Stinky Pete of the murder, a charge that Pete didn't deny. Stinky Pete declared that "This town ain't big enough for the two of us" (a statement Woody found odd because the gang was holed up in a canyon at the time) Woody fled, vowing revenge, but not before Pete hit him over the head with his pick axe, causing moderate brain damage.
Woody would have surely perished, were it not for the shepherd, "Bo." Bo was a not all together uncomely lass (save for her rather pointy chin and manly name) and Woody fell in love with her. As it happened, she was also a strict Lutheran and Woody once again found God.
At Bo's urging, Woody turned his life around and became the sheriff of the town of Pixar (Lakota for "money") South Dakota. Woody was a successful lawman, even though he frequently lost his gun due to his brain damage. Credit for his success is certainly in part to his trio of deputies, Buzz Lichtjahr ( a German immigrant and amateur astronomer, who Woody would recall as his favorite deputy), Irishman, Patty O'Brian (affectionately called "Mr. Potato head" and Rex. Rex was an unapologetic coward, born with extremely short arms.
In 1879, Stinky Pete made the mistake of trying to rob the stage coach into Pixar. Woody and his deputies (except for Rex, who'd fled in a panic and explosive diarrhea) confronted the Round up gang. Woody got the draw on Pete and ordered him to reach for the sky. By now, Pete, who was old and mostly infirm (and oddly had developed a second club foot), complied. Woody would have none of it and shot Pete 47 times, claiming self defense.
Woody, Buzz and his other deputies achieved moderate notoriety in penny novels,which Buzz himself wrote under the pseudonym, Lassiter.
Woody remained the sheriff of Pixar until his retirement in 1901. On August 13th 1911, Woody complained to his wife, Bo, that he felt like there was a snake in his boot, even though he had been wearing slippers at the time. Bo tried to comfort him, but Woody was inconsolable. Woody looked at his wife, and yelled "Ride like the wind, Bullseye!" and died of a massive aneurysm.
Woody Pride is buried in Emeryville, California.
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