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Post by Wayne Land on Sept 5, 2018 10:59:05 GMT -5
Why would a man named Oliver Pleasant Roberts get a nickname like "Brushy Bill"? Maybe the "Bill" part is because his real name was William and not Oliver?
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Post by wannabe12 on Sept 7, 2018 23:52:46 GMT -5
Frank Boardman Eaton, as you know was "Pistol Pete", so the nickname doesn't always originate with someone's real name.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2019 2:37:12 GMT -5
I'm reminded of one of my favorite authors C.S. Lewis who wrote A GRIEF OBSERVED under the alias N.W. CLERK and only a British person who understands literature would understand that alias literally means "no one knows the author".
Brushy, clearly means a person living in the shadows. William Roberts, is a shadowy figure. It could possibly be that maybe William Roberts is the alias after all. Or it could just mean to everybody "in the know", just ask for Brushy Bill Roberts and that's Billy Bonney, living in the shadows of his true name.
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Post by garyabc on Apr 14, 2023 15:59:44 GMT -5
whats in a name?
The problem with the frontier and aliases.
If you were known as Billy in Dodge then went on the dodge and called yourself James in Deadwood someone would eventually show up and call you Billy. Kinda happened to James B Hickock too.
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Post by garyabc on Apr 14, 2023 17:31:26 GMT -5
Sorry. Misunderstood the question.
Brushy said they called him Brushy because he spent so much time in the sage brush/regular brush.
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