Leather Britches Smith
The man known as Charles Smith, AKA Leather Britches, wore a pistol on each hip and carried a rifle everywhere he went. A man of dubious character, reportedly brought in as a "hired gun" by Arthur L. Emerson, then president of the Timber Workers. He was considered by some to be a hero and benefactor of timber workers.
The legend of Leather Britches varies. He was thought by some to be a good man, until he drank, when a different side of him would emerge. Rill (Loftin) Grantham stated that Leather Britches saved the man that was to become her husband from hanging shortly after the Grabow Riot. Many just avoided him and some stories tend to portray him in less than nice way.
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Famous quotes containing the words leather and/or smith:
“What shall he have that killed the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing him home.
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn,
It was a crest ere thou wast born;
Thy father’s father wore it,
And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away?”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)