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Waco,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
31° 32' 45.43701",
-97° 4' 30.81614000016"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
The city of Waco in the 1890s divided into two armed camps over the caustic criticisms of William Cowper Brann (1855-1898) in his magazine, The Iconoclast. A gifted writer, Brann attacked many organizations, especially Baptists and Baylor University. This controversy sparked a duel in 1897 between Judge George Bruce Gerald and James W. Harris. A Baylor partisan, Tom E. Davis, met Brann here, within a half block of the earlier fight, and shot him with a Colt .45 revolver. Brann returned the fire. Both men died the following day from their wounds.
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Brann-Davis Shootings Historical Marker Location Map, Waco, Texas
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