Texas George Look Gem Saloon Owner DS, Present at Gunfight with Wyatt Earp

1p, measuring 8.25" x 6.75", El Paso, Texas, dated April 5, 1892. A promissory note, No. 3, in which Look agrees to pay $75.00 to Mae Laws Bramhall and Anson Dudley Bramhall "on or before three years after date I promise…" The amount was a partial payment for "the East forty one (41) feet front on Sonora Street by eighty-six (86) feet and eight (8) inches deep, in the north west quarter of Block number Forty six (46) according to the map of El Paso, Texas…" With docketing on verso.

Accompanying the document is a legal summons, 2pp, measuring 8" x 13", El Paso, Texas, dated September 1894, directing the El Paso Sheriff to summon George Look for a suit concerning two promissory notes, one being the above described. Faint soiling and toning. Two small punches were made to the top margin of the promissory note. Overall very good.

George Look (1854-1917) was the proprietor of the Gem saloon in El Paso, having come to Texas from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Gem, like several other Old West saloons, is remembered as the site of a famous gunfight. On April 4, 1885, one of the saloon's patrons, former lawman William Polk Rayner, was mortally wounded by Robert Bates "Cowboy Bob" Rennick. Rayner had been drunkenly harassing patrons before he confronted Rennick. One of the witnesses to the murder was none other than lawman Wyatt Earp, who testified about the event the next day.

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