"The Jersey Lily" was the tagline of British actress and singer Lily Langtry, the late Victorian counterpart to Madonna. She figures in the plot of the wonderful 1940 film, "The Westerner" starring an unusually taciturn (even for him) Gary Cooper as a resourceful defendant and a fiesty Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean..."Yup, I got a lock of her hair." A tour of the America in 1882 carried her and her fame across the country. Of course, it is a long way from west Texas to Ingomar, MT. Ms. Langtry was a mistress of Edward VII for a few years when he was PoW thus having a direct association with an avid shotgun enthusiast...
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