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Roy Suggs
Ed is the youngest Suggs brother, after Dan and Roy. Along with his brothers and Frog Lip, he lives as an outlaw in Indian Territory. After they steal Wilbarger’s horses and murder Wilbarger, Chick, and various unnamed cowboys and settlers, he is executed alongside his brothers and Jake Spoon by Call, Pea Eye, and Deets for his crimes.
Ed Suggs Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Ed Suggs or refer to Ed Suggs. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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It was funny how one shot could make a man’s reputation like that. It was a hip shot Jake made because he was scared, and it killed a Mexican bandit […]. Jake shot blind from the hip, with the sun in his eyes to boot, and hit the bandit right in the Adam’s apple, a thing not likely to occur more than once in a lifetime, if that often.
But it was Jake’s luck that most of the men who saw him make the shot were raw boys too, with not enough judgment to appreciate how lucky a thing it was. Those that survived grew up told the story all across the West [… about] what a dead pistol shot Jake Spoon was, though any many who had fought with him through the years would know that he was no shot at all with a pistol and only a fair shot with a rifle.
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Ed Suggs Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Ed Suggs or refer to Ed Suggs. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
Quotes
It was funny how one shot could make a man’s reputation like that. It was a hip shot Jake made because he was scared, and it killed a Mexican bandit […]. Jake shot blind from the hip, with the sun in his eyes to boot, and hit the bandit right in the Adam’s apple, a thing not likely to occur more than once in a lifetime, if that often.
But it was Jake’s luck that most of the men who saw him make the shot were raw boys too, with not enough judgment to appreciate how lucky a thing it was. Those that survived grew up told the story all across the West [… about] what a dead pistol shot Jake Spoon was, though any many who had fought with him through the years would know that he was no shot at all with a pistol and only a fair shot with a rifle.
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