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Rising waters and growing debts sparked a shooting. The first appointed town marshal of Blende City, Lane Britton, hadn’t worked out, so town officials tried again in May 1883, hiring Amos “Doug” Norton, an impertinent, unyielding 22-year-old newlywed. Blende City, in Missouri’s Jasper County, was a rich zinc- and lead-mining community with a rowdy element …
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