Who shot Liberty Valence?

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 23 Mar 2006 12:58 PST

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"But none of it could have happened without the removal of Liberty
Valance... Ranse confronts him and the bullets fly but the bullet that
actually drops him comes from another Winchester in the shadows...
Ranse goes to Washington on the strength of ridding the territory of
Liberty Valance, but he knows that the shot was fired by another man."
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"...In the end, Valance, who has lived by the sword, dies a violent
death at the hands of Tom Doniphon. And the latter, after realizing
that he has killed a man in cold blood and that he has lost Hallie to
Stoddard, self destructs; he starts drinking heavily, and sets his
house as well as his life on fire.

And Stoddard? What happens to him? He becomes famous because everyone,
except for Hallie, thinks that he is the man who shot Liberty Valance,
and he gets the girl and goes on to have a successful career in
Washington. But without the help of noble, and honest men like
Doniphon, men like Stoddard wouldn't have been able to survive in the
West."
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Rainbow~

The bravest man of all, of course...

Liberty Valance didn't die in the shootout as is commonly supposed; he
wasn't even wounded because he was wearing body armour.

The undertaker swapped bodies before the ride to Boot Hill and it is
actually Bignose Billy Golightly who lies beneath the famous
tombstone.

Liberty rode off in the sunset to Bimini, where he found peace and
happiness with Joy Le Joy, a former prostitute.

Liberty died of old age and his last words were 'To hell with legends
printed in newspapers'.