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Sharpshooter
Most of us are familiar with the phrase "I'm Your Huckleberry" from the Tombstone movie. However, being sick at home I was hunting around Amazon Prime TV shows and saw that they had the very old western TV program, Yancy Derringer available. The show aired from 58 to 59 and starred Jock Mahoney at a New Orleans gambler and adventurer three years after the Civil War.
This is the part that perked my ears up as I was half listening to the end of the first program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yancy_Derringer
Since its been 50 years since I last saw the program I guess I know why I forgot about the expression
This is the part that perked my ears up as I was half listening to the end of the first program.
Widely respected by all parts of New Orleans society, as a southerner who never surrendered, Derringer is recruited by the Federal City Administrator, John Colton, to work as a secret agent at no pay, and only Colton knows of his special role. Often at the beginning of an episode, Colton, a former Union Army colonel, asks Yancy to help solve New Orleans' present threat and, often at the end of the episode, he arrests Yancy for breaking the law to do it. Yancy agrees to be Colton's "huckleberry," because Yancy felt the United States should be one nation again. Huckleberry was just one of many unique southern slang terms creator Richard Sale brought into use during the show. One slang definition of Huckleberry is man, guy, or fellow, as in "I'm your huckleberry."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yancy_Derringer
Since its been 50 years since I last saw the program I guess I know why I forgot about the expression