In the webcomic Achewood on 25 January 2006, this website is featured. It was available at the time of publication, and in order to prevent the unseemly use of this address, I (a mere fan of the comic) registered the domain.
— Plutor

Dirty Dutch Coldrell

From The Great Outdoor Fight

Jump to: navigation, search

"Dirty" Dutch Coldrell (1850-1904) was a participant in the 1877 Great Outdoor Fight. He was the first combatant to be recorded as entering a Dutch fugue, and indeed the condition is named for him.

Condrell was a Dodge City native. Coldrell, a rancher, had been in in fights before but was unprepared for the sheer brutality of the Great Outdoor Fight. On day one of the Fight, Coldrell ended up going hand to hand with his best friend, Cool Hand McCabe. In the ensuing fight, Coldrell twisted McCabe's skull right off his body (McCabe was officially 2,873rd Left Standing, that year). The ensuing shock put him into a Fugue which lasted almost twenty seven hours. During that time, Coldrell brought down ninety-seven men, including eighteen fatalities. He dropped from exhaustion on Day Two and was eliminated soon afterward.

In an interview afterward, Coldrell described his Fugue as "standin' outside your own body, watchin'. You know you should care... should be down there, but it all seems so terrible... it all seems so wrong... that all you can do is watch from afar while your body takes care a'business. Part of me was horrified that I couldn't seem to control myself. But part a'me wishes I'd never come back, neither."

[edit] Record

  • 1877 - eliminated day 2, 984th left standing.
Retrieved from "http://greatoutdoorfight.com/index.php/Dirty_Dutch_Coldrell"
Personal tools