His bravado and willingness to back it up was the stuff of legends. Bullet to the back of the head may have been the only way to take him down.
Sevabiggest surprise from the Lincoln bio I'm reading. The dude just loved to get into fistfights. He's cornered by a gang after beating their leader and yells: “I’m the big buck of this lick!” And they back down! Who knew the great emancipator had a little WWE in him?