So, David Barton, in an article on his WallBuilders website, has finally responded to the question of where he got the story he told on Glenn Beck's web-based TV show about a classroom full of gun-toting elementary school students saving their teacher from a gunman in the 1850s. As suspected, the story did come from Louis L'Amour's novel Bendigo Shafter. But Barton, who incessantly claims to use only primary sources, and constantly accuses anyone who criticizes him of not using primary sources (even when they do), defends his use of the story because L'Amour, in a recorded introduction to the audio version of one of his other stories, said it really happened:
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