Where’s John Wesley Hardin? He killed more men in personal combat during gunfights than anyone else in the Old West.
It is said that my great grandfather was given plenty of "personal space" because of this notorious escort.
We used to think this was a cock and bull story, but recently the story somehow got corroborated. Details escape me.
Knew Cousin Jesse would make the list.
One old family story is Frank James would come at night to visit with great grandpa. Great grandma wouldn’t allow him in her house so they’d have to visit outside.
John ‘’Doc’’ Holliday was a failed dentist and invenerate gambler. He was also a violent alcoholic. Far from being champions of justice men like the Earp’s, Bat Masterson and others were really men who played both sides of what could be considered the law in the 19 century and by today’s standards none of them would ever be fit to be a law enforcement officer.
King Fisher was the leader of a notorious band of outlaws in the Nueces Strip of S. Texas next to the Mexican Border. Acciused of rape, robbery, murder, rustling, he had political control of a wide swath of S. Texas. He was killed in an ambush in a salooon in San Antonio with another famous gunfigher of the day, his friend Ben Thompson.
Note DeForest Kelley (as Morgan Earp, IIRC) in that old movie promo pic, on the far right. Probably the only actor to have appeared on both sides of the O.K. Corral gunfight, sort of.
Did anybody recognize the guy in the right of the photo? It’s DeForest Kelly, AKA Leonard “bones” McCoy from Star Trek.
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