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10 Infamous Deadly Real-Life Gun Slingers of the Wild West
Am Shooting Journal ^ | 12/14/2017 | J Hines

Posted on 12/14/2017 9:42:11 AM PST by w1n1

Gunslinger and gunfighter historically refers to men in the American Old West who had gained a reputation of being dangerous with a gun and had participated in gunfights and shootouts.

Gunfighters range from different occupations including lawman, outlaw, cowboy, exhibitionists and duelist, but are more commonly synonymous to a hired gun who made a living with his weapons in the Old West. Here are the top 10 real-life deadly gunslingers from the wild west era.

Tom Horn Jr.
was a scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century American Old West.
Horn allegedly killed his first man in a duel — a second lieutenant in the Mexican Army, whom he killed as a result of a dispute with a prostitute.

Billy the Kid
was an American Old West gunfighter who participated in the New Mexico Territory’s Lincoln County War of 1878. He is known to have killed eight men.
He was portrayed as a cold-blooded killer, history shows that he actually entered a life of crime out of necessity, not meanness.
According to historians people who knew him called him brave, resourceful, loyal, and possessing a remarkable sense of humor.

Doc Holliday
was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp. He is best known for his role as a temporary deputy marshal in the events leading up to and following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
After being diagnosed with tuberculosis at age 15, he took up gambling and acquired a reputation as a deadly gunman.
He rode with Wyatt Earp during the infamous ‘Vendetta Ride’, and is known to have killed no less than 10 men.

Wyatt Earp
was an American Old West gambler, a deputy sheriff in Pima County, and deputy town marshal in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, who took part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw cowboys. Considered one of the most famous lawman of all time and an accomplished gunslinger.

Curly Bill Brocius
was a gunman, rustler and an outlaw Cowboy in the Cochise County area of the Arizona Territory during the early 1880s.
Brocius had a number of conflicts with the lawmen of the Earp family, and he was named as one of the individuals who participated in Morgan Earp’s assassination. Read the rest and complete list of the 10 deadly gunslingers of the wild west here.


TOPICS: History; Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
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To: Redcitizen

Luke was also over in Tombstone. Its amazing why he gets left out of all the stories and movies. When Wyatt Earp went back to Dodge City with Masterson and all the others in their old group threatening bloodshed against the Mayor, it was all over unfair treatment to Luke Short who was also a saloon owner like the Mayor.

He was actually a better dresser than Masterson who he somewhat emulated.


21 posted on 12/14/2017 5:15:12 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Bookshelf; atc23; w1n1
Jeff Kidder .
22 posted on 12/14/2017 5:22:51 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: w1n1

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.


23 posted on 12/14/2017 10:08:03 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

LOL! Yep, I reckon pardner!.


24 posted on 12/14/2017 10:21:01 PM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: spincaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YG2hNqPTes Living in the west-Bellamy Brothers


25 posted on 12/14/2017 10:30:26 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: w1n1

Did anybody recognize the guy in the right of the photo? It’s DeForest Kelly, AKA Leonard “bones” McCoy from Star Trek.

CC


26 posted on 12/15/2017 4:35:53 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Reagan wore the White hat.


27 posted on 12/15/2017 6:18:18 AM PST by cowboyusa
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