"Porter Rockwell killed more outlaws than Wyatt Earp, Doc Holladay, Tom Horn, and Bat Masterson combined, earning him the menacing title, the “Destroying Angel.”
Because he was Mormon (and a controversial figure) Hollywood has not given him his due. Wyatt Earp has 15 Hollywood movies about him, Rockwell, none.
He was also reputed to have killed many men as a gunfighter, as a religious enforcer, and Deputy United States Marshal. It is said that Rockwell once told a crowd listening to United States Vice President Schuyler Colfax in 1869, “I never killed anyone who didn’t need killing”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Rockwell
Your comparison of Rockwell to Chris Kyle is ridiculous.
Kyle was acting as a soldier for the country, Rockwell was acting as an enforcer for the mormon church against non-believers.
Blood Atonement in the Mormon Church
"It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.... There are sins that can be atoned for by an offering upon an altar, as in ancient days; and there are sins that the blood of a lamb, or a calf, or of turtle dove, cannot remit, but they must be atoned for by the blood of the man." (Sermon by Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, pages 53-54); also published in the Mormon Church's Deseret News, 1856, page 235)
Porter Rockwell was a “US Marshall” ???????
First the Mormons would have to recognize the US as a legitimate government which they didn’t...
And then Rockwell would have to be for law and order and for protecting innocent lives and property... which again..he wasn’t...
He was a thief and a murderer..a Charles Manson of his day X10
He was no more a US Marshall than the Islamic terrorists of today are...the terrorists that do the same thing he did...kill innocent men, women and children who are Christians and not his religion..Mormonism
Rockwell was Joey Smith’s “Avenging Angel” He murdered Christians in cold blood..
The Severed Heads Campaign
Brutal, but true, the little-known account of the U.S. Army paying for beheadings during the ferocious Apache Wars.
Without question, the best magazine I have ever read.