Clint Barkley, alias Bill Bowen, was an in-law of Texas feudists the Horrells. He was
arrested in Lampasas, TX in March 1873 for illegally carrying a gun. The law officers
ran into the Horrells en route to the jail. When the gunsmoke cleared, four of the lawmen
were dead. Barkley returned the favor two months later when he and others broke Mart
Horrell and three men from jail.
Barkley and the cl

True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus