According to Cochise County Deputy Sheriff, Billy Breakenridge, Zwing Hunt was one of the worst outlaws in that hell-for-leather county. He came from Texas and was from a good family but somewhere along the way he went bad.
He arrived in Arizona with another hellion named Billy Grounds. For a spell Hunt worked as a cowboy for the Chiricahua Cattle Company but soon turned to outlawry. He and Billy

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