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Bad Bill Longley

by | May 8, 2019 | Ask the Marshall, Departments, True West Blog

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Bill Longley has been called one of the deadliest of gunfighters, unpredictable, ruthless and quick with both his gun and temper. His ambition to be “badder” than John Wesley Hardin was his prime motivator. Many of his victims were Blacks, carpetbaggers and those he suspected of being Yankee sympathizers. Ex-Confederate soldiers and Southerners, mad at the harsh treatment handed them by Northern carp


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