They met that March 11, 1884, in Austin, Texas, by chance or plan ... we don’t know for sure. But their meeting was to be an historic and a tragic one.
Ben Thompson and John King Fisher were two of the most notorious gunfighters of the Old West. Bill O’Neal ranks them number eight and 10, respectively, in his book Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters; sandwiched between them is Billy the Kid at nine, and they are well ahead of Wyatt Earp. Thompson and Fisher were widely known in their ow
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