Craig Brewer Fairdale, New York Zwing Hunt is one of the more interesting characters in the Tombstone saga, but there is no known photo of him. He came from Texas and reached Arizona with a cowhand named Billy Grounds (Boucher) around 1880. He was a free spirit, running with Curly Bill Brocius and his bunch. Absolutely fearless and an excellent shooter, Zwing “would do to go tiger hunting with,” it was said. He and Grounds were suspected of rustling and thought to be involved in a murder. A

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- A True Country Brew
- Did Frank James die in the last shoot-out with the Ford that was still living?
- Who was Billy Wilson?
- Do you think Custer was seeking glory at Little Bighorn? And would he have turned down a presidential nomination if offered?
- Was Tom Horn a hired gun in the Pleasant Valley War?
- Following the Arkansas River
- Are there pictures of Zwing Hunt?
- As a girl in Kingman, Arizona, I took music lessons from Mrs. Cole, whose husband Walter told me he had been The Tombstone Epitaph editor and that he coined the phrase “Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die.”
- Did the Indians really use smoke signals or is that something out of Hollywood?