Hiding out in the bootheel of Southwestern New Mexico, stage robber Bill Leonard and three cowboys—“rustlers”—are eating dinner in a store with “six-shooters alongside their plates and their rifles lying in their laps.” Leonard is drunk and has been threatening he’s going “to shoot the Haslett boys on sight,” states an anonymous New Mexico correspondent in his June 12, 1881, letter to the Tombstone Daily Epitaph. Warned of the death threats, brothers Ike and Bill Haslett g
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