A Deadly Affair

Buckskin Frank’s passion was a bit too hot…

Buckskin Frank Leslie was having an affair with the married Mae Killeen in 1880. Her husband Mike was not pleased. On June 22nd, Mae was sitting with Frank on the porch of Tombstone’s Cosmopolitan Hotel when Mike Killeen made the mistake of confronting the hot-tempered gunman. When the gunsmoke cleared Killeen was dead on the ground. A week later Frank married the “grief-stricken” widow. Frank and the widow Mae split the blanket in 1887, allegedly after she tired of him making her stand against a wall while he traced her silhouette with bullets from his six-shooter.