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“Ain’t Suited for the Government”

by | Jul 13, 2018 | True West Blog

Commodore Perry Owens is best known for killing three men in a Holbrook, AZ gunfight in 1887. He reportedly had a number of additional notches on his gun handle. That might seem a bit odd, for Owens brought up in a Quaker family in Central Indiana. And the Friends are people of peace and nonviolence. Owens himself explained the conundrum in an 1894 interview with the Indianapolis News: “I


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