Dick Lloyd was one of the Cochise County Cow-boys, a tough guy with a hair trigger. But he rode into trouble in March 1881.
Drunk, feisty and just off a cattle drive, Lloyd and some pals went into O’Neil’s saloon in Ft. Thomas (photo). He shot and wounded former justice of the peace Ed Mann. Lloyd then got his horse and tried to ride into the bar. Some accounts say Curly Bill Brocius

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows