Bill Longley born into a strong Christian family, he turned bad during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period has been called one of the West’s deadliest gunfighters. A racist, unpredictable, ruthless, quick with both his gun and temper. It’s said his ambition to be “badder” than John Wesley Hardin drove him to kill.
During the late 1860s, while riding with the Cullen Baker gang in Arkansas, Longley escaped hanging by vigilantes for stealing horses. After they strung him up and were
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