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Buckskin Frank Leslie – A Good Man with a Gun

by | Jul 27, 2016 | True West Blog

Nashville “Buckskin” Frank Leslie joined the pariahs of Tombstone’s raucous society around 1880. Although he was only 5’ 7” and weighed 135 pounds Frank acquired a reputation as a good man with a gun. His nickname came from the buckskinned-fringed jacket he always wore. Frank’s early years were spent as an Indian scout for the Army in Oklahoma, Texas and Dakota during the 1870s. Nobod


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