Two Experts Weigh In Randolph Farmer sets out to explain the man behind a legend in “Curly Bill:” Horse Thief, Cattle Rustler, Murderer, Lawman 1858-1909. Like others before him, myself included, Farmer contests Wyatt Earp’s claim that he killed Curly Bill Brocius in Arizona during 1882. Farmer further proclaims that William A. Brosius—yes, Farmer claims that’s the correct spelling of his name—was Curly Bill, that Brosius married in 1883 and that he lived a long, productive life i


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