Did guys actually exist in the Old West who made their living as bounty hunters?
Steve Drake
Gladewater, Texas
Bounty hunters were a varied assortment of mankind. On the frontier, bounties were offered for animals, Indians and outlaws. The most famous bounty hunter was Jim Kirker, a former mountain man, who found he could make far more money working for the Mexican government in the 1830s and ’40s collecting Apache scalps than he could skinning beaver. He led a band of hell-for-leather scal

True West January/February 2025