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Following Phil Coe’s Trail to Death

by | Apr 7, 2021 | Departments, Renegade Roads

Have fun trailing the Lone Star outlaw from Texas to Kansas. Charles E. Rankin, retired editor of the University of Oklahoma Press and astute historian of key figures of the Old West, posed a question a while back when we were having lunch and discussing James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok. “What the hell was Phil Coe thinking?” We agreed on the answer. “He wasn’t.” [caption id="attachment_1025


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