According to Cochise County Deputy Sheriff, Billy Breakenridge, Richard “Zwing Hunt,” was one of the baddest of the bad hombres in that hell-for-leather county. Absolutely fearless and an excellent shooter, it was said of Hunt, “He would do to go tiger hunting with.”
Hunt came from Texas and was from a good family but somewhere along the way he took the wrong fork in the road. He arri

True West March/April 2025
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- The Bowie Knife
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- King of the Scatterguns
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