Gunfighters were a product of their violent times and for that reason one should not be too judgmental when it comes to their shortcomings and transgressions. Noted gunfighter authority, Joseph Rosa wrote, they were "part man, part myth, based on the exploits of a breed of men spawned in the war with Mexico in 1846. In adolescence they witnessed the California Gold Rush of 1849, the Kansas-Missouri border wars of the 1850's and during the Civil War reached maturity fighting as guerrillas on both
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