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I am follicly challenged (ala Telly Savalas). Were there any bald-headed folks of note in the Old West?

by | Mar 3, 2009 | Inside History

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I am follicly challenged (ala Telly Savalas). Were there any bald-headed folks of note in the Old West? Joe Rios Adkins, Texas Since men covered their heads with hats back then, we tend to think they all had thick manes, but baldness was as common then as it is now. Certain famous guys, like Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill, wore their hair long (not for comb-over purposes, so far as we know). Burt Alvord, a Willcox, Arizona, constable-turned-train robber, was bald headed. The late grassroots h


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