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In Search of the Real Curly Bill

by | Aug 28, 2017 | Features & Gunfights

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Amazingly, historians know so little about the most famous cow-boy in Cochise County history—“Curly Bill” Brocius. In a journal entry written in October 1881, George Parsons called the man “Arizona’s most famous outlaw.” We don’t know where he came from, when he was born, his real name. Pretty much nada. One story we do know comes from the celebrated lawman Wyat


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