Long vilified as a treacherous lawman, Texas Ranger Frank Hamer survived 52 gunfights, was wounded 23 times in the line of duty and, he was declared dead, not once, but twice. Think about this: if you added up all the gunfights that Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok participated in, you would come out with perhaps 21 fights. I say “perhaps,” because some of these historic fights are controversial, to say the least. At any rate, Hamer had more gunfights than three of the Wild We

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