John King Fisher is not as famous as some of his contemporaries but all agree he was a good man with a gun. He was arrested for stealing a horse at the age of sixteen but managed to get away. He also did a short stretch in prison for burglary. By the age of eighteen he was known as a bad man to tangle with. He settled in an area called the Nueces Strip, a lawless area between the Nueces River and the Rio
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