
Henry Brown rode with Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County War, then after cowboying in the panhandle of Oklahoma he became a respected city marshal in Kansas. He still had a wild streak, though, and on a weekend hunting trip he joined three other ne’er do wells and attempted to rob the nearby Medicine Lodge, Kansas bank. Captured, a lynch mob broke into the jail and shot Brown and hanged his co-horts on April 30, 1884.
Related Posts
-
Bud Ballew (left in photo) was an Oklahoma lawman and gunfighter with numerous notches in…
-
Texas Lawmen, 1835-1899, by Clifford R. Caldwell and Ron DeLord (History Press, $29.99), focuses on…
-
A gunfight outside Blackwell, Oklahoma just proved that lawmen didn’t always get the right man.…
In 1999, Bob Boze Bell and partners bought True West magazine (published since 1953) and moved the editorial offices to Cave Creek, Arizona. Bell has published and illustrated books on Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, as well as Classic Gunfights, an Old West gunfight book series. His latest books are The 66 Kid and True West Moments.